Joint Resolution No. 18 of 1859

Article IV

Sec. 15: The compensation of the members of the Legislature shall be three dollars a per day for actual attendance, and when absent on account of sickness, for the first sixty days of the session of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and for the first forty days of every subsequent session, and nothing thereafter but the Legislature may allow extra compensation to the members from the territory of the Upper Peninsula not exceeding two dollars per day during the session. When convened in extra session their compensation shall be three dollars a day for the first twenty days, and nothing thereafter; and they shall legislate on no other subjects than those expressly stated in the Governor’s proclamation, or submitted to them by special message. They shall be entitled to ten cents and no more for every mile actually traveled, going to and returning from the place of meeting, on the usually traveled route; and for stationery and newspapers not exceeding five dollars for each member during any session. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of the laws, journals and documents of the Legislature of which he was a member; but shall not receive at the expense of the State, books, newspapers, or other perquisites of office, not expressly authorized by this constitution.

Sec. 28: No new bill shall be introduced into either house of the Legislature during the last three after the first fifty days of the a session shall have expired, without the unanimous consent of the house in which it originates.

Sec. 33: The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Wednesday in February next January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and on the first Wednesday in January of in every second year thereafter, and at no other place or time, unless as provided in this the Constitution of the State, and shall adjourn without day at such time as the Legislature shall fix by concurrent resolution.

Sources

• Joint Resolution No. 18 of 1859 (PDF)
• Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan Passed at the Regular Session of 1859, pp. 1105–1106 (HathiTrust)
• Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual, 1909-1910, p. 552 (HathiTrust)
• The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan, 1867, Vol. I, p. xiv (HathiTrust)
• The Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Michigan, 1867, Vol. I, pp. xvi–xvii (HathiTrust)