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Incorporating cities, towns, and villages, or changing or amending the charter of any town, city, or village.

Providing for the election of officers in townships, incorporated towns or cities.

Summoning or empaneling grand or petit juries. Providing for the bonding of cities, towns, precincts, school districts, or other municipalities. Providing for the management of public schools. Regulating the interest on money.

The opening and conducting of any election, or designating the place of voting.

The sale or mortgage of real estate belonging to minors or others under disability.

The protection of game or fish.

Chartering or licensing ferries or toll bridges.
Remitting fines, penalties, or forfeitures.

Creating, increasing, and decreasing fees, percentages, or allowances of public officers during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed.

Changing the law of descent.

Granting to any corporation, association, or individual, the right to lay down railroad tracks, or amending existing charters for such purpose.

Granting to any corporation, association, or individual, any special or exclusive privileges, immunity, or franchise whatever. In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted. (4 Neb., 412; 5 Neb., 127; 8 Neb., 179, 518; 12 Neb., 94.)

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Extra compen

SEC. 16. The legislature shall never grant any ations.

Salt springs.

Donations of land.

Appropriations

extra compensation to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into. Nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office.

SEC. 17. The legislature shall never alienate the salt springs belonging to the state.

SEC. 18.

Lands under the control of the state

shall never be donated to railroad companies, private corporations, or individuals.

for expenses of SEC. 19. Each legislature shall make appropri

government.

Vacancies in office.

ations for the expenses of the government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session, and all appropriations shall end with such fiscal quarter. And whenever it is deemed necessary to make further appropriations for deficiencies, the same shall require a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to each house, and shall not exceed the amount of revenue authorized by law to be raised in such time. Bills making appropriations for the pay of members and officers of the legislature, and for the salaries of the officers of the government, shall contain no provision on any other subject. (5 Neb., 566; 14 Neb., 444.)

SEC. 20. All offices created by this constitution shall become vacant by the death of the incumbent, by removal from the state, resignation, conviction of a felony, impeachment, or becoming of unsound mind. And the legislature shall provide by general law for the filling of such vacancy when no provision is made for that purpose in this constitution.

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SEC. 21. The legislature shall not authorize any games of chance, lottery, or gift enterprise under any pretense, or for any purpose whatever.

Lotteries pro

drawn from

SEC. 22. No allowance shall be made for the Money, how incidental expenses of any state officer except the treasury. same be made by general appropriation and upon an account specifying each item. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of a specific appropriation made by law, and on the presentation of a warrant issued by the auditor thereon, and no money shall be diverted from any appropriation made for any purpose, or taken from any fund whatever, either by joint or separate resolution. The auditor shall within sixty days after the adjournment of each session of the legislation, prepare and publish a full statement of all moneys expended at such session, specifying the amount of each item, and to whom and for what paid. (4 Neb., 216; 5 Neb., 566; 6 Neb., 17, 517; 9 Neb., 469; 12 Neb., 408; 14 Neb., 443; 15 Neb., 458, 609.)

liable for debate.

SEC. 23. No member of the legislature shall be Members not liable in any civil or criminal action whatever for words spoken in debate.

effect, when.

SEC. 24. No act shall take effect until three cal- Acts shall take endar months after the adjournment of the session at which it passed, unless in case of emergency (to be expressed in the preamble or body of the act) the legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house otherwise direct. All laws shall be published in book form within sixty days after the adjournment of each session,

Senatorial stricts.

and distributed among the several counties in such manner as the legislature may provide. (8 Neb., 148.)

ARTICLE [IV.]-LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT. *

Until otherwise provided by law, senatorial and representative districts shall be formed, and senators and representatives apportioned, as follows:

SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.

District No. 1. Shall consist of the county of Richardson, and be entitled to two senators.

District No. 2. Shall consist of the county of Nemaha, and be entitled to two senators.

District No. 3. Shall consist of the county of Otoe, and be entitled to two senators.

District No. 4. Shall consist of the county of Cass, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 5. Shall consist of the county of Douglas, and be entitled to two senators.

District No. 6. Shall consist of the counties of Douglas and Sarpy, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 7. Shall consist of the county of Washington, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 8. Shall consist of the county of Dodge, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 9. Shall consist of the county of Cuming, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 10. Shall consist of the counties of Burt and Dakota, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 11. Shall consist of the counties of

*See chapter Apportionment, Compiled Statutes, 1887.

Madison, Stanton, Wayne, Pierce, Antelope, and Boone, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 12. Shall consist of the counties of Dixon, Cedar, Knox, Holt, and the unorganized territory west of Holt, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 13. Shall consist of the counties of Hall, Howard, Merrick, Greeley, and the unorganized territory north of Greely, and be entitled to

one senator.

District No. 14. Shall consist of the counties of Platte and Colfax, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 15. Shall consist of the counties of Butler and Polk, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 16. Shall consist of the county of Saunders, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 17. Shall consist of the county of Lancaster, and be entitled to two senators.

District No. 18. Shall consist of the counties of Johnson and Pawnee, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 19. Shall consist of the counties of Gage and Jefferson, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 20. Shall consist of the county of Saline, and be entitled to one sentor.

District No. 21. Shall consist of the county of Seward, and be entitled to one senator.

District No. 22. Shall consist of the counties of York and Hamilton, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 23. Shall consist of the counties of Fillmore and Clay, and be entitled to one senator. District No. 24.

Shall consist of the counties of

Adams, Webster, Nuckolls, and Thayer, and be entitled to one senator.

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