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the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary
of State.
ART. 81. In the year which regular election for
Senator of the United States is to take place, the
members of the General Assembly shall meet in
the Hall of the House of Representatives, the
Monday following the meeting Of the Legislature,
and proceed to the said election.
TITLE Ill
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
| ART. IS. The Supreme Executive power of the
| State shall be vested in Chief Magistrate, who
shall be styled the Governor of the State of Louisiana
He shall hold his Office during the term OF four
years, and, together with the Lieutenant Governor
| chosen for the term, be elected as follows:
The qualified electors for Representatives shall
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, at
the time and place of voting for Representatives;
the OF every election shall be sealed up and
transmitted BY the proper returning officer to the
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, on the
second day of the session of the General Assem-
bly,, then next to be holden. The members of the
General Assembly shall meet in the House of Re
personalities. to examine and count the votes.
The person having the greatest number OF votes for
Governor, shall be declared duly elected but il two
or more persons shall be equal and highest in the
| number of votes poed for Governor, one of them
shall Immediately be chosen Governor by joint vote
| Of the members Of the General Assembly The
| person having the greatest number OF votes for
Lieutenant Governor, shall be Lieutenant Governor
but ftwo more persons shall be equal and highest
in the number Of votes poiled for Lie tenant Gov
| ernor one of them shall be Immediately chosen
Lieutenant Governor by joint vote OF the members OF
the General Assembly.
| ART So No person shall be eligible to the office
| of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, who shall not
| have attained the age of twentyegh years and been
a citizen and resident within the State for the
| space of four years next preceding his election.
| ART 81. The Governor shall enter on the discharge
| OF his duties on the fourth Monday OF January
| next ensuing his election, and shall continue in
office until the Monday mex, succeeding the day
that his successor shall be declared duly elected,
and shall have taken the oath affirmation required
| by this Constitution.
ART. IS, The Governor shall be ineligible for the
succeeding four years after the expiration of the
time for which he shall have been elected.
ART 80. No member of Congress person hold.
ing any office under the United States shall be eligible
to the office OF Governor or Lieutenant Governor
ART. 40 In case of the impeachment of the Gov
ernor, his removal from office, death, refusal or in
ability to qualify, resignation or absence from tht
State, the powers and duties OF the office shall de
volve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due of the term, or until the Governor, absent o
| impcached, shall return or be acquitted. The Legis
| lature may provide by law for the Of removal
impeachment, death, resignation, disability, reu
sal to qualify, of both the Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, declaring what officer shall act Gov
ernor; and such officer shall act accordingly, until
the disability be removed, or for the residue of the
| term.
ART. Al The Lieutenant Governor, or other Off
Ger dischafging the duties OF Governor, shall, during
his administration, receive the compensation
to which the Governor would have been entitled,
had he continued in office.
ART 40. The Lieutenant Governor shall, by vr-
tue OF his office, be President of the Senate, but
shall have only casting vote therein. Whenever
he shall administer the Governments or shall be I'M
able TO attend President OF the Senate, the
, Senators shall elect Of their own members as
President of the Senate for the time being,
, ART. 43. While he acs as President Of the Senate
the Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his ser,
vices the same compensation which shall Tor the
r same period be allowed to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and no more.
ART. A. The Governor shall have power to gran
, reprieves for all offences against the State, and
except in of impeachment, shall, with the con
sent of the Senate, have power to grant pardons AM
remit fines and forfetures, after conviction. Ii
cases Of treason he may grant reprieves, until tn
end OF the next session of the General Assembly, ii
which the power OF pafdoning shall be vested.
ART. As. The Governor shall at stated times re
ceive for his services compensation, which shall
neither be increased nor diminished during thu
, term for which he shall have been elected
| ART. DC. He shall be Commander-in-C Chief of tn,
Army and Navy OF this State and of the Mlliti;
thereof, except when they shall be called into tn,
service of the United States.
: ART AZ. He shall nominate and, by and with tn,
: advice and consent OF the Senate, appoint all off
>,
e tion and whose appointment is not therein other
e wise provided Tor Provided, however, that the lie
o glslature shall have right prescribe the mode
a appointment to all other offices established by law
y ART. As The Governor shall have power to fl
5, vacancies that may happen during the recess o
1t the Senate, by granting commissions which shall
expire at the end OF the session. unless other
wise provided for in this Constitutions but no perso,
. who has been nominated for office and reiecte,
by the Senate shall be appointed to the same ofiic
| during the recess of the Senate
II ART. AZ. He may require information in writp.
from the officers IN the Executive Department. upo
any subject relating othe duties OF their respectiv
offices.
> ART. SO. He shall, from time to time, give to tn
, General Assembly information respecting the stu
ation of the State, and recommend 10 their consil
Grafton such measures as he may deem expedien
ART. 81. He may on extraordinary occasions cor
J vena the General Assembly at the seat of Cover
. n,eat, at a different place il tEat sloud hav
- become dangerous from an enemy or from epidemic
and in of disagreement between the two house
. as to the time of adjoutnmen he may adjourn ther
!, to such time as he may think proper not exceed
:, ing four months.
ART 80. He shall take care that the laws be faitI
i fully executed
ART %. Every bill which shall have passed bot
houses snail be presented to the Governor; if h
; approve ne snail sign it, if not, he shall retSra
win ms oDlectisns to the house in which it orisina
ca wnicn sha'l enter the objections at large upon it
journal, and proceed TO reconsider il, if Alter snc
Reconsideration two-thirds Of all the members cleo
ted to that house shall agree 10 pass the b;ll ;
shall be sent, with the objections to the other Hon Sc
! by which it shall likewise be reconsidered. and
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