The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-05
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THE EXECUTIVE.

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this Commonwealth shall consist of a Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
the Commonwealth, Attorney General Au-
ditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of
Internal Affairs, and Superintendent of
Public instruction.
Sec. 2 The supreme executive power shall
be vested i'll the Governor, who shall take
care that the laws be faithfully executed :;
he shall be chosen on the day of the general
election by the qualified electors of the Com
monwealth, at the places where they shall
vote for Representatives. The returns of
every election for Governor shall he sealed
up and transmitted t. the seat of govern
ment directed to the President of the Senate
who shall open and publish them in the pres
ence of the members of both houses of the
General Assembly. The person having the
highest number of votes shall be Governor
but if two or more be equal and highest in
votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor
by the joint vote of the members of both
houses. Contested elections shall be deter
mined by committee, to he selected from
both houses of the General Assembly, and
formed and regulated in such manner as
shall be directed by law.
Sec. 3. The Governor shall hold his office
during four years from the third Tuesday of
January next ensuing his election, and shall
not be eligible to the Office for the next sue
ceeding term.
Sec 4. a Lieutenant Governor shall be
chosen at the same time, in the same man
ner, for the same term, and subject to the
be president of the Senate, but shall have no
vote unless they be equally divided.
Sec. s. No person shall bel eligible to the
office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor
except a citizen of the United States, who
shall have attained the age of thirty wears
and have been seven years next preceding
his election an inhabitant of the State un-
less he shall have been absent on the public
business of the United States of this State.
Sec. g. No member of Congress or person
nv of lar fl,ea I'll
or this State shall exercise the office of Gov
ernor or Lieutenant Governor.
Sec. Z. The Governor shall be commander
in-chief of the army and navy of the Com
mOnwealth, and of the militia, except when
they shall be called into the actual service
of the United States.
Sec. s. He shall nominate, and by and
with the advice and consent of two-thirds of
all tho members of the Senate, appoint
Secretary of the Commonwealth and an At
torney General during pleasure, a Superin-
tendent of Public instruction for four years
and such other Off GERS of the Commonwealth
as he il or may be authorized by the consti-
tuition or by law to appoint he shall have
power TO fill all vacancies that may happen
in offices to which he may appoint during
the recess of the Senate by granting conn
missions which shall expire at the end of
their next session he shall have power to
fill any vacancy that may happen during
the recess of the Senate, in the office of Au-
ditor General, State Treasurer, Secretary of
Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, in judicial Office, or in any
other elective office which he is OF NAV be
authorized to fill:
If the vacancy shall happen during the
session of the Senate, the Governor shall
nominate TO the Senate, before their final
adjournment, a proper person to f said va
Cancy.
But in any such case Of vacancy, in any
elective Office, n person shall be chosen to
said office at the next general election, I'M
less the vacancy shall happen within three
caleCdar months Immediately preceding
such election, in which case the election for
said Office shall be held at the second sue
ceeding general election;
In acting on Executive nominations, the
Senate shall sit with open doors, and in con-
tirming or rejecting the nominations of the
Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas
and nays, aud shall be entered on the journal
Sec. 9. He shall have power to remit fines
and forfeltures, to grant reprleveS, commu-
tatiOns of sentence and pardong, except in
cases OF Impeachment, but no pardon shall
he granted, nor sentence commuted, except
upon the recommendation i'll writing of the
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Com
monwealth, Attorney General and Secretary
of Internal Affairs, or any three of them,
after full hearing, upon due public notice
and in open session, and such recommends
tion, with the reasons therefor at length,
shall be recorded and filed in the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Sec. TO- He may require Information in
writing from the officers of the Executive
Department, npOn any subject relating to
the duties of their respective offices.
Sec. IL. He shall, from time to time, give
TO the General A ssemhly information of the
state of the Commonwealth, and recommend
to their consideration such measures as he
may Judge cXpedient
Sec. II. He may, OH extraordinary occa-
| sions, convene the General Assembly, and
| in case of disagreement between the two
| houses, with respect to the time of adjourn
! ment adjourn them TO such time as he shall
| think proper. not exceeding four months.
| He shall have power tn convene the Senate
! i'll extraordinary session, by proclamation,
! for the transaction of executive business.
Sec. 13. In case of the death, conviction
on Impeachment, failure to equality, resigna-
! ton, OF other disability of the Governor, the
power duties, and eInoluments of the office
| for the remainder of the term, OR until the
disability be removed, shall devolve upon
| the Lieutenant Governor.
Sec, IA In case OF a vacancy ia the office
of Lieutenant Governor, or when the Lieu
tenant Governor suail De impeached by the
House of Representatives, or shall be un-
able to exercise the duties of his Office the
powers, duties, and emolulnents thereof for
the remainder of the term, or until the disa-
blity be removed, shall dcvolve upon the
President PRO TEMPORE of the Senate and
the President pro temDOre of the Senate
shall in like manner becOme Governor if a
vacancy or disability shall occur in the office
OF Governor his seat rs Senator shall be-
come vacant whenever lac shall become Gov
ernor, and shall he filed 10y election as any
other vacancy in the Senate.
Sec. 10. Every bill which shall have pass
ed both houses shall be presented TO the
Governor if he approve, he shall sign 1t );
but if he shall not approve, he shall return
it with his objections to the house in which
it shall have originated, which house shall
enter the objections at large upon their
journal, and proceed to reconsider it. Ii,
after such reconsideration, two-thirds of all
the members elected to that house shall
agree to pass the hill, it shall, be sent with
the objections to the other house, hy which,
likewise, it shall be reconsidered, and if APP
proved by two=thirds of all the members
elected to that house, it shall be law but
in such cases the votes of both houses shall
be determined by yeas and nays and the
names of the members voting for and
against the bill shall be entered on the jour
nails of each house respectively. If any bill
shall not be returned by the Governor with
i'll ten days after it shall have been pre-