CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Article 4, Section 60. Amendment of bill; orders, votes and resolutions.

No bill shall be so amended in its passage through either house as to change its original purpose, and no law shall be passed except by bill; but orders, votes, and resolutions of both houses, affecting the prerogatives and duties thereof, or relating to adjournment, to amendments to the Constitution, to the investiga tion of public officers, and the like, shall not require the signature of the governor; and such resolutions, orders, and votes, may empower legislative committees to administer oaths, to send for persons and papers, and generally make legislative investigations effective.

SOURCES: 1832 art V § 16; 1869 art IV § 25.
 


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