Composite Amendments no session but its regular biennial sessions, unless convened by the Governor in extra session in the manner provided by the Constitution; and the Legislature shall not hold any adjourned session. 1897. S. No. 1072 (Int. 882). S. J. 645. 6. Single legislative body Art. 3, § 1. The legislative powers of this state shall be vested in [the senate and assembly.] one legislative governing body, to be constituted as hereinafter provided, to be called the legislature. Art. 3, § 2. [The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their successors shall be chosen for two years. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty members, who shall be chosen for one year.] The senators and assemblymen chosen at the election at which this amendment is adopted, shall constitute the legislature for the year beginning on the first day of January following the adoption of such amendment. The first elections of members of the legislature, as constituted hereunder, shall occur at the general election in the year following the adoption of this amendment, and they shall hold office for the term of two years from the first day of January following their election. The state legislature, except as hereinabove otherwise provided, shall hereafter be constituted by the election of one member from each congressional district. All provisions of this constitution referring to the legislature, its powers or duties, shall apply to the legislature as thus constituted, except that any provision requiring or permitting concurrent action of the senate and assembly, by resolution or otherwise, in any matter, shall hereafter be deemed to confer the authority or impose the duty to which such provision relates upon the legislature; and in like manner any power or duty conferred by this constitution on either branch of the legislature as heretofore constituted shall hereafter be deemed to confer such power or impose such duty on the legislature as hereinabove constituted. Art. 3, § 5. (This concurrent resolution also included a proposal to repeal this section.) Art. 3, & 4. An enumeration of the inhabitants of the state shall be taken under the direction of the secretary of state, during Composite Amendments the months of May and June, in the year one thousand nine hundred and five, and in the same months every tenth year thereafter.[; and the said districts shall be so altered by the legislature at the first regular session after the return of every enumeration, that each senate district shall contain as nearly as may be an equal number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, and be in as compact form as practicable, and shall remain unaltered until the return of another enumeration, and shall at all times, consist of contiguous territory, and no county shall be divided in the formation of a senate district except to make two or more senate districts wholly in such county. No town, and no block in a city inclosed by streets or public ways, shall be divided in the formation of senate districts; nor shall any district contain a greater excess in population over an adjoining district in the same county, than the population of a town or block therein, adjoining such district. Counties, towns or blocks which, from their location, may be included in either of two districts, shall be so placed as to make said districts most nearly equal in number of inhabitants, excluding aliens. No county shall have four or more senators unless it shall have a full ratio for each senator. No county shall have more than onethird of all the senators; and no two counties or the territory thereof as now organized, which are adjoining counties, or which are separated only by public waters, shall have more than one-half of all the senators. The ratio for apportioning senators shall always be obtained by dividing the number of inhabitants, excluding aliens, by fifty, and the senate shall always be composed of fifty members, except that if any county having three or more senators at the time of any apportionment shall be entitled on such ratio to an additional senator or senators, such additional senator or senators shall be given to such county in addition to the fifty senators, and the whole number of senators shall be increased to that extent.] Art. 3, § 5. (This concurrent resolution also included a proposal to repeal this section.) Art. 14, § 1. Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the [senate and assembly] legislature; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected [to each of the two houses] to the legislature, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on [their] its journal [s], Composite Amendments and the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election [of senators,] and shall be published for three months previous to the time of making such choice; and if in the legislature so next chosen, as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected [to each house] thereto, then it shall be the duty of the legislature to submit each proposed amendment or amendments to the people for approval in such manner and at such times as the legislature shall prescribe; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a majority of the electors voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall become a part of the constitution from and after the first day of January next after such approval. Art. 14, § 2. At the general election to be held in the year one thousand nine hundred and sixteen and every twentieth year thereafter, and also at such times as the legislature may by law provide, the question," Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" shall be decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every [senate] congressional district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election [at which members of the Assembly shall be chosen], and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates-at-large. The delegates so elected shall convene at the capitol on the first Tuesday of April next ensuing after their election, and shall continue their session until the business of such convention shall have been completed. Every delegate shall receive for his services the same compensation and the same mileage as shall then be annually payable to the members of the [assembly] legislature. A majority of the convention shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and no amendment to the constitution shall be submitted for approval to the electors as hereinafter provided, unless by the assent of a majority of all the delegates elected to the convention, the yeas and nays being entered on the journal to be kept. The convention shall have the power to appoint such officers, employees and assistants as it may deem necessary, and fix their compensation and to provide for the printing of its documents, journal and proceedings. The convention shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, choose its own officers, and Composite Amendments be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its members. In case of a vacancy, by death, resignation or other cause, of any district delegate elected to the convention, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates representing the district in which such vacancy occurs. If such vacancy occurs in the office of a delegate-at-large, such vacancy shall be filled by a vote of the remaining delegates-at-large. Any proposed constitution or constitutional amendment which shall have been adopted by such convention, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of the state at the time and in the manner provided by such convention, at an election which shall be held not less than six weeks after the adjournment of such convention. Upon the approval of such constitution or constitutional amendments, in the manner provided in the last preceding section, such constitution or constitutional amendment, shall go into effect on the first day of January next after such approval. 1914. A. No. 1465 (Int. 1320). A. J. 866. 7. Terms and salaries of members of legislature, governor and lieutenantgovernor short ballot Art. 3, § 2. The senate shall consist of fifty members, except as hereinafter provided. [The senators elected in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five shall hold their offices for three years, and their successors shall be chosen for two years.] The senators elected in the year one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, shall hold their offices for two years, and their successors shall be chosen for four years. The assembly shall consist of one hundred and fifty members, who shall be chosen for [one] two years[] at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Art. 3, § 6. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services an annual salary of [one thousand five] twenty-five hundred dollars. Members of either house shall also receive the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they shall travel in going to and returning from their place of meeting, once in each session, on the most usual route, senators, when the senate alone is convened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the court for the trial of impeachments, and such members of the assembly, not exceeding nine [in number] members, as Composite Amendments shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive an additional allowance of ten dollars a day. Art. 4, § 1. The executive power shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for [two] four years; a lieutenant-governor shall be chosen at the same time and for the same term. The governor and lieutenant-governor elected next preceding the time when this section shall take effect, shall hold office [until] to and including the thirty-first day of December, [one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six] one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and their successors shall be chosen at the general election in that year for the term of four years. Art. 4, § 4. The governor shall be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the state. He shall have power to convene the legislature, or the senate only, on extraordinary occasions. At extraordinary sessions no subject shall be acted upon, except such as the governor may recommend for consideration. He shall communicate by message to the legislature at every session the condition of the state, and recommend such matters to it as he shall judge expedient. He shall transact all necessary business with the officers of government, civil and military. He shall expedite all such measures as may be resolved upon by the legislature, and shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed. He may at any time remove from office any state officer appointed by a governor of the state or by the head of any state department, bureau or commission, other than a judicial officer or an officer appointed by the legislature or by either house thereof, the method of whose removal is not elsewhere prescribed in this constitution; but unless he be authorized by law to remove any such officer at his pleasure, the governor shall in each case give to the officer removed a statement in writing of the reasons for his removal and an opportunity to be heard in his own behalf. He shall receive for his services an annual salary of [ten] twenty thousand dollars and there shall be provided for his use a suitable and furnished executive residence. Art. 5, 1. The secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general, [and] state engineer and surveyor, superintendent of public works and superintendent of state prisons shall be [chosen at a general election, at the times and places of electing the governor and lieutenant-governor and shall hold their offices for two years, except as provided in section two of this |