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Rh on any question shall, at the desire of any two members, be entered on the journal.

Section 14.The sessions of each House, and of the committees of the whole, shall be open, unless when the business is such as ought to be kept secret.

Section 15.Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

Section 16.The members of the General Assembly shall, in all cases except treason, felony, violation of their oath of office, and breach or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the sessions of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House they shall not be questioned in any other place.

Section 17.No law shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended on .its passage through either House as to change its original purpose.

Section 18.The style of the laws of this State shall be: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado."

Section 19.No act of the General Assembly shall take effect until ninety days after its passage, unless in case of emergency, (which shall be expressed in the preamble or body of the Act) the General Assembly shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct. No bill except the general appropriation for the expenses of the government only introduced in either House of the General Assembly after the first twenty-five days of the session shall become a law.

Section 20.No bill shall be considered or become a law unless referred to a committee, returned therefrom, and printed for the use of the members.

Section 21.No bill, except general appropriation bills, shall be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title ; but if any subject shall be embraced in any act which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be so expressed.

Section 22.Every bill shall be read at length, on three different days in each House; all substantial amendments made thereto shall be printed for the use of the members, before the final vote is taken on the bill; and no bill shall become a law, except by vote of a majority of all the members elected to each House, nor unless on its final passage the vote be taken by ayes and noes, and the names of those voting be entered on the journal.

Section 23.No amendment to any bill by one House shall be concurred in by the other, nor shall the report of any Committee of Conference be adopted in either House except by a vote of a 22