A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 802 of 859
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802
HISTORY OF TEXAS.
SEC. 18. No Senator or Representative shall, during the term for which
he may be elected, be eligible to any civil office of profit under this State
which shall have been created or the emoluments of which may Phave been
increased during such term; no member of either House shall, during the
term for which he is elected, 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;
and no member of either House shall vote for any other member
for any office whatever, which may be filled by a vote of the Legislature,
except in such cases as are in this Constitution provided. Nor shall any
member of the Legislature be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any
contract with the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed
during the term for which he shall have been elected.
SEC. 19. No judge of any court, Secretary of State, Attorney-General,
clerk o any court of record, or any person holding a lucrative office under
the United States, or this State, or any foreign government, shall, duringi
the term for which le is elected or appointed, be eligible to the Legislature
SEc. 20. 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
eligible to the Legislature, 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, or for all public moneys with which he may have been entrusted.
SEC.
21. No member shall be questioned in any other place for words
spoken in debate in either House.
SEC. 22. A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure
or bill, proposed, or pending before the Legislature, shall disclose the fact
to the House of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.
SEC. 23. If any Senator or Representative remove his residence from the
district or county for which he was elected, his office shall thereby become
vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as provided in section 13 of this article.
SEC.
24. The members of the Legislature shall receive from the public
Treasury such compensation for their services as may, from time to time,
be provided by law, not exceeding five dollars per day for the first sixty
days of each session; and after that not exceeding two dollars per day for
the remainder of the session; except the first session held under this Constitution,
when they may receive not exceeding four dollars per day for the
first ninety days, and after that not exceeding two dollars per day for the
remainder of the session. In addition to the per diem the members of eachllouse
shall be entitled to mileage in going to and returning from the seat
of government, which mile age shall not exceed five dollars for every twentyfive
miles, the distance to be computed by the nearest and most direct route
of travel by land, rergardJess of railways and water routes; and tihe Comptroller
of the Stale shall prepare and preserve a table of distances to each
county scat now or heleafter to be estalished, and by such table the mileage
of each member shall be paid; but no member shall be entitled, to mileage.
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/802/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .