ther, that whenever any county, or city and county, or city, or town shall provide for the support of minor orphans, or half orphans, or abandoned children, or aged persons in indigent circumstances, such county, city and county, city, or town shail be entitled to receive the same pro rata appropriations as may be granted to such institutions under church or other control. An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of public moneys shall be attached to and published with the laws at every regular session of the Legislature. Sec. 23. The members of the Legislature shall receive for their services a per diem and mileage, to be fixed by law, and paid out of the public treasury; such per diem shall not exceed eight dollars, and such mileage shall not exceed ten cents per mile, and for contingent expenses not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each session. No increase in compensation or mileage shall take effect during the term for which the members of either house shall have been elected, and the pay of no attache shall be increased after he is elected or appointed. Sec. 24. Every Act shall embrace but one subject, which subject shall be expressed in its title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an Act which shall not be expressed in its title, such Act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in its title. 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 as revised or amended; and all laws of the State of California, and all tion amended; and all laws of the State of California, and all official writings, and the executive, legislative and judicial proceedings, shall be conducted, preserved and published in no other than the English language. Sec. 25. The Legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say: First Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of Justices of the Peace, Police Judges and of Constables. -- Second For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors. Third Regulating the practice of courts of justice. Fourth Providing for changing the venue in civil or criminal actions. Fifth Granting divorces. Sixth-Changing the names of persons or places. Seventh- Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining or vacating roads, highways, streets, alleys, town plots, parks, cemeteries, graveyards or public grounds not owned by the State. Eighth Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries and providing for their compensation. Ninth - Regulating county and township business, or the election of county and township officers. Tenth - For the assessment or collection of taxes. Eleventh Providing for conducting elections, or designating the places of voting, except on the organization of new counties. Twelfth Affecting estates of deceased persons, minors or other persons under legal disabilities. Thirteenth- Extending the time for the collection of taxes. Fourteenth Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills or other instruments. Fifteenth- Refunding money paid into the State treasury. Sixteenth Releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or person to this State, or to any municipal corporation therein. Seventeenth-Declaring any person of age, or authorizing any minor to sell, lease or incumber his or her property. 1 Eighteenth- Legalizing, except as against the State, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer. Nineteenth- Granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive right, privilege or immunity. Twentieth-Exempting property from taxation. Twenty-first-Changing county seats. Twenty-second - Restoring to citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes. Twenty-third - Regulating the rate of interest on money. Twenty-fourth-Authorizing the creation, extension or impair ing of liens. Twenty-fifth-Chartering or licensing ferries, bridges or roads. Twenty-sixth-Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures. Twenty-seventh- Providing for the management of common schools. Twenty-eighth-Creating offices or prescribing the powers and duties of officers in counties, cities, cities and counties, township, election or school districts. Twenty-ninth- Affecting the fees or salary of any officer. - Changing the law of descent or succession. Thirty-first Authorizing the adoption or legitimation of chil dren. Thirty-second- For limitation of civil or criminal actions. Thirty-third In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable. Sec. 26. The Legislature shall have no power to authorize lotteries or gift enterprises for any purpose, and shall pass laws to prohibit the sale in this State of lottery or gift enterprise tickets, or tickets in any scheme in the nature of a lottery. The Legislature shall pass laws to regulate and prohibit the buying and selling of the shares of the capital stock of corporations in any stock board, stock exchange, or stock market under the control of any association. All contracts for the sale of shares of the capital stock of any corporation or association, on margin, or to be delivered at a future day, shall be void, and any money paid on such contracts may be recovered by the party paying it by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction. Sec. 27. When a congressional district shall be composed of two or more counties, it shall not be separated by any county belonging to another district. No county, or city and county, shall be divided in forming a congressional district so as to attach one portion of a county, or city and county, to another county, or city and county, except in cases where one county, or city and county, has more population than the ratio required for one or more congressmen; but the Legislature may divide any county, or city and county, into as many congressional districts as it may be entitled to by law. Any county, or city and county, containing a population greater than the number required for one congressional district, shall be formed into one or more congressional districts, according to the population thereof, and any residue, after forming such district or districts, shall be attached, by compact adjoining assembly districts, to a contiguous county or counties, and form a congressional district. In dividing a county, or city and county, into congressional districts, no assembly district shall be divided so as to form a part of more than one congressional district, and every such congressional district shall be composed of compact, contiguous assembly districts. Sec. 28. In all elections by the Legislature the members thereof shall vote viva voce, and the vote shall be entered on the journal. Sec. 29. The general appropriation bill shall contain no item or items of appropriation other than such as are required to pay the salaries of the State officers, the expenses of the government, and of the institutions under the exclusive control and management of the State. Sec. 30. Neither the Legislature, nor any county, city and county, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, shall ever make an appropriation, or pay from any public fund whatever, or grant anything to or in aid of any religious sect, church, creed or sectarian purpose, or help to support or sustain any school, college, university, hospital, or other institution controlled by any religious creed, church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of personal property or real estate ever be made by the State, or any city, city and county, town or other municipal corporation, for any religious creed, church or sectarian purpose whatever: Provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the Legislature granting aid pursuant to section twenty-two of this article. Sec. 31. The Legislature shall have no power to give or to lend, or to authorize the giving or lending, of the credit of the State, or of any county, city and county, city, township or other political corporation or subdivision of the State now existing, or that may be hereafter established, in aid of or to any person, association or corporation, whether municipal or otherwise, or to pledge the credit thereof in any manner whatever, for the payment of the liabilities of any individual, association, municipal or other corporation whatever; nor shall it have power to make any gift, or authorize the making of any gift, of any public money or thing of value, to any individual, municipal or other corporation whatever: Provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent the Legislature granting aid pursuant to section twenty-two of this article; and it shall not have power to authorize the State, or any political subdivision thereof, to subscribe for stock, or to become a stockholder in any corporation whatever. Sec. 32. The Legislature shall have no power to grant, or authorize any county or municipal authority to grant, any extra compensation or allowance to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after service has been rendered, or a contract has been entered into and performed, in whole or in part; nor to pay, or to authorize the payment of any claim hereafter created against the State, or any county or municipality of the State, under any agreement or contract made without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements or contracts shall be null and void. Sec. 33. The Legislature shall pass laws for the regulation and limitation of the charges for services performed and commodities furnished by telegraph and gas corporations, and the charges by corporations or individuals for storage and wharfage, in which there is a public use; and where laws shall provide for the selection of any person or officer to regulate and litmit such rates, no such person or officer shall be selected by any corporation or individual interested in the business to be regulated, and no person shall be selected who is an officer or stockholder in any such corporation. Sec. 34. No bill making an appropriation of money, except the general appropriation bill, shall contain more than one item of appropriation, and that for one single and certain purpose, to be therein expressed. Sec. 35. Any person who seeks to influence the vote of a member of the Legislature by bribery, promise of reward, intimidation or any other dishonest means, shall be guilty of lobbying, which is hereby declared a felony; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide, by law, for the punishment of this crime. Any member of the Legislature who shall be influenced, in his vote or action upon any matter pending before the Legislature, by any reward, or promise of future reward, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, in addition to such punishment as may be provided by law, shall be disfranchised and forever disqualified from holding any office or public trust. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding against any person who may be charged with having committed the offense of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or with having been influenced in his vote or action, as a member of the Legislature, by reward, or promise of future reward, and shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that it may criminate him |