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VOLUME XXXVI.]
MKLLEDGEYILLE, GEOvuiA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1865.
NUMBER 10.
BorGHTO\ T ,MSBET,BARNES&MOORE
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Appl’n for leave to sell land, 5 00
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isting on our part to satisfy the inner and outer
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el Tar crp a * - * ^
(OMMISSiON MERCHANT, ’
[Established in business 1852.]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
• give strict attention to all business entrus-
'. i.itn His long connection with the Com-
K :.'U and Produce business of Atlanta, gives
livantagcs over perhaps any other house in
tf.ta or Upper Georgia.
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Heeral Commission & Forwarding
it-KL’HANTS, AND WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL DEALERS IN PRODUCE
AND GROCERIES,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, ga.
-«ep constantly on hand a good stock of
•’ i'acon, Corn, Wheat, Bagging and Rope,
Varns, Osnaburgs and Shirtings, Macker-
Ac,&c. Prompt attention given to
r,a -'Mid consignments.
ABBOTT & BROS.
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v. husiness done in Cotton except as
rjn Commission.
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% Factors, Commission
J Awarding merchants,
.* Bay Street, Savannah, Georgia.
H TISON, WM. W. GORDON
Imperial attention will be given to the sale
, MBER, rosin, TURPENTINE, fire.
1.1065, 14 3m*
Just
attrition ladies.
v DECEIVED a lot of Dress Good*, Trim-
fi ?» and Furnishing Goods.
JOSEPH & £AS8.
4f, ., , Srd door Millodgovillo Hotol.
• ‘**e»vtll.,Oet. 16, 1866. 11 tf
For tha Federal Union.
KOA8T1NO CHEST.TIT*.
BY “ONORA.”
Two little children sat, one Autumn night.
Close by the blazing fire;
Watching the flames ol rosy light.
As t hey crept up high and higher,
Flashing on the brown of the boy’s curls,
Lighting up the gold of the liftio girl’s.
Close at their feet unheeded lay,
A mimic tower of painted blocks,
And an open book with pictures gay,
Of a shepherd tending his snowy flocks;
A cricket sat on the broad stone hearth
Chirping a song of noisy mirth.
The “gnde wife” sat at her whirring wheel,
Spinning the wool into thread;
Thinking, as she wonnd it off on the reel,
Of the little boy that was dead;
And her bosom throbbed with heavy sighs,
As she wiped the tears from her soft bine eyes.
The ‘‘gude mon” sat by the cosy fire,
The red light dancing on his silvered hair,
While he wrought away with a twisted wire,
Striving to mend a broken chair;
Casting ever and anon a knot on the fire
Throwing the sparkles high and higher.
Old Towser rested his nose on his paws,
Drowsily watching the children at play,
Thinking as he moved bis massive jaws,
Of the juicy rabbit he caught that day,
Seeming to thick aud solemnly wonder,
If there was another in the thicket out yonder.
The children were watching the cheatnnts brown
That roasted and popped in the ashes,
While out of doors the rain fell down,
And dropped from the eaves in h-avy splashes,
And the wind god breaking hoaisely out,
Shrieked and raved with a lusty shout.
“Look ! little sister,” cried the eager boy,
To the girl who sat with lips apart;
“How the red fire eats, with a hiss of joy,
Into that big log’s oaken heart;”
And the flames leaped up with a merry whirl
Laughing in the face of the little girl.
“Look! little sister, away in the coals,
I see little children at pi iy ;
Tossing the snow on the whitened wolds,
Just as we did last Christmas day—
The balls fly thick and fast about,
And I think I can near the children shout.
And sec, little sissy, that castle grand,
Keating its towers over the sea ;
’Tis the grandest bouse in all the land,
I'll build such a one for you and me.
See the horses and dogs go harrying on”—
The chestnuts popped, and the castle was gone.
“There now, sissy, the prettiest are gone”!
The little boy ruefully cried;
“But any way our chestnuts are done,”
And he sat down by her side.
“Oh ! they are prime, sissy and just see—
There are ten for you, and ten for me !”
