The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-20

| less ne snail nave been absent on the public
business of the United States or of this
State.
Sec 6. No member of Congress or per
son holding any office under the United
States or this State shall exercise the Office
of Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
Sec Z. The Governor shall be commander
in-chief of the army and navy of this Com
monwealth, and of the militia, except wher
they shall be called into the actual service
of the United States.
Sec 8. lie shall nominate, and by and
with the advice and consent of two-thirds
of all the m embers Of the Senate, appoint
q Secretary of the Commonwealth and an
Attorney General during pleasure, a Super.
intendant of Public Instruction for four
years. and such other off GERS of the Com.
monwealth as he is or may be authorized
by the constitution or by law to appoint; he
shall have power to fill all vacancies thai
may happen in Offices to which he may APP
point during the recess of the Senate by
granting commissions 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 Auditor General, State Treasurer,
Secretary of Internal Affairs or Superin.
tendant of Public instruction, in 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 os the Senate, the Governor shall
nominate to the Senate, before their final
adjournment, proper person to fill said
vacancy.
But in any such case of vacancy, in an
elective Office, a 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 Cor
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
confirming or rejecting the nominations of
the Governor, the vote shall be taken by
yeas and nays, and shall be enter ed on the
journal.
Sec 9. He shall have power to remit fines
and forieitures, to grant reprieves commu-
tatons of sentence and pardons, except in
cases of impeachment, but no pardon shall
| be granted, nor sen.ense committed, except
upon the recommendation in writing of the
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the Com.
monwealth, Attorney General and Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs, or any three of
them, after full hearing, upon due public
notice and in open session, and such recon-
mendation, with the reasons therefor at
length, shall be recorded and filed in the
Office of the Secretary of the Common
wealth.
See 10. He may require information in
writing from the officers of the Executive
Department. upon any subject relating to
the duties of their respective offices.
Sec | |. He shall, from time to time, give
to the General Assembly information of the
state of the Commonwealth, and recon.
mend to their consideration such measures
as he may judge expedient.
sec II. tie may, on extraordinary oeca.
sions, convene the General Assembly, and
IN case OF disagreement between the two
houses. with respect to the time Of adjourn
inent. adjourn them to such timeas he shall
think proper, not exceeding four months.
lie 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, resig-
nation, or other disability of the Governor,
the powers, duties and emoluments of the
office for the remainder of the term, or un :
Ill the disability be removed, shall devolve
upon the Lieutenant Governor.
Sec IA. In case ofa vacancy in the office
of Lieutenant Governor or when the Lieu
tenant Governor shall he impeached by the
House Of Repre5e 5entatiyes, or shall be un.
able to exercise the dsties of his office, the
powers, duties, aud emoluments thereof FOR
the remainder Of the term. or until the dis
ability be removed, shall devolve upon the
President PRO TEMPoRE Of the Senate, and
the President pro tempore of the Senate
shall in like manner become Governor if a
vacancy or disability shall occur IN the
Office of Governor; his seat as Senator shall
become vacant whenever he shall become
Governor, and shall be filled by election as
any other vacancy in the Senate
Sec IS. Every bill which shall have
passed both houses shall be presented to
the Governor; if he approve, he shall sign
it,; but if lie shall not approve, he shall re-
turn 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 bill, it shall be sent
with the objections to the other house, by
which, likewise, it shall he reconaidered,
and if approved by two-thrds 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 journals of each house respectively.
If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within ten days after it shall
have been presented to him, the same shall
be a law in like manner as if he had
signed it, unless the General Assembly, by
their adjournment, prevent its return, in
which case it shall be law unless he
shall file the same, with his objections, iu
the office of the Secretary of the Common.
wealth, and give notice thereof by public
proclamation within thirty days after such
adjournment.
Sec l6. The Governor shall have power
to disapproVe of any item or items of any
bill making appropriations of money, em,
bracing distinct items, and the part or
parts of the bill approved shall be the law,
and the item or items of appropriation dis
approved shall be void, unless repassed ac-
cOrding to the rules and limitations pre-.
scribel for the passage of other bills over
the executive veto.
Sec II. The Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court shall preside upon the trial of
any contested election of Governor or
Lieutenant Governor, and shall decide
questions regarding the admissbility of
evidence, aud shall, upon request of the
committee, pronounce his opinion upon
other questions of law involved in the
trial. The Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor shall exercise the duties of their re-
spective Offices until their successors shall
be duly qualified.