New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-05


preceding his election; nor shall any
person be eligible to either Office who
has not attained the age of twenty-five
years.
ART. 60. The governor shall enter on
the discharge of his duties on the
- next ensuing his election, and
shall continue in Office until the Mon
day next succeeding the day that his
successor shall be declared duly elect
ed, and shall have taken the oath or
affirmation required by the constitu-
ton.
ART. 81. No member of congress, or
any person holding office under the
United States government, shall be
eligible to the Office of governor or
lieutenant governor.
ART. 90, In case of impeachment of
the governor, his removal from office,
death, refusal or inability to qualify,
resignation or absence from the
state, the powers and duties of the
Office shall devolve upon the lieuten-
ant-governor for the residue of the
term, or until the governor, absent or
impeached, shall return or be ac-
quilted. The Legislature may pro-
vide by law for the case of re-
moval, impeachment, death, resig-
nation, disability, Or refusal to qualify,
of both the governor and the lieuten-
ant-governor declaring what officer
shall act as governor, and such officer
shall act accordingly until the dis
ability be removed, or for the remain
der of the term.
ART. 63. The lieutenant governor or
officer discharging the duties Of gov
ernor shall during his administration
receive the same compensation to
which the governor would have been
entitled had he continued in office.
The lieutenant governor shall,
by virtue Of his office, be presi-
dent of the senate, but shall have
only castinS vote therein. When
ever he shall administer the gov
eminent, or shall be unable to attend as
president of the senate, the senators
shall elect one of their own members
as president of the senate for the time
being.
ART. GA. The governor shall receive
a salary of eight thousand dollars per
annum, payable quarterly, on his own
warrant.
ART. 65. The lieutenant governor
shall receive q salary of three thou
sand dollars per annum, payable quar-
terly, upon Mis- own warrant.
ART. &C. The governor shall have
power to grant reprieves for all often
SEES against the state, and, except in
cases of impeachment, shall, with the
consent of the senate, have power to
grant pardons, remit fines and forfeit
ures after conviction. In cases of
treason he may grant reprieves until
the end of the next session of the gem
eral assembly, in which the power of
pardoning shall be vested.
ART. 81. Fe shall be commander-in-
chief of the militia of this state, ex-
cept when they shall be called into the
service of tile United States.
ART. GO. He shall nominate, and, by
and with the advice and consent of the
senate, appoint all officers whose Off
ces are established by the oonstitu-
lion, and whose appointments are not
herein otherwise provided for; Pro-
vided, however, that the legislature
shall have right to prescribe the mode
Of appointment to all other offices es-
.ablished by law.
ART. SO. The governor shall have
power to fill vacancies that may hap
pen during the recess of the senate,
BY granting commissions which shall
expire at the end of the next session
thereof, unless otherwise provided for
IN this constitution; but no person
who has been nominated for Office and
rejected by the senate shall be ap-
pointed to the same office during the
recess of the senate.
ART. 20. He may require informa-
zion, in writing from the officers in the
executive department upon any subject
relating to the duties of their re-
spective offices.
ART. II. He shall, from time to
time, give To the general assembly in
respecting the situation of
the state, md recommend to their
consideration such measures as he
may deem eKpedient.
ART. ~. He may, on extraordinary
occasions, convene the general assem-
bly, at the seat of government, or at
different place if that should have be-
come dangerous from an enemy or
from epidemic; and, in case of disa-
yreement between the two houses as to |
the time Of adjournment, he may adj
ourn them to such time as he may
think proper, not exceeding four
months; provided it be not to a period |
beyond the next constitutional meeting
IF the same.
ART. 70. He shall take care that
the laws be faithfully executed.
ART. 74- Every bill which shall
have passed both houses shall be pre-
sented to the governor; if he approve,
he shall sign it, if he do not, he shall
return it with his objections to the
house in which it originated, which !
shall enter the objections at large upon
its journal, and proceed to reconsider
It; if, after such reconsideration two
thirds of oil the members elected to
that house shall agree to pass the bill
It shall be sent with the objections to
the other l|ouse, by which it shall be
likewise reconsidered, and if approved
by two-thitds of the members elected
to that house it shall be a law; but in
such cases the vote of both houses
shall be determined by yeas and nays,
and the ma mes Of members voting for
Or against the bill shall be entered on