The dark lay still on the face of the deep,
The storm-king roared in his might,
But the little children lay fast asleep,
On the floor, in the red fire-light;
And the gude wife carried them off to bed,
Murmuring a prayer over each curly head.
For the Federal Union.
Though!* for the Time*.
There are times when we should think about
thinking ; times, too, when thought and develop
ment may not be entirely free, earnest, philosoph
ic. But now seems to be the hour when Ameri
can mind has awakened, and every element of
thought and action is receiving fresh elacticity,
energy, power. A terrible revolution has up-
heaved every principle of order and society, per
illing our most important and sacred institutions,
civil, social, religious. The waves of passionate
action have dashed to the surface and shore the
wrecks of effete thought and theory. Doubtless
iu every irresistible upheaving of nations, affec
ting powerfully every element of national exis
tence, one leading, all-prevailing principle over
shadows and imparts impetus to its movement.
That thought, in this revolution, is the develop
ment of a purer, stronger, higher, Christian civil
ization. Dissatisfaction with oar institutions has
not been the origin of our national difficulties,
hut the want of pure hearts and heads, and pro
found wisdom, controlling in our national coun
sels, thus throwing the administration of troth
and law into the hands of the ignorant and un
principled. Hence the material has predominated
over the spiritual and mental mind has reposed for
awhile iu the contemplation and enjoyment of its
creations, while the inoie gross aud material ele
ments of society have usurped authority, hurling
their forces against its citadel. Reeling beneath
the terriule shock, it has called to the contest eve
ry power of its being. Men are thinking who
never have thought, never before felt the necessi
ty for mpntal effort. They intensely feel that
darkness has been offered for light, shadows for
substances. Aught that is worthy and noble,
commands the interest of every thinker, states
man, Christian philosopher, and urges them to
marshal their forces. Much of onr education, re
ligious and political, for years, has resalted in the
wildest conceptions based chiefly upon our mate
rial interests, producing the germs of fanaticism
and infidelity, in opposition to reason and revela
tion. To-day, spiritual and material forces are
contending for the mastery amid the wreck of our
country, while a noble band of patriots are en
deavoring to harmonize the discordant elements,
oat of which to erect a still nobler fabric. The
opportunity for ignorance and prejudice to warp
and mar purity and justice is abundant. True
sentiment, truth, lofty virtue, becomes wrecked
when compelled to be surrounded by, and clothed
in the forms of the material. Truth and princi
ple proposes to conquer upon a loftier platform.
Ever and anun they may call into their ranks the
grosser forces, hr.t soon they become unwieldy,
worthless, having accomplished their mission.—
Truth is often shrinking, timid, but when attack
ed, it should behold, defiant, soaring to its own
sublime sphere. The nature of republicanism
and democracy, our constitution and laws, onr al
most unbounded freedom, gives the corrupt and
designing the privilege of grasping the reins of
administration and power. The license to an in
discriminate abuse of these elements of national
prosperity and existence does indicate in them a
want of power and adaptation; but fearfully
teaches us that “eternal vigilance" is the price of
liberty. Every element of boundless freedom and
glory remains intact, and now renewed effort and
purer wisdom is necessary to correct past mistakes,
strengthen weak points, and upon a broader and
more imperishable Christian platform, build a gov
ernment that shall surpass in liberty, glory and
grandeur the old establishment..Energetic thought
and action, prompted by impulsive efforts to breast
the waves and storms that beat madly about us,
often runs into the wildest exeeme* and lawless
ness—a prominent danger just now, and if not
fully appreciated by the leaders of Cbnrcb and
State, will be most disastrous. We bave states
manship, patriotism, devotion and every civil and
Christian law, for the erection of the noblest
structure. Calmly, patiently, bringing to the
work our most powerful resources, should we
bend our energies to our sublime ufiliiOB. the (ask
of perseverance and improvement. Persevere
in many, improvement in some things, is our work,
acting upon CcBsar's motto, “regarding nothing t
done when there is yet anything to do.” Many of
our forms of Church and State are defunct and
inapplicable. None but the bitterly prejudiced
wiil deny this fact. No community or religious
