The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-07-04
ARTICLE III.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION 1. There shall be Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of the State who shall be chosen by the qualified
voters for the members Of the House of Commons such
times and places members of the General Assembly
elected. $3.50. r. -. - ~
Sec g. No person shall be eligible Governor Lieu
tenant Governor unless he shall have been citizen of the
United States for twenty years shall have attained the
Of thirty years shall have been resident of the State for
five years next before the day of election and shall have
therein freehold in land eneents of the value two
thousand dollars.
Sec The Governor shall hold his office for the term of
two years from the time fixed for his installation and until
another shall be elected and quafed but he shall not be
eligible than four years any of six years. unless
the Office shall have been cast him Lieutenant
Governor Speaker of of the Houses Of the General
Assembly.
SEC 4 The returns of every election for Governor and
Governor shall be sealed up and transmitted to
the seat Of government by the returning officers directed
the Speaker Of the House of Commons who shall open and
publish them in the presence of majority of the members
of both Houses the General Assembly The person hax
ing the highest number of votes for Governor shall be Gov
enor; and the person having the number Of votes
for Lieutenant Governor shall be Lieutenant Governor but
two persons shall be equal and highest in number
of for either Office of them shall be chosen ELL
the office by joint of both Houses of the General
Assembly. ~@,a
Sec s. Contested elections for Governor Lieutenant
Governor shall be determined by joint vote of both Houses
of the General Assembly, in such shall be pre-
scrbed by law.
Sec The Governor elect shall the duties of the
Office on the first day of January next after his election,
having previously taken the oahs Of Office presence of the
members of both branches of the General Assembly,
before any Justice of the Supreme Court who the
Governor elect should be prevented from attendance before
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cause, is authorized to administer the same.
Sec 7. The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the
qualifications for Office required Of the Governors and
shall hold his Office for the like term. .
Sec s. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor each,
shall take OATH that the best of his knowledge and
belief he is eligible under the Constitution and laws Of
the State to the Office to which he has been elected
Sec g. The Governor shall be Chief of the
Militia and in the recess of the General Assembly shall
have power by and with the advice of the Council Of State
| to embody the Militia for the public safety.
Sec TO- The Governor shall have power to draw for and
apply such of money shall be voted by the General
Assembly for the contingencies Of government and be
accountable them for the he shall have the
Of granting pardon and repreves except when the
cuton shall be carried by the General Assembly,
unless the law shall otherwise direct which latter
he may the recess grant reprieve until the next sitting
of the General Assembly, and may exercise all the Other
executive powers of government limited and restrained
by this Constitution mentioned and according the laws
of the State and shall have power by and with the advise
of the Council of State to the General Assembly
in extra session. any time when in his opinion the exgen
cies of the State may require it.
Sec H. In case Of the impeachment Of the Governor
his removal from Office death, inability to discharge thu
duties of the Office resignation absence from the State thu
powers and duties of the Office shall devove upon the Lieu
Governor for the residue of the term until tn
| disability shall cease
Sec IL Whenever the Lieutenant Governor SHALL for lk
causes become incompetent to discharge the powers
duties of the Office Of Governor they shall devove tn
Speaker Of the Senae and in of his DEATH ncom
potency for like causes they shall devolve the Speake
of the House of Commons and for such time there sha
be no Speakers fact the persons last acting
deemed Speakers for the purpose aforesaid.
Sec 49, In offs vacancy the office of Governor tn