Each member of the Legislature shall receive for his services, for and during a regular session, the sum of five hundred dollars, and ten cents for every mile he shall travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the Legislature on the most usual route. In case of an extra session of the Legislature, no additional compensation shall be allowed to any member thereof, either directly or indirectly, except for mileage, to be computed at the same rate as for a regular session. No stationery, newspapers, postage or other perquisite, except the salary and mileage above provided, shall be received from the State by any member of the Legislature for Sec. Art. his services, or in any other manner as such member. 6. III. WYOMING. No Member to Receive an Appointment. I NO MEMBER TO RECEIVE AN APPOINTMENT. Sec. 7. No member of the Legislature shall receive any 2 civil appointment within this State, or the Senate of the United 3 States, from the Governor, the Governor and Senate, or from 4 the Legislature, or from any city government, during the time 5 for which he shall have been elected; and all such appoint6 ments and all votes given for any such member for any such 7 office or appointment shall be void. A member of either house expelled for corruption shall not thereafter be eligible to either house, and punishment for contempt or disorderly behavior shall not bar an indictment for the same offense. 17. IV. No Senator or Representative 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 offices as may be filled by election by the people. 18. IV. No person hereafter convicted of embezzlement of the public money, bribery, perjury or other infamous crime shall be eligible to the General Assembly, or cupable of holding any office of trust or profit in this State. Sec. Ari. office of Senator or member of the House of Representatives who shall not be an elector, and have resided within the district from which he was elected for the term of one year next before his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or of this State, and no person elected as aforesaid shall hold his office after he shall have removed from such district. 4. V. No person shall be a Senator or Representative who, at the time of his election, is not a citizen of the United States, nor any one who has not been, for two years next preceding his election, a resident of this State, and for one year next preceding his election a resident of the county or district whence he may be chosen. Senators shall be at least twenty-five years of age and Representatives at least twenty-one years of age. 7. V. No judge of the Supreme Court or inferior courts of law or Sec. Art. No Member to Receive an Appointment. equity, Secretary of State, At- increased, during such term, except such offices as may be filled by election by the people. COLORADO. 4. IV. No person shall be a Representative or Senator who shall not have attained the age of twentyfive years, who shall not be a citizen of the United States, who shall not for at least twelve months next preceding his election have resided within the Territory included in the limits of the county or district in which he shall be chosen: Provided, That any person who, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, was a qualified elector under the Territorial laws, shall be eligible to the General Assembly. 8. V. Sec. Art. No Member to Receive an Appointment. shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this State, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such time. No person concerned in any army or navy contract, no member of Congress, nor any person holding any office under this State or the United States, except the Attorney-General, officers usually appointed by the courts of justice, respectively, attorneys-at-law and officers in the militia, holding no disqualifying office, shall, during his continuance in Congress or in office, be a Senator or Representative. Sec. Art. office having any emolument or compensation annexed thereto, under this State, or of the United States, or either of them, except justices of the peace and officers of the militia, nor any defaulter for public money, or for any legal taxes required of him, shall have a seat in either house; nor shall any Senator or Representative, after his qualification as such, be elected by the General Assembly, or appointed by the Governor, either with or without the advice or consent of the Senate, to any office or appointment having any emolument annexed thereto during the time for which he shall have been elected. Sec. Art. No Member to Receive an Appointment. State, shall be eligible to a seat in the General Assembly; nor shall any person hold more than one lucrative office at the same time, except in this Constitution expressly permitted: Provided, That offices in the militia, to which there is attached no annual salary, and the office of deputy postmaster, where the compensation does not exceed ninety dollars per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative; and provided, also, That counties containing less than one thousand polls may confer the office of clerk, recorder and auditor, or any two of said offices, upon the same person. |