organization should prevent progress and enlight
ened improvement by worthless material. Our
obligations to society and the wellfare of the fu-
tme demands that we organize upon the highest
and most philosophic platform, that truth, law and
wisdom may be presented and taught in their pu
rest 8nd most splendid forms. An age of higher
development and progress is dawni^. That pro
gress does not contain the elements of destruc
tion. except to the worthless, bat it will scatter
the words and tiuths of life. We should be pre
pared to meet this age, and properly appreciate
our office and mission. The darkness that has
been shrouding our social aud political horizon, is
revealing worlds of light hitherto unknown in
the philosophy of human existence and govern
meat. Thought demands freedom, and must be
untrammelled to pursue vigorously and success
fully its glowing path of light. When men will
raise their eyes from the darkness of earth to the
splendor of heaven’s beams, we do not fear the
consequences. Who are to throw themselves in
to these wildly tumultuous masses, prevent ex
cesses and insurrections in principle and law,
mould their characters, refine and regulate their
tastes and sentiments, and straggle manfully in
the formation of a lofty national character? Who
are to inquire intelligently and thoughtfully iuto
the elements that are warping themselves into our
social, religious, and political institutions? Men
of the purest hearts, of maturest thought, of con
secrated and noblest ambition, of most compre
hensive'statesmenship; men who think, act and
legislate for unborn millions; men set apart iu
solitary significance to the work of elevating their
race, aud whese entire beings are absorbed in
loftiest communion with the terrible realties of ex
istence. temporal and eternal! Upon the tone of
our action and legislation now, depends the des
tiny of law and religion, the spread of light and
truth. The happiness and loftiest rights of mil
lions are profoundly involved.
Avon Edme.
An Ohio politician was boasting in a public
speech, that ho could bring an aignment to a pint
as quick as any other man.
You can bring a quart to a pint a good deal
quicker,” replied a Kentucky editor.
A wag says it is “folly to expect a girl to love
PREAMBLE TO THE' CONSTITU
TION.
the people of the State of Georgia,
ia order to form a permanent Government,
establish justice, insure domestic tran
quility and secure the blessings of liberty
to ourselves aul onr posterity—acknowl
edging and invoking the gutdauco of Al
mighty God the author of all good Gov
ernment, do ordain and establish this Con
stitution for the State of Georgia.
THE CONSTITUTION.
OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA.
ARTICLE I.
declaration of rights.
1. Protection to persons and property is
the duty of government.
2. No person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, except by due process
of law.
3. The writ of heabeas corpus, shall not
be suspended unless in case of rebellion,
or invasion, the public safety may require
it.
4. A well regulated militia, being neces
sary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear arms,
shall not be infringed.
5. Perfect freedom of religious senti
ment, be and the same is hereby secured,
and no inbibitant of this State, shall ever
he molestated iu person and property, nor
prohibited from holding any public office
or trust, on account of his religious opin
ion.
G. Freedom of speech, and freedom of
the press, are inherent elements of political
liberty. But while every citizen may
a man whom everybody speaks well of. Get up freely speak or write, or print on any sub-
a persecution, aud her affections will cling so fast
that a dozen guardians can’t remove them.”
A Welch newspaper recently contained the fol
lowing in its notices to correspondents :
Truth is crowded out of our columns this
week?”
Under the head of "Happiness corked up in
half-ounce bottles.” the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph describes the habit of laudanum drink
ing in that city ; a practice, it says, which is ra
pidly increasing, so that the druggists, “who may
be counted by scores,” are getting rich. No re
strictions are placed upon the sale of laudanum,
and the irresponsibility of the druggists is denoun
ced by the Telegraph as the means of shortening
the lives of very many of the citizens.
A woman with a bad tempey is liko the world
without sunshine.
The Hair of Women.—A German professes
to have counted the hairs on the heads of four wo
men of different complexion, and has just pub
lished the result: On the head of the blonde there
were 140,419 hairs ; on that of the brown haired
women, 109,440; on that of the black-haired,
102,962; and on that of the red-haired, 83,740.
