History of the State of California: From the Period of the Conquest by Spain to Her Occupation by the United States of AmericaFrost, John
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History of the State of California: From the Period of the Conquest by Spain to Her Occupation by the United States of America
Frost, John
California -- Gold discoveries; California -- History
SEC. 20. No Senator or member of Assembly shall, during the term for
which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of
profit, under this State, which shall have been created, or the
emoluments of which shall have been increased, during such term,
except such office as may be filled by elections by the people.
SEC. 21. No person holding any lucrative office under the United
States, or any other power, shall be eligible to any civil office of
profit, under this State; provided, that officers in the militia, to
which there is attached no annual salary, or local officers and
postmasters whose compensation does not exceed five hundred dollars
per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative.
SEC. 22. No person who shall be convicted of the embezzlement or
defalcation of the public funds of this State, shall ever be eligible
to any office of honor, trust, or profit, under the State; and the
Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, pass a law providing for
the punishment of such embezzlement, or defalcation as a felony.
SEC. 23. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence
of appropriations made by law. An accurate statement of the receipts
and expenditures of the public moneys shall be attached to, and
published with, the laws, at every regular session of the Legislature.
SEC. 24. The members of the Legislature shall receive for their
services, a compensation to be fixed by law, and paid out of the
public treasury; but no increase of the compensation shall take effect
during the term for which the members of either house shall have been
elected.
SEC. 25. Every law enacted by the Legislature, shall embrace but one
object, and that shall be expressed in the title; and no law shall be
revised, or amended, by reference to its title; but in such case, the
act revised, or section amended, shall be re-enacted and published at
length.
SEC. 26. No divorce shall be granted by the Legislature.
SEC. 27. No lottery shall be authorized by this State, nor shall the
sale of lottery tickets be allowed.
SEC. 28. The enumeration of the inhabitants of this State shall be
taken, under the direction of the Legislature, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five, and at the end of every ten years thereafter; and
these enumerations, together with the census that may be taken, under
the direction of the Congress of the United States, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty, and every subsequent ten years,
shall serve as the basis of representation in both houses of the
Legislature.
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