Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-02-20


mating after the adoption Of this Constitution; but no
special act, authorizing such suit TO be brought max
ing compensation to any person claiming damages against
the State, shall ever be passed.
SEC. %. majority of all the members elected to
each House shall be necessary to pass every bill Joint
resolution and all bills and joint resolutions passed
shall be signed by the Presiding Officers OF the respective
Houses
right to protest. and have his protest. with his
Cor dissent, entered on the Journal
SEC. %. Every statute shall be public law, Unless
otherwise declared in the statute itself.
Sec. 2S. No shall take effect until the same shall
have been published and circulated the several coun
ties of the State by authority except in of
gency which emergency shall be declared in the pream
Bile, or in the body of the law.
SEC. 29. The members of the General Assembly shall
receive for their services, compensation TO be fixed by
law but increase of compensation shall take effect
during the session at which such increase may be made
No of the General Assembly, except the first un-
der this Constitution shall extend beyond the of
days. any special session beyond the term
of forty days.
SEC 3d. No Senator or Representative shall. during
the term for which he may have been elected be eligible
to any Office, the election which is vested in the Gen.
era Assembly, shall he be appointed to any civil Of
flee of profit which shall have been created or the emol
umens Of which shall have been increased during such
term but this latter provision shall not be construed
apply to any office elective by the People.
ARTICLE V.
EXECUTIVE.
SECTION |. The executive power Of the State shall be
vested in Governor. He shall hold his Office during four
years. and shall not be eligible than four years. in
any period of eight years
Sec. 2 There shall be a Lieutenant Governor, who
shall hold bis office during four years.
SEC. g. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall
be elected at the times and places of choosing members
of the General Assembly.
SEC. A. In voting for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
hill
Governor, and for whom Lieutenant Governor.
The of every election for Governor and Lieuten
ant Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted the
of government directed the Speaker of the House
of Representatives who shall open and publish them
the presence oil both Houses Of the General Assembly
Sec g. The persons respectively, having the highest
number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
shall be elected; bat in two persons shall
have an equal and the highest number of votes either
Office the General Assembly shall, by joint VOTE forth
with proceed elect OF the said persons Governor
or Lieutenant Governor as the case may be.
SEC 6. Contested elections, Tor Governor Lleuien,
Governor, shall be determined by the General As
sembly, in such manner may be prescribed by law.
Sec. 7. No person shall be eligible to the Office of
Governor or Lieutenant Governor who shall not have
been five years citizen of the United States, and also
resident Of the State of Indiana during the five years
next preceding his election; shall any person be eli
gibe either of the said Offices, who shall have at
tanned the age of thirty years.
Sec. 8. No member of Congress- or person holding
any Office under the United States, under this State
shall fill the Office of Governor, of Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
tenant Governor shall commence on the second Monday
of January in the year thousand eight hundred and
fifty three and the day every fourth year there
after.
SEC TO- In case of the removal of the Governor from
office, of his DEATH resignation inability dis
charge the duties of the office, the shall devove
the Lieutenant Governors and the General Assembly
SHALL by law provide for the of removal from office
DEATH resignation inability of both the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor declaring what officer shall then
Governors and such officer shall act accordingly,
until the disability be removed Governor be elected
SEC. IL. Whenever the Lieutenant Governor shall
Governor shall be unable to attend President Of
the Senate, the Senate shall elect one OF its own men,
bers, President for the occasion.
SEC. u. The Governor shall be commander n-chief
of the military and naval forces, and may call such
forces to execute the laws or to suppress insurrecon
or to repel invasion.
SEC. 49, He shall from time to time give to the Gen.
eral Assembly information touching the condition OF the
State and recommend such measures as he shall Judge
to be expedent.
Sec a. Every bill, which shall have passed both
Houses of the General Assembly shall be presented
the Governor if he approve he shall sign it, but il
he shall return it, with his objections to the House in
which shall have originated which House shall enter
the objections at large upon It's journals, and proceed
to reconsider the BILL IT, alter such reconsideration
majority of all the members elected that House. shall
agree pass the BILL shall be sent, with the Cover
nor's objections the other House, by which II shall
of all the members elected that House, it shall be
law. II any bill shall not be returned by the Governor
within three days, Sundays excepted after IT shall have
been presented to him, it shall be a law without
his signature, unless the general adjournment shall
prevent its return; in which case, it shall be law,
unless the Governor within five days next after such adj
iournment shall file such BILL with his objections thereto,
in the office of Secretary State who shall lay the
before the General Assembly at its next session, IN like
If it had been returned by the Governor But
bill shall be presented to the Governor within two
days next previous to the final adjournment OF the Gen.
era Assembly.
! SEC 15 The Governor shall transact all necessary
business with the officers of government, and may re-
qure information in writing from the officers OF the adj
mnistrave department, upon any subject relating to
the duties of their respective Offices
SEC 16. He shall take that the laws be faithfully
executed.
SEC IL. He shall have the power to grant reprieves,
communications and pardons after convictions for all Of
fences except and Of impeachment subject
to such regulations may be provided by law Upon
conviction for treason he shall have power TO suspend
the execution of the sentence until the shall be
ported to the General Assembly, at its next meeting
when the General Assembly shall either grant pardon,
the sentence, direct the execution oil the SEN
tence, grant further reprieve He shall have power
to remit hines and orieues under snch regulations as
may he prescribed by law and shall report the Gen.
era Assembly meeting, each case oil repreve
communication pardon granted and also the names Of
all persons in whose favor remission oil lines and iorei-
shall have been made and the several amounts
mtted: Prorided however, that the General Assembly
may by law constitute a council to be composed of off,
| G. rs of State, without whose advice and consent, the
Governor shall not have power to grant pardons any
case, except such may, by law, be left to his sole
power.
SEC. IS. When, during recess of the General As
sembly, vacancy shall happen in any Office the appoint
ment which is vested in the General Assembly; or
when at any tme vacancy shall have occurred IN any
other State Office in the Office of Judge OF any Court
the Governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment,
which shall EXPIRE when successor shall have been
elected and qualified