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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 191. 1900. 83 council may prescribe; and at such elections the voters of each legis- —wrm of service. ew. lative district shall choose five delegates to represent them in the house of delegates from the date of their election and qualification until .`.wo ’ears from and after the first day of January next ensuing; of all which thirty dayS’ notice shall be given by publication in the Official Gazette, or by printed notices distributed and posted throughout the district, or by both, as the executive council may prescribe. At such Qualified voterselections all citizens of Porto Rico shall be allowed to vote who have been bona fide residents for one year and who possess the other qualifications of voters under the laws and military orders in force on the first day of March, nineteen hundred, subject to such modifications and additional qualifications and such regulations and restrictionsas to registration as may be prescribed by the executive council. The ors¤f¤(i¤fi<>¤ M house of delegates so chosen shall convene at the capital and organize h°uSB° ° °g°t°s' by the election of a speaker, a clerk, a sergeant—at-arms, and such other officersand assistants as it may require, at such time as may be designated by the executive council; but it shall not continue in ses- Length ofsession. sion longer than sixty days in any one year, unless called by the governor to meet in extraordinary session. The enacting clause of the nnacnng clause of laws shall be, "Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of Porto "“”· Rico;" and each member of the house of delegates shall be paid for sn1¤ny,em.,nsmemhis services at the rate of five dollars per day for each day’s attend- bm ance while the house is in session, and mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled each way to and from each session of the legislative assembly. All future elections of delegates shall be governed by the provisions Existing provisions hereof, so far as they are applicable, until the legislative assembly §§,,'},g§§ 115,9 f§§§j,i shall otherwise provide. *“’°· Sec. 30. That the house of delegates shall be the sole judge of the Powers of house or elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and shall have d“°1°g"°s‘ and exercise all the powers with respect to the conduct of its (proceedings that usually appertain to parliamentary legislative be ies. No person shall be eligible to membership in the house of delegates Qualifications of who is not twenty-five years of age and able to read and write either m"mb°“‘ the Spanish or the English language, or who is not possessed in his giwn right of taxable property, real or personal, situated in Porto 1co. Sec. 31. That all bills may originate in either house, but no bill €t?mS= P¤¤S¤€** 0*- shall become a law unless it be passed in each house by a majority vote ' of all the members belonging to such house and be approved by the governor within ten days thereafter. If, when a bi l that has been -nppmvn1. passed is presented to the governor for signature, he approves the same, he s all sign it, or if not he shall return it, with his objections, —vezn, em. to that house in which it originated, which house shall enter his objections at large on its journal, and proceed to reconsider the bill. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be considered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house it shall become a law. But in all such cases · the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each house, respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it Shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislative assembly by adjournment prevent its return, in which case it Shall not be a law: Provided, Promo. ii-owelver, That all laws enacted by the legislative assembly shall be I Cpugréssmuy annul reported to the Congress of the United States, which hereby reserves “"S‘ the power and authority, if deemed advisable, to annul the same. Sec. 32. That the legislative authority herein provided shall extend ,tjq°§g§)¥_*§g§ mlihor to all matters of a legislative character n°ot locally inapplicable, includ- " '