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02 THE TEXAS ALMANAC.
SE. 20. Senators and representatives shall in all cases, except in tresi,.
felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during the sessio of
the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the same, allowing one
day for every 25 miles such member may reside from the place at which the
Legislature is convened.
SEc. 21. Each house, during the session, may punish, by-imprisonment,
any person not a member, for disrespectful or disorderly conduct in its pre-
sence, or for obstructing any of its proceedings; provided such imprisonment
shall not, at any one time, exceed 48 hours.
SEc. 22. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except upon a call
of either house, and when there is an executive session of the Senata
SEC. 23. 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
sitting, without the concurrence of both houses.
SEc. 24. 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 free discussion be allowed thereon,
unless, in case of great emergency, four-fifths of the house in which the bill
shall be pending, 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: Provided, That the final vote on all bills or joint
resolutions, appropriating money or lands for any purpose, shall be by the
yeas and nays.
SEC. 25. The Legislature shall not authorize, by private or special law,
the sale or conveyance of any real estate belonging to any person, or vacate
or alter any road laid out by legal authority, or any street in any city or vil-
lage or in any recorded town plat, but shall provide forthe same by general laws.
SEC. 26. After a bill or resolution has been rejected by either branch of
the Legislature, no bill or resolution, containing the same substance, shall be
passed into a law during the same session.
SEC. 27. The Legislature shall not authorize any lottery, and shall prohibit
the sale of lottery tickets.
SEc. 28. Each member of' the Legislature shall receive from the public
treasury a compensation for his services, which may be increased or dimin-
ished by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the
session at which such increase shall be made.
SEC. 29. No senator or representative shall, while a member of the Legis-
lature, be eligible to any civil office of profit under this State which shall
have been created, or the emoluments of which may have been increased
during such term, except it be in such cases as are herein provided. The
president, for the time being, of the Senate and speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives shall be elected from their respective bodies.
SEC. 30. 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 hold-
ing 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 offices of militia to which there is attached
no annual salary, the office of postmaster, notary public, and the office of
justice of the peace, shall not be deemed lucrative; and that one person may
hold two or more county offices, if so provided by the Legislature.
SEc. 31. No person who at any time may have been a collector of taxes,
or who may have been otherwise entrusted with public money, shall be eligi-
ble to the Legislature, or to any office of profit or trust under the State gov.
ernment, until he shall have obtained a discharge for the amount of such
collection, and for all public moneys with which he may have been entrusted.
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The Texas Almanac for 1870, and Emigrant's Guide to Texas, book, January 1870; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123775/m1/64/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.