The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-01

in the State whose bnsip ess may require
it. Ithesalaty Of the inferior judge to be
paid from the county treasury. a, e.
The expense of this judicial system
| to the State in the form OF salaries will
be,four hundred dollars less thanthe
present system. Where these inferior
courts are established, they will have
jurisdiction over misdemeanors and
sui,s-at law, but no chancery .jurisdic-
ktion. Two contiguous counties like
Jefferson and Berkeley,if the people 30
desire it, can have such inferior tribu..
nails in their respective counties, and
each ratably contribute from the county
treasury, the salary Of such inferior
Judge. -.ls.s-gy
Article seventh provides for the cleo
ton of a Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, and other. executive officers
OF the State; the term Of office OF the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
four years, and ineligible for the sue
ceeding four years; the salary Of the
Governor to be three thousand dollars q
year; the Lieutenant-Goyernor to be
President of the Senate, and to receive
no compensation except as SUCH
and not required to reside at the
seat OF government; the Governor
to be clothed with the veto power.
SEQ. s. Every bill passed by the
Legislature shall, before it becomes a
law, be presented to the Governor. If
he approve he shall sign it, and there
upon it shall become law; but if he
do not approve, he shall return It, with
his objections, 10 the house in which 1t
shall have originated, which house shall
enter the objections at large upon lie
journal, and proceed to reconsider the
bill. In bill making appropriations
for district purposes, he may refuse his
assent to one or more Of the items on
SAID bill and approve the residue. If
then two-thirds of the members elected
agree to pass the same'or such part or
parts thereof as is objected to, 1t shall
be sent, together with the objections. to
the other house, by which it shall like
wise be reconsidered, and if approved
by two-thirds OF the members elected to
that house it shall become law, not
withstanding the objections of the Gov
ernor. But in all such cases the vote
OF each mouse shall be determined by
yeas and nays, to be entered on the
journal. Any bill which shall not be
returned by the Governor within ten
days Sundays excepted) after it shall
have been presented to him, shall be-
come a law in like manner as if he had
signed it, unless the Legislature shall,
by their adjournmentprevent its return,
in which case it shall be filed with his
objections, in the office Of the Secretary
of State, within ten days after such
adjournment, or become law.
The following section has no doubt
been suggested by the Lincoln county
case, reported West Virginia Reports,
when the Legislature violated the Con-
stitution in the creation of that county,
but the Court of Appeals refused to in
terfere because it was an excuse OF
political power by that body.
Sec. y, wherein the Legislature
is prohibited by this Constitution from
doing any particular act, and the same
shall be done in violation Of such prop.
osition, it shall be the duty of the Courts
upon proper case presented to declare
such act null and void
In our next we will present an out
line of the principal points touching
county organizations, taxation, finance,
railroads, free schools. homesteads and
other miscellaneous matters embraced
in the plan of tie proposed Constitu-