this article shall not apply to any bill, or the amendments to any bill, which shall be reported to the Legislature by commissioners who have been appointed pursuant to law to revise the statutes. 824. Every law which imposes, continues or revives a tax shall distinctly state the tax and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient to refer to any other law to fix such tax or object. $25. On the final passage, in either House of the Legislature, of any act which imposes, continues or revives a tax, or creates a debt or charge, or makes, continues or revives any appropriation of public or trust money or property, or releases, discharges or commutes any claim or demand of the State, the question shall be taken by yeas and nays, which shall be duly entered upon the Journals, and three-fifths of all the members elected to either House shall, in all such cases, be necessary to constitute a quorum therein. EXEMPTIONS FROM ARREST. EXPULSION OF MEMBERS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CONTEMPT. (Extract from chapter 682, Laws of 1892.) 82. Exemption of Members and Officers from Arrest.-A member of the Legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust in public office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen days before and after each session, or while absent for not more than fourteen days during the session with the leave of the House of which he is a member. An officer of either House shall be privileged from arrest in such a civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance upon the House. Either House shall have the power to discharge from arrest any of its members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest. Each House 83. Expulsion of Members. has the power to expel any of its members after the report of a committee to inquire into the charges against him shall have been made. $4. Contempts of Either House. Each House may punish by imprisonment not extending beyond the same session of the Legislature, as for a contempt, for the following offenses only: 1. Arresting a member or officer of either House in violation of his privilege from arrest; 2. Disorderly conduct of its members, officers or others in the immediate view and presence of the House, tending to interrupt its proceedings; 3. The publication of a false and malicious report of its proceedings, or of the conduct of a member in his legislative capacity; 4. Giving or offering a bribe to a member or attempting by menace or other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, to influence a member in giving or withholding his vote or in not attending meetings of the House of which he is a member; 5. Neglect to attend or to be examined as a witness before the House when duly required to give testimony in a legislative proceeding. LIMITATION OF LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES. (Extract from chapter 682, Laws of 1892.) 21. Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, order to be printed more than four thousand copies of any paper or document, or the purchase of any books, the aggregate cost of which shall exceed one hundred dollars; or appoint any committee of its own members or others at the public expense, except in case of contested elections; or incur any expense whatever except as provided by this chapter. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES. TESTIMONY IN LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. (Extract from chapter 682, Laws of 1892.) $60. Testimony before Legislative Committees. A legislative committee may require the attendance of witnesses in this State, whom the committee may wish to examine, or may issue a commission for the examination of witnesses who are out of the State or unable to attend the committee, or excuseà from attendance, which commission, if directed by the House or Legislature by which the committee is appointed, may be executed during the recess of the Legislature. A commission, issued as provided by this section, shall be in the form used in the courts of record of this State, and shall be executed in like manner. Unless otherwise instructed by the committee appointing them, the commissioners shall examine privately every witness attending before them, and shall not make public the particulars of such examination. $61. Sub-Committees.-Whenever any standing committee of either House of the Legislature shall be required to make an inquiry or investigation, such committee may appoint a sub-committee of not less than three of its own members to make such inquiry or investigation and to take testimony in relation thereto; and such committee or sub-committee and the chairman thereof shall respectively have all the powers and authority which are conferred by law upon any committee which is authorized to send for persons or papers, or upon the chairman thereof. $62. Witnesses' Fees. Any person attending as a witness under the provisions of the last two sections shall receive the same fees as are allowed witnesses in civil actions in courts of record. Such fees need not be prepaid, but the Comptroller, upon the certificate of the chairman of the committee, and proof by affidavit or otherwise that the same is due, shall draw his warrant for the payment of the amount thereof. 863. Expenses of Committee. Whenever, by resolution of either House, a committee duly appointed by it, shall be directed to conduct an investigation or take testimony in any other place than the city of Albany, the Comptroller shall draw his warrant for the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of the committee or sub-committee having in charge such investigation, inquiry or taking of testimony, and of the officers and employes authorized to accompany them, upon the rendition of an itemized bill of such expenses, certified by the chairman of the committee and approved by the presiding officer of the House by which the committee was appointed, and upon proof, by affidavit or otherwise, that the same is due. PROCEEDINGS PRELIMINARY TO CONTESTED SEATS. (Extract from chapter 682, Laws of 1892.) $64. Contested Elections. Upon the application of any person desirous of obtaining |