Although there was this disparity in the number
of individual hairs, each crop was about the same
weight. The average weight of a woman’s hair
is stated, on the same authority, to be fourteen
ounces.
Fashionable Ff.mai.e Play.—The gambling
of ladies at present in New York, is now described
as a separate nationality. A correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says:
In Fifth avenue and fourteenth and Twenty-
or waiver, or estopel of such claim for
compensation of loss sustained by reason
of the emancipation of his slaves, as any
citizen of Georgia may hereafter make up
on the justice and magnanimity of that
Government.
21. The enumeration of rights herein
contained is a part of the Constitution,
but shall not be construed to deny to the
f 'eople any inherent rights which they
i
rave hitherto enjoyed.
ARTICLE II.
SUCTION 1.
1. The Legislative, Executive and Ju
dicial Departments shall be distinct; and
each department shall be confided to a
seperate body of magistracy. No person,
or collection of persons, being of one de
partment, shall exercise any power prop
erly attached to either of the others, ex
cept in cases herein expressly provided.
2. The legislative power shall be vested
in a General Assembly, which shall con
sist of a Senate and House of Represen
tatives, the members whereof shall be
elected, and returns of the elections made
in the manner now prescribed by law,
(until changed by the General Assembly)
on the 15th day of November, in the pres
ent year, and biennially thereafter, on the
first Wednesday of October, to serve un
til their successors shall be elected ; but
the General Assembly may. by law,
change the day cf election.
3. The first meeting of the General
Assembly, under this Constitution, shall
be on the first Monday in December next,
after which, it shall meet annually on the
first Thursday in November, or on such
other day as the General Assembly may
prescribe. A majority of each House
shall constitute a quorum to transact busi
ness, hut a smaller number may adjourn
fiom day to day and compel the attendance
of its absent members, as each House may
provide. No session of the General As
sembly, after the first above mentioned,
shall continue louger than forty days, un
less prolonged by a vote of two-thirds of
each branch thereof.
4. No person holding any military com-
ject, he shall be responsible for the abuse
of the liberty.
7. The right of the people to appeal to
the courts, to petition government on all
matters of legitimate cognizance and peac-, . . , , .
ably to assemble for the consideration of! miss , 10D ’ ° r appo.ntment, having any
any matter of public concern shall never emolument or compensation annexed thre-
b e impaired j t0 » under this State or the united States,
8. Every person charged with an offence ; r f eil,J<ir “ f * e, 5- ( elce f‘ J . u '“ T i > ce8 of
against the laws of the State, shall have > er,or V“‘, ’ J “r -’T be 1 T/’ ?“ d
the privilege and benefit of counsel, shall “ fficor f, of lLe m,lllla ) nor delaultcr
he furnished on demand with a copy cf for money, w for any legal taxes
the accusation, and list of witnesses on requ.red of htmshall have a seatm either
whose testimony the charge against him b . r “" ch of D ,he . Gc “!! al Asse-n Wy; nor
is founded, shall have compulsory pro . ^">1 any Senator or RenresontsUve. after
cess to obtain the attendance of his own {V 8 d““ “on of such, be elected by the
witnesses; shall be confronted with the Assembly, or appointed by the .
witnesses testifying against him, and shall 1 ?° T T°! w 'J b „ aJ r‘ CC , and COD8ent °‘'
have a public id spledy trial by an im-1 ° f Sennte. to any office or
partial jury, as heretofore practiced in any emolument or
Georgia r compensation annexed thereto, during the
o *v- ’ i n i . . . j time for which he shall have been elected.
p c ’ so ( n 6ba11 ba P ul ■“ J*»P» Jy I 5 . N„ person convicted of any felony
ot life or liberty, more than oDce for the i c ^ J
J a • i .. before any Court of this State, or of the
same otience, save on his or her own motion — - - J
for a new trial after conviction, or in case
of mistrial.
10. No conviction shall work corrup
tion of blood or general forfeiture of es
tate.
