422 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. C11. 62. 1871. deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction shall be punished accordin l . Quorum ot”1eg- gSii.C. 10. And be it further enacted, That a majority of the legislative
- ¤lm'° ’”S°m· assembly appointed or elected to each house shall constitute a quorum,
u·§,,,,,b,,,,,_ The house of delegates shall be the judge of the election returns and Rules. qualifications of its members. Each house shall determine the rules of its proceedings, and shall choose its own officers. The governor shall Omnizauon call the council to order at the opening of each new assembly; and the ef wh new ¤¤· secretary of the District shall call the house of delegates to order at the °°"‘°ly‘ opening of each new legislative assembly, and shall preside over it until a temporary presiding officer shall have been chosen and shall have Expulsion of taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by either house except by m°"‘ °’“· a vote of two thirds of all the members appointed or elected to that Punishmentibr house. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person not a °°“*°ml’*· member who shall be guilty of disrespect to the house by disorderly or contcmptuous behavior in its presence; but no such imprisonment shall Adjournment. extend beyond twenty-four hours at one time. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than two days, or to any other place than that in which such house shall be sitting. At the Yeas and nays. request of any member the yeas and nays shall be taken upon any question and entered upon the journal. Pills. where to Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That bills ‘may originate in either °*`$g't:°:‘n mm house, but may be altered, amended, or rejected by the other; and on passage. the final passage of all bills the vote shall be by yeas and nays upon each bill separately, and shall be entered upon the journal, and no bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to each house. Reading of Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That every bill shall be read at bi?- m large on three different days in each house. No act shall embrace more b,,,,?, int 2]:,: than one subject, and that shall be expressed in its title ; but if any subsubject; ject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be so whentotskc expressed in the title; and no act of the legislative assembly shall take °m°°i· efliect until thirty days after its passage, unless, in case of emergency, (which emergency shall be expressed in the preamble or body of the act,) the legislative assembly shall by a vote of two thirds of all the members appointed or elected to ouch house otherwise direct. M<>¤¤}’ ¤<>¢l¢¤ SEG- 18- And GM`! further ¢nac¢cd,Tha.t no money shall be drawn g;;';:“°‘;;'3), from the treasury of the District, except in pursuance of an appropriagm, " ’ tion made by law, and no bill making appropriations for the pay or sul- N£rt>¤‘¤1>¤‘l¤il¤¤ aries of the officers of the District government shall contain any pro- ‘ visions on any other subject. hgpwpzlzggvv. Sec. 14.. Ami be it farther enacted, That each legislative assembly vided fm.; shall provide for all the appropriations necessary for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the government of the District until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session, the aggregate amount of which shall not be increased without a vote of two thirds of the members elected or appointed to each house as herein provided, nor exceed the amount of revenue authorized by wm, mend, law to_be raised in such time, and all appropriations, general or special, requiring money to be paid out of the District treasury, from funds belonging to the District, shall end with such fiscal quarter; and no No debt by debt, by which the aggregate debt of the District shall exceed five per
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- g·£:_b° cent. of the assessed property of the District, shall be contracted, unless
- ,,,_&,,_ the law authorizing the same shall at n general election have been s¤l>·
putt 20. mitted to the people and have received a majority of the votes cast for "’¤P·"2*· members of the legislative assembly at such election. The legislative assembly shall provide for the publication of said law in at least two newspapers in the District for three months, at least, before the vote of
