Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-03-23

4. The person having the grcatcst,number
of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice
President, if such number be Il majority Of
the whole number Of electors appon,al; and
If no person have majority, then, from 'bc
two highest numbers on the list, the senate
shall choose the Nce-President quorum
for the purpose shall consist of two,tlirds ot
the whole number of Senators, and MAORI
ity of the whole number shall be necessary
20 choice.
5. Butuo person constitutionally ineligible
to the Office Of President shall be eligible to
that of NicC.P President of the Confederate
States.
6. The Congress may determine the time
Of choosing the electors, and the day ON
which they shall give their votes which day
shall be the same throughout the Confederate
States.
l. No person except natural horn citizen
of the Confederate States, or a citizen thereof
ut the time of the adoption of the Constitu,
ton, ora citizen thereof born in the United
States prior to the goth of December, 1869,
shall be eligible to the office of Presidents
neither shall any person be eligible to that
Office who shall not have attained to the age
of thirty-Ivc years, and been fourteen years
resident within the limits of the Confederate
States, as thcy may exist at the time of his
election.
s. In case Of the removal of the President
from Office, or of his death, resignation, or
inability to discharge the powers and duties
of the said office, the same shall devolve on
the Vice President; and the Congress may,
by law, provide for the case of removal,
detth, resignation, or inability both of the
President and Vice President, declaring what
officer shall then act as Presidents and such
officer shall act accordingly until the disabi-
- be removed, or a President shall he elected
9. The President shall, at stated times, re-
cclvc for his services a compensation which
shall neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he shall have been
elected aud he shall not receive within that
period any other cmoumcnt from the Con.
icdcratc states, or any of them.
10. Before he enters on the execution of
his Office he shall take the following oath or
affirmation
81 do solennly swear (cr aflirm) that I
will faithfully execute the Office of President
of the Confederate States, and will, to the
best of my ability, preserve, protect, and de-
fcnd the Constitution thereof"
SECTION q. The President shall be
commandcr-in- chief of the army and navy of
the Confederate States and of the militia of
the several States, when called into the actual
service Of the Confederate States he may re-
quirc the opinion, in writing, of the principal
officer in each of the Executive Departments,
upon any subject relating to the dGtties of
their respective Offices; and he shall have
power to grant repricves and pardons Tor Of
fences against tie Confederate States, except
in eases OF impeachment.
2. He shall have power, by and with the
advice aud consent of the Senate, TO make
treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators
present concur; and he Shall nominate and,
by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other pub
tic ministers ana consuls, Judges of the Su-
preme Court, and all other officers of the Con
fcderate States, whose appointments are not
Lcrcin otherwise provided for, and which
shall be established by law; but the Congress
may, by law, vest the appointment of such In
!crior officers, as they think proper, in the
President alone in the courts Of law or in the
beads of Departments.
B. The principal officer in each OF the Exc
cutivc Departments, and all persons connected
with tho diplomatic service, may he removed
from Office at the pleasure of tho President
MI other civil officers of the Excentivc De
partmcnt may be removed ut any time By the
l'rrs,dent on other appointing power, when
their services arc unnecessary, or for dishon-
esty, incapacity, imcifciency, misconduct, or
neglect of duty, and when so removed, the
removal shall be reported to the Senate, to-
9cther with the reasons therefor
4. The President shll have power to fll
all vacancies that may happen during the re-
cess of the Senate by granting commissions,
which shall expire at the end of their next
session; but no person rejected by the Senate
shall be re-appointed to tlcsa Office during
their ensuing recess.
SEcrIoN 3.--1. The President shall, from
tiWe to time, give to the Congress informa-
tiou of the state of the Oonfederacy, and re.
commend to their consideration such measures
as he shall judge necessary, and expcdient
he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene
both Houses, or either of them; aud in case OF
disagreement bctweenithem, with respect to-
the time of adjournment he may adjourn
them to such time as he shall think proper
nc shall receive ambassadors aud other public
ministers; he shall take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, and shall commission all
the officers of the Confederate States.
SEcTIoN Al. The President; Vice Pres
ident, and all civil, officers of the Gonfederate
States, shall be removed from Office on im-,
peaehment for, aud conviction of, treason
bribery, or other high crimes and misde,
mcanors.
ARTICLE III.
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