11. Excessive bail shall not bo required,
United States, shall be eligible to any
office, or appointment of honor, profit or
trust, within this State until he shall have
been pardoned.
6. No person who is a collector or bol-
of public money, shall be eligible to any
office in this State, until the same is ac
third streets, there are often parties of ladies from nor excessive fines imposed, uor cruel and . . r % .j - . .
which the opposite sex are sternly exclude!, unusU al punishments inflicted. C ° Unt6d f ° r ^ P aid 1Dt ° tLe treasui T’
where the fair gamesters play until daylight for
large stakes; and it not uufreqnently happens
that, when their parses are depleted, they put up
their bracelets, necklaces aud watches, as wagers.
Some of the female gamesters lose heavily, aud
the desperate sbilta to which they are put to con
ceal their losses, and replace them, must be fear
fully demoralizing. A young woman, the daugh
ter of one of onr most opulent citizens, was point
ed out to me last Saturday, in the park, as a noto
rious gambler, by one of her own sex, who in
formed me that she had parted with one hundred
thousand dollars since she went to Saratoga, in
July, and made the doting papa believe that she
had expended the sum in dress and cbaiity. The
young woman in question is very pretty, not
mare than twenty; and no one regarded her pale
spirituelle face, her soft bine eyes, and gentle and
reserved manner, would imagine that sbe had fall
en a victim to one of the incst dangerous vices.
A young man in Harrisburg, Penm, answered
an advertisement in a New York paper, which set
forth that “valuable information would be for
warded on receipt of. 10.” The young man sent
the 10c and received the following: “Friend, for
your ten cents, postage, <fcc., please find enclosed
advice, which may be of great value to you. As
many persons are injured for weeks, months and
years by the careless use of a knife, therefore,
my advice is, when you use a knife always whittle
from you.”
Some Siiooting.—The following re
liable story is one of the incidents of
camp life. A Yankee sharpshooter
and a Mississippi picket got tired of
firing at the bomb-proofs each fellow
was m, and soon got into conversation:
Federal—“I say, can you fellows
shoot?”
Reb—“Wall, I reckon we can some.
12. The powers of the courts to punish
for contempts shall be limited by legisla
tive acts.
13. Legislative acts in violation of the
constitution are void, and the judiciary
shall so declare them.
14. Ex post facto laws—laws impair
ing the obligation of contracts, and retro
active laws injuriously affecting any right
of the citizen, are, prohibited:
15. Laws should have a general opera
tion, and no general law affecting private
rights shall be varied in a particular case
by special legislation, except with the
free consent, iu writing, of all persons to
be affected thereby; and no person being
under a legal disability to contract, is ca
pable of such free consent.
16. The power of taxation over the
whole State shall be exercised by the
General Assembly only to raise revenue
for the support of government, to pay the
public debt, to provide for the common
defence, and for such other purposes as
the General Assembly may be specially
required or empowered to accomplish by
this Constitution. But the General Assem
bly may, by statute, grant the power of
taxation for designated purposes, with such
limitations as they may deem expedient,
to county authorities and municipal cor
porations, to he exercised within their sev
eral territorial limits.
17. In cases of necessity, private ways
may be granted upon just compensation
being first paid ; and with this exception
Dowd in Mississippi w r e can knock a private property shall not he taken save
bumble-bee off a thistle bough at three
hundred yards.”
Fed.—‘‘Oh, that ain’t nothing to
the way we shewt up in Varmount.
I belonged to a military company
there, with a hundred men iu the
company, and we went out to prac
tice every week. The cap’n draws us
up in single file, and sets a cider bar
rel rolling down hill, and each man
takes a shot at the bung-hole as it
turns up. It is afterward examined,
and if there is a shot that didn’t go in
the bung-hole, the member is expelled.
I belonged to the company ten years,
and there ain’t been nobody expelled
yet.”
