New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-05
TITLE III.


EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
| ART So. The Supreme Executive power of the
| State shall be vested in Chief Magistrate, VINO
shall be styled the Governor of the State OF Louisiana
He shall hold his office during the term OF Tour
years. and, together with the Lieutenant Governor
chosen for the same term be elected as follows
The qualified electors for Representatives shall
vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, al
the time and place of voting for Representatives,;
the returns Of every election shall be sealed up and
transmitted BY the proper returning officer to the
Secretary of State, who shall deliver them to tho
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 if two
more persons shall be equal and highest in the
number of poiled 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 if two or more persons shall be equal and highest
IN the number OF votes polled Tor Lie tenant Gov
.rnor 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 twenty eight 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 next succeeding the day
| that his successor shall be declared duly elected,
and shall have taken the oath affirmation required
by this Constitution.
ART. 3s. 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 or 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 the
State, the powers and duties oil the office shall de
| vove upon the Lieutenant Governor for the resi-
due of the term or until the Governor, absent OF
impeached, shall return or be acquitted The Legis
lature may provide by law for the case 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, unit
the disability be removed or for the residue OF the
term.
Ger discharging the duties Of Governor, SHALL during
his administration receive the same compensation
to which the Governor would have been entitled
had he continued in office.
ART. AZ. The Lieutenant Governor shall, by vir-
tue of his office, be President OF the Senate, but
he shall administer the Government, or shall be un-
able to attend as President OF the Senate, the
Senators shall elect one OF their members as
President of the Senate for the time being.
ART 40. While he acis as President of the Senate
the Lieutenant Governor shall receive for his ser,
vices the same compensation which shall for the
same period be allowed to the Speaker OF the
House of Representatives, and no more
AET. "A The Governor shall have power to gran
repreves for all offences against the State, and
at,f SL1ll tIa
sent of the Senate have power to grant pardons anc
remit fines aud ioreitures, after conviction. lr
cases of treason he may grant repreves, until the
end of the ne ut session of the General Assembly, in
which the power of pardoning shall be vested,
ART. as, The Governor shall at stated times re-
ceiVe for his services compensation, which shall
neither be increased diminished during the
term for which he shall have been elected.
ART. 46. He shall be Commlnder-in-Chief OF the
Army and Navy of this State, aud of the Militia
thereof, except when they shall be called into the
service of the United States.
ART. d.. He shall nominate and, by and with the
advice and consent oil the Senate, appoint all off
GERS whose offices established by this Coustitu
ton, and whose appointment is not therein other
| wise provided for Provided. however, that the LIE
gslature shall have right to prescribe the mode
| appointment to all other offices established by law
ART. as The Governor shall have power to fl
| vacancies that may happen during the recess o
| the Senate, by granting commissions which shall
the emu oi the next session, unless other
wise provided for in this CONSTITUTIONS but no person
who has been nominated Tor office, and rejected
by the Senate, shall be appointed the same otlc.
during the Of the Senate.
ART 40. He may require Information in writing
from the officers the Executive Department, upoI
any subject relating to the duties of their respective
| offices.
ART so. He shall from time TO time, give to TN
, General Assembly information respecting the stu
alton OF the State, and recommend to their consid
Grafton such measures MS he may deem exp.dient
| ART 81. H- may on extraordinary occasions con
? rsue the General ASSEMBLY at the of Govern
; meut, or at different place If that should hav
: beoams dangerous from an enemy or from epidemic
and in case Of disagreement between the two house
"to the time OF adjou nment, he may adjourn the.
, 70 such time as he may think proper. NOS exceed
q ny four months
Art. 90 HIS shall take care that the laws he iaitl
fully executed
ART % Every bill which shall have passed bo,
y houses shall be presented to the Governor; if h
J. approve, he shall sign ii, Il not he shall return
with bis objections to the house in which it origin,
Il cd which shall enter the objections at large upon il
jonrna, and proceed to reconsider it, il after sue
reconsideration two.thirds Of all the members ele
ed To that house shall agree to pass the hill!
shall be sent, with the objections, to the other Hous
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