Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-10-10
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

SECTION /. The executive power shall be
vested in a governor who shall hold his Office two
years; n lieutenant-governor shall be elected at
the same time and for the same term.
SEC. 2. No person shall be eligible to the office
of governor or acknowledgement except
a citizen of the United States, and a
qualified elector of the state, who shall
have attained the age of thirty years
and who shall have resided two years next
preceding the election within the state or terri
tory, nor shall he be eligible to any other office
during the tenn for which he shall have been
elected.
SIC. 3. The governor and lieutenant governor
shall be elected 10y the qualified electors of the
state, at the time and places of choosing MEM
bers of the legislature. The persons respectively
having the highest number of votes for governor
and lieutenant-goyernoI shall be elect d; bat if
two or more shall have an equal and highest
number OF votes for governor or Heutenant-gov-
erROr. the two houses OF the legislature at its
next regular session shall forthwith, by joint
ballot. choose one of such persons for said office.
The returns of the election for governor and
acknowledgements shall be made in such man
ner "a shall be prescribed by law.
SEC.4 The governor shall be commandment
chief OF the military and naval forces of the
state, except when they shall be called into the
service of the United States, and may call out
the same TO execute laws, suppress instruction,
and repel invasion. lie shall have power to con-
ven the Legislature On extraordinary occasions.
He shall al the commencement of each session.
communicate to the legislature by message, in
formation or the condition OF the state, and shall
such measures as he shall deem ex-
pedient. he shall transact all necessary bust
ness with the officers OF the government, civil
and military. lie shall expedite all such meas
ures IS may be resolved upon by the legislature,
and shall take care that tn laws be faithfully
executed.
SIC. 5. The governor shall have power to re
nit fines and forfeitures. TO grant reprieves.
communications and pardons after conviction. for
al otfeDses except treason and cases OF I'M
p@echment; provided. that in all cas- : where the
SpIfGnrp of the Pour1 iS canltal nHnlSnmpnt. i'm
prisCnment for life, or for "A longer term than
two years, or a fine exceeding two hundred dol
lars. no pardon shall be granted, sentence ON
muted or tne RENTED, except upon the recon-
meBdaIon in writing OF a board of pardols con-
-Isting OF the presiding judge, secretary of state
nd Encouragement after full hearing in open
session; and such recommendation, with tho
reasons therefor, shall tee filed in the Office OF
the secretary of state; but the legislature may
by law, in all cases, regulate the manner in which
the remission or mes, pardons, communications
and Teprleves may b, applied for. Upon convic-
ton for treason he shall have power TO suspend
the execution OF sentence untilfhe case shall be
reported to the Legislature at its next regular
session. when the Legislature shall either pardon
or commute the sentence, direct the execution OF
the sentence or grant a further reprieve. He
shall communicate to the legislature at each
regular session, each case OF remission of fine,
reprieve, Communication or pardon, granted 10y
him IN the cases In which he is authorized TO act
without the recommendations of the Sd d board of
pardons, stating the lame of the convict. the
crime Of which he is convicted, the sentences and
its date, and the date of the remission, comma
tatiOn. pardon or reprieve, with his reasons FOR
granting the same.
SEC. q. Ia case of the death, impeachment. re-
signation, failure To qualify, absence from the
state. removal from office. or other disability of
the governor, the powers and duties Of the office
for the residue of the term. or until he shall be
acquitted. or the disability removed, shall de-
volve upon, the hCutenant-gove.nor.
SIC. /. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT shall toe presi-
dent Of the senate. but shall have only a casting
vote therein. If during a vacancy of the office
NJ CDrnn Ia Ia. fAn n On NJ shall tl I'M
peachod. displaced, resign or die. or from men
tai or physical disease or otherwise become IN
capable of performing the duties of his office,
the secretary OF sttte shall act As governor until
the vacancy shall be filled or the disability re-
moved.
SEC. :. When any office shall from any cause
become vacant, and no mode Ii provided 10y the
constitution oar law for filling such vacancy, the
governor shall have power to TIL such vacancy by
appointment.
SRC. 9. Every bill which shall hare passed the
legislature shall. before ii becomes a law. be pre-
scented To the governor. If he approve he shall
sign, but If not he shall return il. with his objec-
tiCn. To the house In which ii originated. which
shall enter the objection at large upon the jour
nal and proceed to reconsider il. If after such
reconsideration two-thirds of the members pres
ent shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent.
together with the objection. to the other house.
b. which ii shall likewise be reconsidered, and
II ii be approved To- two-thiTds of the members
present il SHALL become a law. but in all such
cases the vote of both houses shall be determined
by the yeas and nays, and the names OF the men,
DfiS NOllu- % iliu a&ldlilSl tIH OIL sNdii De Pm
tered upon the journal of each house respectively.
If any bill stall not be returned by the governor
within three days Sundays excepted after it
shall have been presented 10 him, the same shall
be a law, unless the Legislature shall 10y its adj
jOuTnment prevent its return; in which case it
shall be hled, with his objection, in the Office of
the secretary Of state within ten days after such
adjournment. or become a law.
SEC. In. The governor shall have power
to dlsapproye of any item or items of any bill
making appropriations of money embracing
distinct items. and part or parts of the bill
approved shall be law. and the item or items
disapproved shall be void, unless enacted in the
following manner: If the Legislature be in SEES
sion he snail transmit to the house in which the
bill originated a copy of the item or items
thereof disapproved. together with his objec-
tons thereto. and the items objected to shall re
separately reconsidered. and each item shall then
take the same course az Is prescribed for the pas
sage of bills over the executive veto.
SEC. III. Any governor of this state who asks,
receives or agrees TO receive any bribe upon any
understanding that his official opinion, judg-
ment or action shall be influenced thereby. or
who gives. or offers. or promises his official in
huence in cOnsid ration that any member of the
Legislature shall give his official vote cT influence