State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-02-09

election.
PrUpided, however, that the General
Assembly shall have power to regulate by
Law the mode of baIlotting for Senators,
within the several Counties,and, TO prescribe
the means and the manner by which the
result of the ballottng shall he ascertained,
and through which the Senators chosen
shall be certified of their election, and for
filling all vacancies in thes Senate, which
shall happen by death, resignation or 9TH
erwise. But they shall not have power to
apporton the Senators to the several cotm-
ties, otherwise than according to the popu-
lation thereof agreoably to the provisions
herein before ordained.
ARTICLE 10TH. The Senate shall have
the like powers to decide on the election
and qualifications of, and to eXpeI any of
its members, make its own rules, and ap-
point its own officers, as are incident to, or
are possessed by, the House of Representa-
tives. A majority shall constitute quorum.
The Lieutenant Governor shall be Prcs-
dent Of the Senate, except when he shall
exercise the office of Governor, or when
his office shall be vacant, or in his absence,
in which cases the Senate shall appoint one
of its own members, To be President of the
Senate, pro tempore. And the President of
the Senate shall have Il casting vote, but no
other.
ARTICLE llTH. The Senate shall have
the sole power of trying and deciding upon
all mpeachmcuts-when sitting for that
purpose, they shall be Oh oath or allirma-
ton, and no person shall be convicted,
without the concurrence of two thirds Of
the members present. Judgment in cases
OF impeachment, shall not extend farther
than to removal from Office and disquaI-
fication to hold or enjoying any office of
honor, or profit, or trust under this State.
But The parry convicted shall, nevertheless,
he liable and subject to indictment, trial,
Judgment and punishment, according to
Law.
ARTICLE 18TH. The Supreme Executive
power Of the State, shall be exercised by
the Governor, or, in case of his absence
or disability, by the Lieut.. Governor; who
shall have all the powers, and perform all
the duties vested in, and enjoned upon
the Governor and Council, by the Elev-
enth and Twenty Sections of the
second Chapter Of the Constitution, as at
present established, excepting that he shall
not sit as a Judge, in case of impeachment,
nor grant reprlcve or pardon, in any such
case; nor shall he command the forces of
the State in person, i'll time of war; or in
surrectlon unless 10y advice and consent
Of the Senate; and no longer than they
shall approve thereof. The Governor may
have u Secretary Of civil and military at
fairs, to be by him appointed during pleas
urc, whose services he may at all times
command; and for whose compensation
provision shall be made by law.
ARTICLE 18th. The votes for Governor,
Lieutenant-Gove and Treasurer of the
State, shall be sorted and counted, and the
result declared, by Il committee appointed
by the Senate and House of Representa-
lives. If, at any time, there shall be no
election, by the trecmen, Of Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, and Treasurer, of
the State, the Senate and House Of Rep
rescntativcs shall, by Joint ballot, elect to
FIJI the stiiee. rot filed by Tie frcemen as
aforesaid, one of the three candidates for
such office, IF there be so many for whom
the greatest number of votes shall have
been returned
ARTICLE l4TH. The Secretary of State,
and all officers, whose elections are not
otherwise provided for, and who under
the existing provisions Of the Constitution,
are elected by the Council and House of
Representatives,, shall, hereafter, he elect
cd by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatiyes, in joint assembly, at which
the presiding officer of the Senate, shall
preside; aud such presiding officer in such
Joint assembly shall have a casting vote,
and no other.
ARTICLE 18TH. Every bill which shall
have passed the Senate and House of Rep
resenlatives, shall, before it become law,
be presented to the Governor; if he ap-
prove, he shall sign it; if not, he shall re-
turn it, with his objections, in writing, TO
the House in which it shall have origina-
ted which shall proceed to reconsider it,
II, upon such reconsideration, n majority
Of the House shall pass the bill, it shall, to-
gether with the objections, be sent to the
other House, by which it shall, likewise, be
reconsidered, and, if approved by major
ity of that House, it shall become u law.
Bur, in all such cases, the votes of both
Houses shall be taken by yeas and nays,
and the mans of the persons, voting for or
against the bill, shall be entered on the
journal Of each House, respectively. If any
bill shall not be returned by the Governor,
as aforesaid, within five days, Sundays
eXcepted) after it shall have been presented
to him, the same shall become a law, in
like manner, as if he had signed it; unless
the two Houses, by their adjournment,
within three days after the presentment of
such bill, shall prevent its return in which !
case, it shall not become n law.
ARTICLE 18TH. The Writ of Ilabeas
Corpus shall in no case be suspended. 1t /
shall be a writ, ssuable of right; and the !
General Assembly shall make provision TO
render it a speedy and eflectua remedy in
all cases proper therefor.
ARTICLE GOTH. Such parts and proyis-
ions only of the Constitution of this State,
established by Convention on the ninth day |
Of Inlv one Thousand Snpen hundred mud |