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

SECTION l. The Executive Department of
this Commonwealth shall consist of y 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 in 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
Honwealth, at the places where they shall
vote for Representatives. The returns of
every election for Governor shall be sealed
up and transmitted to 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 be 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 he 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
same provisions as the Governor he shall
be president of the Senate, but shall have no
vote unless they be equally divided.
Sec. s. No person shall he eligible to the
office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor
except citizen of the United States who
shall have attained the age of thirty years
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 or of this State
Sec. 6. No member of Congress or person
holding any Office under the United States
or tins 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 servics
of the United States.
Sec. 8. He shall nominate, and by and
with the advice and consent of two thirds of
all the members of the Senate, appoint 3
Secretary of the Commonwealth and an At
torney General during pleasure, Superin-
tendent OF Public instruction for four years.
and such other officers of the Commonwealth
he is 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 com
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-
Internal Affairs or Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, in a judicial office, or in any
other elective office which he is or may 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, proper person to ill said va
cancy.
But in any such case Of vacancy, in any
elective office, q person shall be chosen to
said Office at the next general election, un-
less the vacancy shall happen within three
! calendar 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 Executive nominations, the
Senate shall sit with open doors, and III con-
firming or rejecting the nominations of the
Governor, the vote shall be taken by yeas
| and nays, and shall be entered on the journal.
! Sec. 9. He shall have power to remit fines
and forfeitures, to grant reprieves, commu-
tations of sentence and pardons, except in
, cases of impeachment, hut 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
ton, with the reasons therefor at length,
shall be recorded and filed in the Office OF
the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
! Sec. 10. He may require information in
! writing from the officers Of the Executive
/ Department, upon arg subject relating to
! the duties of their respective offices.
Sec. II. He shall, from time to time, give
| to the General Assembly information of the
j state of the Commonwealth, and recommend
! to their consideration such measures as he
! may judge eNpedieut.
See. II. He may, on extraordinary occa-
! sions, convene the General Assembly, and
I in case of disagreement between the two
Ar--
| ment, adjourn them to such time as he shall
think proper. not exceeding four months.
/ He shall have power to convene the Senate
in extraordinary session, by proclamation
! for the transaction of executive business.
/ Sec. 13. In case of the death, conviction
on impeachment, failure to qualify, resigna-
! ton, or other disability of the Governor, the
| powers, duties, and emoluments of the office
| for the remainder of the term, until the
disability be removed, shall deyolve upon
! the Lieutenant Governor.
| Sec. IA. In case OF a vacancy in the office
of Lieutenant Governor, or when the Lieu
| tenant Governor shall be impeached by the
! House of Representatives, or shall be un
/ able tn exercise the duties of his Office, the
/ powers, duties, and emoluments thereof fol
! the remainder of the term, or until the disa
! bility be removed, shall devolve upon the
i President PRO TEMPORE of the Senate and
! the President pro tempore of the Senate
shall in like manner become Governor If
| of Governor his seat as Senator shall be-
come vacant whenever he shall become Gov
/ ernor, and shall be filed by election as any
other vacancy in the Senate.
/ Sec. Is. Every bill which shall have pass
! ed both houses shall be presented to the
i Governor if he approve, he shall sign it
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 theil
journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If
after such reconsideration, two-thirds Of al
the members elected to that house shall
agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent will
the objections to the other house, by which
! likewise, it shall be reconsidered, aud if ap
! proved by two-thirls of all the member
elected to that house, it shall be a law bu
in such cases the votes of both houses slIal
be determined by yeas and nays and tn
names of the members voting for an,
against the bill shall be entered on the jour
mails of each ho'lse respectively. IF any b:l
4 shall not be returned nv the Governor wi th