Article IV.
Legislative Department

Section 33. Meeting of the legislature

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Meeting of legislature; adjournment

The legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the second Wednesday in January of each year and at no other place or time unless as provided in this constitution; and each such annual regular session shall adjourn without day, at such time as shall be determined by concurrent resolution, at 12 o’clock noon. No motion, bill or resolution pending in one session of any term shall carry over into a later regular session.

Meeting of legislature; adjournment

The legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Wednesday in January, nineteen hundred nine, and on the first Wednesday in January every second year thereafter; and at no other place or time unless as provided in this constitution; and shall adjourn without day, at such time as shall be determined by concurrent resolution, at twelve o’clock noon.

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1850 Article IV. Section 32

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Meeting of the legislature

The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Wednesday in January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and on the first Wednesday in January of every second year thereafter, and at no other place or time, unless as provided in the Constitution of the State, and shall adjourn without day at such time as the Legislature shall fix by concurrent resolution. No new bill shall be introduced into either house of the Legislature after the first fifty days of a session shall have expired. The compensation of the members of the Legislature shall be three dollars per day for actual attendance, and when absent on account of sickness, but the Legislature may allow extra compensation to the members from the territory of the Upper Peninsula not exceeding two dollars per day during the session.

Meeting of the legislature

The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government on the first Wednesday in February next, and on the first Wednesday in January of every second year thereafter, and at no other place or time, unless as provided in this constitution.

Meetings of the legislature

The legislature shall meet on the first Monday in January in every year, and at no other period, unless otherwise directed by law, or provided for in this constitution.

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