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ve cents per mile both while coming to the seat of government and while returning home, the said distance to be computed by the nearest line or route of public travel. The compensation of the presiding officers of the two houses shall be eight dollars per day and mileage. Should an extra session of the General Assembly be called, the members and presiding officers shall receive a like rate of compensation for a period not exceeding twenty days." III. By adding at the end of article two a new section, to wit: [Sidenote: Restricting local, private, and special legislation.] "SEC. 29. The General Assembly shall not pass any local, private, or special act or resolution: "Relating to the establishment of courts inferior to the Superior Court; "Relating to the appointment of justices of the peace; "Relating to health, sanitation, and abatement of nuisances; "Changing the names of cities, towns, and townships; "Authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, maintaining, or discontinuing highways, streets, or alleys; "Relating to ferries or bridges; "Relating to game or hunting; "Relating to nonnavigable streams; "Relating to cemeteries; "Relating to the pay of jurors; "Erecting new townships, or changing township lines, or establishing or changing the lines of school districts; "Remitting fines, penalties, and forfeitures, or refunding moneys legally paid into the public treasury; "Regulating labor, trade, mining, or manufacturing; "Extending the time for the assessment or collection of taxes or otherwise relieving any collector of taxes from the due performance of his official duties or his sureties from liability; "Giving effect to informal wills and deeds. "Nor shall the General Assembly enact any such local, private, or special act by the partial repeal of a general law; but the General Assembly may at any time repeal local, private, or special laws enacted by it. "Any local, private, or special act or resolution passed in violation of the provisions of this section shall be void. "The General Assembly shall have power to pass general laws regulating the matters set out in this section." [Sidenote: Fixing the beginning of the term of officers of the executive department.] IV. By striking out the words "first day of," in section one of article three and inserting in lieu thereof the words "second Wednesday after the first Monday in." [Sidenote: Providing for special eme
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