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64 - TEXAS ALMANAC.
SEC. 16. Each House may punish by imprisonment during the sessions, any per-
son not a member, for disrespectful or disorderly conduct in its presence, or for ob-
structing any of its proceedings, provided such imprisonment shall not, at any one
time, exceed forty-eight hours.
SEC. 17. The doors of each House shall be kept open.
SEc. 18. Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which they may be sit-
ting, without the concurrence of both Houses.
SEc. 19. Bills may originate in either House, and be amended, altered, or rejected
by the other; but no bill shall have the force of a" law, until on three several
days it be read in each House, and a free discussion be allowed thereon, unless,
in case of great emergency, four fifths of the House in which the bill shall be pend-
ing, may deem it expedient to dispense with this rule; and every bill having passed
both Houses shall be signed by the speaker and president of their respective
Houses.
SEc. 20. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representa-
tives, but the Senate may amend or reject them as other bills.
SEC. 21. After a bill or resolution has been rejected by either branch of the Le-
gislature, no bill or resolution containing the same substance shall be passed into a
law during the same session.
SEC. 22. Each member of the Legislature shall receive from the public trea-
sury a compensation for his services, which may be increased or diminished by law;
but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such
increase shall be made.
SEC. 23. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which he may
be elected, be eligible to any office of profit under this State which shall have been
created, or the emoluments of which may have been increased during such term ; and
no member of either house of the Legislature, during the term for which he is elected,
although he may resign his seat as such member, shall be eligible to any office or
place, the appointment to which may be made in whole, or in part, by either branch
of the Legislature. Nor shall members of either House vote for a member of their
own body, though he resign his seat in the same, for Senator in the Congress of
the United States. Nor shall members thereof be capable of voting for a member
of their own body for any office whatever, except it be for Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and President for the time being of the Senate, who shall be
elected from their respective bodies.
SEC. 24. No Judge of any Court of law or equity, Secretary of State, Attorney-
General, Clerk of any Court of Record, Sheriff, or Collector, or any person holding
a lucrative office under the United States or this State, or any foreign government,
shall be eligible to the Legislature, nor shall at the same time hold or exercise any two
offices, agencies, or appointments of trust or profit under this State; -provided,
that officers of the militia to which there is attached no annual salary, the office
of Notary Public, and the office of Justice of tne Peace, shall not be deemed lucra-
tive; and that one person may hold two or more county offices, if so provided by
the Legislature.
SEc. 25. No person who at any time may have been a collector of taxes, or who
may have been otherwise intrusted with public money, shall be eligible to the Le-
gislature, or to any office of profit or trust under the State Government, until he
shall have obtained a discharge for the amount of such collections, and for all pub
lic money with which he may have been intrusted.
SEC. 26. Ministers of the Gospel, being by their profession dedicated to God and
the care of souls, ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions ;
therefore, no minister of the Gospel or priest of any denomination whatever shall be
eligible to the Legislature.
SEC. 27. Elections for Senators and Representatives shall be general throughout
the State, and shall be regulated by law.
SEC. 28. The Legislature shall cause an enumeration to be made every ten years,
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The Glaveston News. The Texas Almanac for 1867 with Statistics, Descriptive and Biographical Sketches, etc., Relating to Texas., book, December 1866; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123772/m1/36/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.