The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-08-07
Executive Department.

ty may be released of all taxes due thereon at
the date OF its reversion to them
Executive Department.
ART. 3D. The Executive Department shall
consist OF Governor, Lieutenant Governor
Auditor, Treasurer and Secretary of State.
ART 50. The supreme executive power of
the state shall be vested in chief magistrate
who shall be styled the Governor of Louisiana
He shall hold his Office during four years and
together with the Lieutenant Governor.
chosen for the same term, shall be elected as
follows: The qualified electors for Representa-
tives shall vote for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor at the time and place of voting for
Representatives.
The returns of every election for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor shall be sealed ND
separately from the returns of election of other
officers aud transmitted by the proper officer of
every parish to the Secretary of State, who
shall deliver them, unopened, to the General
Assembly then next to be holden. The men,
bers OF the General Assembly shall meet on the
first Thursday after the day on which they as
semble, in the House of Representatives to
examine and count the votes. The person hav-
ing the greatest number Of votes for Governor
shall be duly elected; but in case two or more
persons shall be equal and highest in the num-
Der of votes polled for Governor, one of them
shall be immediately chosen Governor by the
joint vote of the members of the General AS
sembly. The person having the greatest num-
Der of votes for Lieutenant Governor shall be
Lieutenant Governor; but if two or more per-
sons shall be equal and highest in number of
votes polled for Lieutenant Governor one of
them shall be Immediately chosen Lieutenant
Governor by the joint vote of the members of
the General Assembly.
ART. 60. No person shall be eligible to the
Office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor who
shall not have attained the age of thirty years,
beer ten years citizen of the United States
and resident of the State for the same space of
time next proceeding his election, or who shall
be a member of Congress or shall hold office
in six months immediately preceding the elee
ton for such office.
ART. 81. The Governor shall enter on the
discharge of his duties the first Monday next
ensuing the announcement by the general AS
sembly of the result of the election for Govern
or, and shall continue in Office until the Mon
day next succeeding the day that his successor
shall have been declared duly elected and shall
have taken the oath or affirmation required
by this constitution.
ART. 81. In case of the impeachment of the
Governor, his removal from office, death, re-
fusua1 or inability to qualify, disability, resig-
nation or absence from the State, the powers
and duties OF the Office shall dcvolve upon the
Lieut. Governor, for the residue Of the term,
or until the Governor, absent or impeached,
shall return or he acquitted or the disability re-
moved. In the event of the removal, impe ach.
ment, death, resignation, disability or refusal
to qualify, of both the Governor or Lieutenan mt
Governor, the President pro TEN, of the Senate
shall act as Governor until the disability be
removed or for the residue of the term.
ART. 63. The Lieutenant Governor OF officer
discharging the duties of Governor shall, dur
ing his administration, receive the same com
pensation to which the Governor would have
been entitled had he continued in Office.
ART. 6l. The Lieutenant Governor shall, by
virtue of his office, be President of the Senate
| but shall have only casting vote therein
The Senate shall elect one of its members as
President pro tempore of the Senate.
ART. 65 The Lieutenant Governor shall
receive for his services a salary which shall
be double that of a member of the General As
sembly, and no more.
ART. &C. The Governor shall have power to
grant reprieves for all offenses against the
State, and, except in cases Of impeachment OF
treason, shall, upon the recommendation IN
writing of the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney
General and prcsididg judge of the court before
which conviction was had, or Of any two OF
them; have power to grant pardons, commute
sentences and remit fines and fOrfeitures aftel
conviction. In cases of treason he may gran
reprieves until the end of the next session o
the General Assembly, in which body the pow
er of pardoning is vested.
ART. 67. The Governor shall receive sala
nv of $1,000 per annum, pay able monthly on hi
own warrant.
ART. 6S. He shall nominate, and by ant
| with the advice aud consent of the Senate
onno;nt all officers whose offices are establish
ed by this constitution, and whose appoint
ments or elections are not herein otherwis
| proyided for provided, however, that the Gen
eral Assembly shall have the right to preserib
the mode of appointment or election 10 al
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