Constitution of the State of Texas.. Rules of the House of Representatives with A Legislative Precedents.... Progress of a House Bill.. Rules of the Senate with Annotations... Index to State Constitution... Index to Rules of the House. Index to Legislative Precedents.. NOTE. Most of the precedents and some of the annotati tained in this Manual were taken from the Manua Thirty-third Legislature. The legislative preceden been brought up to date. 1 1 eral welfare, and secure the blessings of libert and our posterity, do ordain and establish thi for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. SECTION I. All legislative powers herein granted shall Congress of the United States, which shall Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION II. 1. The House of Representatives shall be members chosen every second year by the peop eral States, and the electors in each State s qualifications requisite for electors of the m branch of the State Legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative who attained to the age of twenty-five years, and be a citizen of the United States, and who sha elected, be an inhabitant of that State in whic chosen. 3. Representatives and direct taxes shall b among the several States which may be includ union, according to their respective numbers, v determined by adding to the whole number of including those bound to service for a term excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all 8 TEXAS LEGISLATIVE MANUAL. The actual enumeration shall be made within th after the first meeting of the Congress of the Unit and within every subsequent term of ten years, in s ner as they shall by law direct. The number of atives shall not exceed one for every thirty thou each State shall have at least one representative; a such enumeration shall be made, the State of Ne shire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachuse Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Co five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvan Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation State, the executive authority thereof shall issue election to fill such vacancies. 5. The House of Representatives shall choo Speaker and other officers, and shall have the so of impeachment. SECTION III. 1. The Senate of the United States shall be of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Le thereof, for six years, and each Senator shall have 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled i quence of the first election, they shall be divided, as as may be, into three classes. The seats of the Ser the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of th year, of the second class at the expiration of the fou and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth that one-third may be chosen every second year; vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, du recess of the Legislature of any State, the executive may make temporary appointments until the next of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacan 3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not tained to the age of thirty years, and been nine year zen of the United States, and who shall not, when be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be 4. The Vice-President of the United States President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unl be equally divided. |