HooPE*!—Leigh Hunt goes into eestaciea
while describing the additional beauties which the
hoop adds to the female figure:
When the hoop is large and the swell of it
hangs at a proper distance from the person, it be
comes not a h&bilmeni, hut an inclosnre- The
person stands aloof from it, and is imagined to do
so. The lady is a goddess, is half concealed in a
hemisphere out of which the rest of her person
rises like Venus out of the billows. When she
moves, and the hoop is a proper length as well as
breadth, sbe does not walk—her steps are not vis
ible—she is borne along ; she is wafted, comes
glidisg.
for public use, and then only on just com
pensation to be first provided and paid, un
less there be a pressing, tinforseen neces
sity ; in which event the General Assem
bly shall make early provision for 6nch
compensation.
18. The right to be secure in their per
sons, houses, papers and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated; and no warrant shall is
sue but upon probable cause, supported
by oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place or places to be search
ed, and the person and, things to be seized.
19. The person of a debtor shall not be
detained in prison, after delivery for the
benefit ol his creditors, of all his estate,
not expressly exempted by law from levy
and sale.
20. The Government of the United
States having, as a war measure, proclaim
ed all slaves held or owned in this State,
emancipated from slavery, and having
carried that proclamation into fall effect,
there shall henceforth be, within the State
of Georgia, neither slavery nor involun
tary servitude, save as a punishment for
crime, after legal conviction thereof; Pro
vided, this acquiescence in the action of the
Government ot the United States, is not
intended to operate as a relinquishment,
Section 2.
There shall be forty-four Senatorial
Districts in three State of Georgia, each
composed of the contiguous counties, from
each of which districts one Senator shall
be chosen, until otherwise arranged, as
hereinafter provided.
The said districts shall be constituted
of counties as follows :
The First District, of Chatham. Bryan
and Effingham.
The Second, of Liberty, Tattnall and
McIntosh.
The Third, of Wayne, Fierce and Ap
pling.
The Fourth, of Glynn, Camden and
Charlton.
The Fifth, of Coffee, Ware and Clinch.
The Sixth, of Echols, Lowndes and Ber
rien.
The Seventh, of Brooks, Thomas and
Colquitt.
The Eighth, of Decatur, Mitchell and
Miller.
The Ninth, of Early, Calhoun and Ba
ker
The Tenth, of Dougherty, Lee and
Worth.
The Eleventh, of Clay, Randolph and
Terrell.
The Twelfth, of Stewart, Webster hud
Quitman.
The Thirteenth, of Sumpter, Schley
and Macon.
The Fourteenth, of Dooly, Wilcox and
Pulaski.
The Fifteenth, of Montgomery, Telfair
and Irwin.
The Sixteenth, of Laurens, Johnson and
Emanuel.
The Seventeenth, of Bulloch, Scriven
and Burke.
The Eighteenth, of Richmond, Glass
cock and Jefferson.
The Nineteenth, of Taliaferro, Warren
and Greene.
The Twentieth, of Baldwin, Hancock
and Washington.
The Twenty-First, of Twiggs, Wilkin
son and Jones.
The Twenty-Second, of Bibb, Monroe
and Pike.
The Twenty-Third, of Houston, Craw
ford and Taylor.
The Twenty-Fourth of Marion, Chat
tahoochee and Muscogee.
The Twenty-Fifth, of Harris, Upson
and Talbot.
The Twenty-Sixth, of Spaulding. Butts
and Fayette.
The Twenty-Seventh, of Newlon, Wal
ton and Clark.
The Twenty-Eighth, of Jasper, Putnam
and Morgan.
The Twenty-Ninth, of Wilkes, Lincoln
and Columbia.
The Thirtieth, of Oglethorge, MadUon
and Elbort,
The Thirty-First, of Hart, Franklin
and Habersham.
The Thirty-Second, of White, Lomp-
kiu and Dawson.
The Thirty-Third, of Hall, Banks and
Jackson.
The Thirty-Fourth, of Gwinnett, De-
Kalb and Henry.
The Thirty-Fifth, of Clayton Fulton
and Cobb.
The Thirty-Sixth, of Meriwether, Cow
eta and Campbell.
The Thirty-Seventh, Troup, Heard and
Carroll.
