the Legislative Assembly, and on the conviction thereof in the civil courts, shall be liable to such further penalty as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 42. Any person who shall directly or indirectly offer give or promise any money or thing of value, testimonial, privilege or personal advantage, to any executive or judicial officer or member of the Legislative Assembly, to influence him in the performance of any of his official or public duties, shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and be punished in such manner as shall be provided by law. SEC. 43. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the Legislative Assembly, or of public officers of the State, or of any municipal division thereof, and the occupation or practice of solicitation of such members or officers, to influence their official action, shall be defined by law, and shall be punishable by fine and imprisonment. SEC. 44. A member who has a personal or private interest in any measure or bill proposed or pending before the Legislative Assembly shall disclose the fact to the House of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon. SEC. 45. When vacancies occur in either house the Governor, or the person exercising the functions of the Governor, shall issue writs of election to fill the same. ARTICLE VI. APPORTIONMENT AND REPRESENTATION. SECTION I. One Representative in the Congress of the United States shall be elected from the State at large the first Tuesday in October, 1889, and thereafter at such times and places and in such manner as may be prescribed by law. When a new apportionment shall be made by Congress the Legislative Assembly shall divide the State into congressional districts accordingly. SEC. 2. The Legislative Assembly shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State in the year 1895 and every tenth year thereafter; and at the session next following such enumeration, and also at the session next following an enumeration made by the authority of the United States, shall revise and adjust the apportionment for Representatives on the basis of such enumeration according to ratios to be fixed by law. SEC. 3. Representative districts may be altered from time to time as public convenience may require. When a Kepresentative district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. No county shall be divided in the formation of Representative districts. SEC. 4. Whenever new counties are created, each of said counties shall be entitled to one Senator, but in no case shall a Senatorial district consist of more than one county. SEC. 5. The Senatorial districts of the State shall be constituted and numbered as follows: The County of Beaverhead shall constitute the First district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Madison shall constitute the Second district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Gallatin shall constitute the Third district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Jefferson shall constitute the Fourth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Deer Lodge shall constitute the Fifth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Missoula shall constitute the Sixth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Lewis and Clarke shall constitute the Seventh district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Choteau shall constitute the Eighth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Meagher shall constitute the Ninth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Silver Bow shall constitute the Tenth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Custer shall constitute the Eleventh district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Yellowstone shall constitute the Twelfth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Dawson shall constitute the Thirteenth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Fergus shall constitute the Fourteenth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Park shall constitute the Fifteenth district, and be entitled to one Senator. The County of Cascade shall constitute the Sixteenth district, and be entitled to one Senator. SEC. 6. Until an apportionment of Representatives be made in accordance with the provisions of this Article, they shall be divided among the several counties of the State in the following manner: The County of Beaverhead shall have two (2). The County of Jefferson shall have three (3). The County of Lewis and Clarke shall have eight (8). The County of Park shall have two (2). The County of Cascade shall have two (2). The Counties of Dawson and Cascade shall have one (1) jointly. The Counties of Deer Lodge and Beaverhead shall have one (1) jointly. The Counties of Jefferson and Gallatin shall have one (1) jointly. ARTICLE VII. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SECTION I. The Executive Department shall consist of a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney. General, State Treasurer, State Auditor and Superintendent of Public Instruction, each of whom shall hold his office for four years, or until his successor is elected and qualified, beginning on the first Monday of January next succeeding his election, except that the terms of office of those who are elected at the first election shall begin when the State shall be admitted into the Union, and shall end on the first Monday of January A. D. 1893. The officers of the executive department, excepting the Lieutenant Governor, shall during their terms of office reside at the seat of government, where they shall keep the public records, books and papers. They shall perform such duties as are prescribed in this Constitution and by the laws of the State. The State Treasurer shall not be eligible to his office for the succeeding term. SEC. 2. The officers provided for in section 1 of this article, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State at the time and place of voting for members of the Legislative Assembly, and the persons, respectively, having the highest number of votes for the office voted for shall be elected; but if two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for any one of said offices, the two houses of the Legislative Assembly, at its next regular session, shall forthwith, by joint ballot, elect one of such persons for said office. The returns of election for the officers named in section I shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed by law, and all contested elections of the same, other than provided for in this section, shall be determined as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 3. No person shall be eligible to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Superintendent of Public Instruction, unless he shall have attained the age of thirty years at the time of his election, nor to the office of Secretary of State, State Auditor, or State Treasurer. unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-five years, nor to the office of Attorney General unless he shall have attained the age of thirty years, and have been admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State, or Territory of Montana, and be in good standing at the time of his election. In addition to the qualifications above prescribed, each of the officers named shall be a citizen of the United States, and have resided within the State or Territory two years next preceding his election. SEC. 4. Until otherwise provided by law, the Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall quarterly as due, during their continuance in office, receive for their services compensation, which is fixed as follows: Governor, five thousand dollars per annum; Secretary of State, three thousand dollars per annum; Superintendent of Public Instruction, two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The Lieutenant-Governor shall receive the same per diem as may be prescribed by law, for the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, to be allowed only during the sessions of the Legislative Assembly. The compensations enumerated shall be in full for all services by said officers respectively rendered in any official capacity or employment whatever during their respective terms of office, and the salary of no official shall be increased during his term of office. No officer named in this section shall receive, for the performance of any official duty, any fee for his own use, but all fees fixed by law for the performance by any officer of any official duty, shall be collected in advance, and deposited with the State Treasurer quarterly to the credit of the State. officer mentioned in this Section shall be eligible to or hold any other public office, except member of the State Board of Education during his term of office. No |