67. The Legislature shall prescribe by law the number, duties and compensation of the officers and employes of each House, and no payment shall be made from the State Treasury or be in any way authorized to any person except to an acting officer or employe elected or appointed in pursuance of law.

68. The Legislature shall have no power to grant or to authorize or require any county or municipal authority to grant, nor shall any county or municipal authority have power to grant any extra compensation, fee or allowance to any public officer, servant or employee, agent or contractor, after service shall have been rendered or contract made, nor to increase or decrease the fees and compensation of such officers during their term of office; nor shall any officer of the State bind the State to the payment of any sum of money but by authority of law; provided this section shall not apply to allowances made by Commissioners, Courts or Boards of Revenue to county officers for ex officio services.

69. All stationery, printing, paper and fuel used in the legislative and other departments of government shall be furnished and the printing, binding and distribution of laws, Journals, department reports, and all other printing, binding and repairing and furnishing the halls and rooms used for the meeting of the Legislature and its committees, shall be performed under contract, to be given to the lowest responsible bidder below a maximum price, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by law; no member or officer of any department of the government shall be in any way interested in such contracts, and all such contracts shall be subject to the approval of the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer.

70. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. The Governor, Auditor and Attorney General shall, before each regular session of the Legislature, prepare a general revenue bill to be submitted to the Legislature, for its information, and the Secretary of State shall have printed for the use of the Legislature a sufficient number of copies

of the bill so prepared which the Governor shall transmit to the House of Representatives as soon as organized, to be used or dealt with as that House may elect. The Senate may propose amendments to revenue bills. No revenue bill shall be passed during the last five days of the session.

71. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial de partments of the State, interest on the public debt, and for the public schools. The salary of no officer or employe shall be increased in such bill, nor shall any appropriation be made for any officer or employe unless his employment and the amount of his salary have already been provided for by law. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bill, and each embrac ing but one subject.

72. No money shall be paid out of the Treasury except upon appropriation made by law, and on warrant drawn by the proper officer in pursuance thereof; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public moneys shall be published annually, in such manner as may be by law directed.

73. No appropriation shall be made to any charitable or educational institution not under the absolute control of the State, other than normal schools established by law for the professional training of teachers for the public schools of the State, except by vote of two-thirds of all members elected to each House.

74. No act of the Legislature shall authorize the investment of any trust fund by executors, administrators, guardians and other trustees in the bonds or stock of any private corporation; and any such acts now existing are avoided, saving investments heretofore made.

75. The power to change the venue in civil and criminal cases is vested in the courts, to be exercised in such manner as shall be provided by law.

76. When the Legislature shall be convened in special session there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of

the Governor calling such session, except by a vote of two-thirds of each House. Special sessions shall be limited to thirty days.

77. No State office shall be continued or created for the inspection or measuring of any merchandise, manufacture or commodity, but any county or municipality may appoint such officers when authorized by law.

78. No act of the Legislature changing the seat of government of the State shall become a law until the same shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of the State at a general election, and approved by a majority of such electors voting on the same; and such act shall specify the proposed new location.

79. A member of the Legislature who shall solicit, demand, or receive, or consent to receive, directly or indirectly, for himself or for another, from any company, corporation or person, any money, office, appointment, employment, reward, thing of value, or enjoyment, or personal advantage or promise thereof, for his vote or official influence or for withholding the same, or with an understanding, expressed or implied, that his vote or his official action shall in an way be influenced thereby; or who shall solicit or demand any such money or other advantage, matter or thing aforesaid, for another as the consideration of his vote or influence, or for withholding the same; or shall give or withhold his vote or influence in consideration of the payment or promise of such money, advantage, matter or thing to another, shall be guilty of bribery within the meaning of this Constitution; and shall incur the disabilities and penalties provided thereby for such offense, and such additional punishment as is or shall be provided by law.

Any person who shall, directly or indirectly, offer, give or promise any money, or thing of value, testimonial, privilege, or personal advantage, to any executive or judicial officer or member of the Legislature to influence him in the performance of any of his public or official duties, shall be guilty of bribery and be punished in such manner as may be provided by law.

81. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the Legislature or of public officers of this State or of any municipal division thereof, and any occu pation or practice of solicitation of such members or officers, to influence their official action, shall be defined by law, and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment in the penitentiary; and the Legislature shall provide for the trial and punishment of the offenses enumerated in the two preceding sections, and shall require the Judges to give the same specially in charge to the Grand Juries in all the counties of this State.

82. A member of the Legislature 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, aud shall not vote thereon.

83. In all elections by the Legislature, the members shall vote viva voce, and the votes shall be entered on the Journals.

84. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary and proper to decide differences by arbitrators, to be appointed by the parties, who may choose that mode of adjustment.

85. It shall be the duty of the Legislature, at its first session after the ratification of this Constitution, and within every subsequent period of twelve years, to make provision by law for the revision, digesting and promulgation of the public statutes of this State, of a general nature, both civil and criminal,

86. The Legislature shall pass such penal laws as they may deem expedient, to suppress the evil practice of dueling.

87. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to regulate by law the cases in which deduction shall be made from the salaries or compensation of public officers for neglect of duty in their official capacities, and the amount of such deduction.

88. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to require the several counties of this State to make adequate provision for the maintenance of the poor.

89. The Legislature shall not have power to authorize any municipal corporations to pass any laws inconsistent with the general laws of this State.

90. In the event of annexation of any foreign territory to this State, the Legislature shall enact laws extending to the inhabitants of the acquired territory all the rights and privileges which may be required by the terms of the acquisition not inconsistent with this Constitution. Should the State purchase such foreign territory the Legislature, with the approval of the Governor, shall be authorized to expend any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and if necessary, to provide also for the issuance of State bonds to pay for the purchase of such foreign territory.

91. The Legislature shall not tax the property real or personal, of the State, counties or other municipal corporations, or cemeteries; nor lots in incorporated cities or towns, or within one mile of any city or town, to the extent of one acre, nor lots one mile or more distant from such cities or towns, to the extent of five acres, with the buildings thereon, when the same are used exclusively for religious worship, for schools or for purposes purely charitable.

92. The Legislature shall, by law, prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to ascertain the value of real and personal property, exempted from sale under legal process by this Constitution; and to secure the same to the claimant thereof as selected.

93. The State shall not engage in works of internal improvement, nor lend money or its credit in aid of such; nor shall the State be interested in any private or corporate enterprise, or lend money or its credit to any individual, association or corporation.

94. The Legislature shall not have power to authorize any county, city, town or other subdivision of this State to lend its credit, or to grant public money or thing of value, in aid of, or to any individual, association or corporation whatsoever, or to become a stockholder in any such corporation, association, or company by issuing bonds or otherwise.