The Thirty-Eighth, Haralson, Polk and
Paulding.
The Thirty-Ninth, of Cherokee, Milton
and Forsyth.
The Fortieth, of Union, Towns and
Rabun.
The Forty-First, of Fannin, Gilmer and
Pickens.
The Forty-Second, of’Bartow, Floyd
and Chattooga.
The Forty-Third, of Murray, Whitfield
and Gordon.
The Forty-Fourth, of Walker, Dade
and Catoosa.
If a new county be established, it shall
be added to a district which it adjoins.
The Senatorial Districts may be changed
by the General Assembly, but only at the
first session after the taking of each census
by the United States Government, and
their number shall never be increased.
2. No person shall he a Senator who
shall not have attained to the age of
twenty-five years and be a citizen of the
United States, and have been for three
years an inhabitant of this State, and for
one year a resident of the district from
which he is chosen.
3. The presiding officer shall be styled
the President of the Senate, and shall ba
elected viva voce from their own body.
4. r lbe Senate shall have the sole pow
er to try all impeachments. When sitting
ior that purpose, they shall be on oath or
affirmation, and no person shall he con
victed without the concurrence of two-
thirds of the members present. Judg
ment, in cases of impeachment, shall not
extend further than removal from office,
and disqualification to hold and enjoy any
office of honor, profit, or trust, within this
State ; but the party convicted shall nev
ertheless, be liable and subject to indict
ment, trial, judgment and punishment ac
cording to law.
Section 3.
1. The House of Representatives shali
be composed as follows : The thirty-seven
counties having the largest Representative
population shall have two Representatives
each. Every other county shall have one
Representative. The designation of the
counties having two Representatives shall
be made by the General Assembly im
mediately after the taking of each census.
2. No person shall be a Representative
who shall not have attained to the age of
twenty-one years, and be a citizen of the
United States, and have been for three
years an inhabitant of the State, and for
one year a resident of the county which
he represents.
3. The presiding officer of the House
of Representatives shall be styled the
Speaker, and shall be elected viva voce
from their own body.
4. They shall have the sole power to
impeach all persons who have been or may
he in office.
All bills for raising revenue or appro
priating,money shall originate in the Honse
of Representatives; but the Senate may
propose or concur in amendments, as in
other bills.
Section^ 4.
1. Each House shall be the judge of the
election returns and qualifications of its
own members ; and shall have power to
puuish them for disorderly behavior or
misconduct, by censure, fine, imprisonment
or expulsion ; bat no member shall be ex
pelled except by a vote of two-thirds of
the House from which he js expelled.
2. Each House may punish, by impris
onment not extending beyond the session,
any person not a member, who shall be
guilty of a contempt by any disorderly
behavior in its presence, or who, daring
the session, shall threaten injury to the per-
1 son or estate of any member, for anything
said or done in either House; or who shaU
assault or arrest any witness going to or
returning from, or who shall resene or at
tempt to rescue, any person arrested by
either House.
3. The members of both Houses shall
be free from arrest during their attendance
on the General Assembly, and in going to
and returning therefrom, except for trea
son, felony, or breach of the peace. And
no member shall be liable to answer in
any other place, for anything spoken in
debate in either House.
4. Bach House shall keep a journal of
its proceedings, and publish tnem immedi
ately after its adjournment. The yeas
and -nays of their members on any ques
tion, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of the
members present, be entered on the jour
nals. The original journals shall be pre-
served(after publication,) in the office of
the Secretary of State; bnt there shall
be no other record thereof.
5. Every bill, before it shall pass, shall
be read three times, and on three separate
and distinct days in each Honse, unless
in cases of actual invasion or insurrection.
Nor shall any law or ordinance pass, which
refers to more than one subject matter, or
contains matter different from what ia ex
pressed in the title thereof.
6. All acts shall be signed by the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the
House of Representatives; and no bill,
ordinance or resolution, intended to have
the effect of law, which »hsll have been
rejected by either Honse, shall be again
proposed under the same or any other
title, without the consent of two-thirde
of the Honse, by which tho same was re
jected.
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