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charter OF any town, city or village.
"a. Providing for the election OF mem
bers of the board of supervisors in town
ships, incorporated towns or cities.
IS. The protection of game or fish.
SEC. &c. In all other cases where q gen.
eral law can be made applicable, no special
law shall be enacted; nor shall the tegis-
lative Assembly indirectly enact such
special or local law by the partial repeal
Of a general law; but laws repeating local
or special acts may be passed.
ARTICLE III.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
SEC. Il. The executive power shall be
vested in a Governor. who shall reside at
h seat OF government and shall hold his
Office for the term Of two years and until
his successor Is elected n duly qualified.
SEC. u. A Lieutenant Governor. shall
be elected at the same time and for the
Of the death, impeachment, resigna-
ton, failure to qualify, absence from
the state, removal from Office, or
the 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 be removed, shall devOlve
upon the Lieutenant Governor.
SEC. 70. No person shall be eligible to the
Office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor
unless he be a citizen of the United States,
and a qualified elector Of the state, who
shall nave attained the age of thirty years,
and who shall have resided five years next
preceding the election within the state or
territory, nor shall he be eligible to any
other office during the term for which he
shall have been elected.
SEC. "a. The Governor and Lieutenant
Governor shall be elected by the qualified
electors of the state at the time and places
OF choosing members of the Legislative AS
number OF votes fori Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor respectively shall be de-
elared elected, but if two or more
humber Of Votes 's for Governor or
Lieutenant Governor, the two houses of
the Legislative Assembly at it's next reg
ular session shall forthwith, by joint ballot,
choose one of such persons for said Office.
The returns of the election for Governor
and Lieutenant Governor shall be made in
such manner as shall be prescribed by
law.
SEC. rs. The Governor shall be Com
mander-in-Ch 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 exc
cute the laws, suppress lnsurrection and
repel invasion. He shall have power to
convene the Legislative Assembly on
extraordinary occasions. He shall at the
commencement of each session commune
cate to the Legislative Assembly by mes
sage, information of the condition of the
state, and recommend such measures as
he shall deem expedient. He shall trans
act all necessary business with the officers
OF the government, civil and military. He
shall expedite all such measures as may
be resolved upon by the legislative AS
be faithfully executed.
SEC. rs. The Governor shall have power
to remit fines and fOrfeitures, to grant re-
| preives, communications and pardONs after
conviction, for all offences except treason
and cases Of impeachment; but che Legis-
regulate the manner in which the remission
Of fines, pardOns, combinations and re-
prives may be applied for. Upon convic-
ton for treason he shall have power to
suspend the execution of sentence until the
case shall be reported to the Legislative
Assembly at its next regular session, when
the Legislative Assembly shall either par
don or commute the sentence, direct the
execution Of the sentence or grant fur
Their reprieve. He shall communicate to
the Legislative Assembly at each regular
session each case OF remission of fine, re-
prieve, communication or pardon granted by
him, stating the name Of the convict, the
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sentence and its date, and the date Of the re-
mission, communication, pardon or reprieve,
with his reason for granting the same.
SEC. n. The Lieutenant Governor shall
be president of the senate, but shall
have no vote unless they be
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Lieutenant Governor shall be %impeached,
displaced, resign or die, or from mental or
physical disease, or otherwise become in-
capable of performing the duties OF his
Office, the Secretary of State shall act as
Governor until the vacancy shall be filed
or the disability removed.
cause become vacant, and no mode is prov
ided by the Constitution or law for filling
such vacancy, the Governor shall have
power to fill such vacancy by appointment.
SEC. 70. Every bill which shall have
passed the Legislative Assembly shall
before it becomes q law, be presented to
the Governor. II he approve, he shall
sign, but If not, he shall return it with his
objections, to the house in which it origi-
mated, which shall enter the objections at
large upon the journal and proceed to re-
consider it. Ii, after such reconsideration,
two-thirds of the members elect shall
agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, to-
house, by which it shall likewise be recon-
sidered, and il it be approved by two.thirds
of the members elect, it 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 members
voting for and against the bill shall be en-
tered upon the journal of each house re-
spectively. If any bill shall not be returned
by the Governor within three days (Sun.
days excepted) after it shall have been
presented to him, the same shall be a law,
unless the Legislative Assembly by its
adjournment, prevent its return, in
which case it shall be a law, un.
less he shall file the samewith his objections
in the Office Of the Secretary of State, within
fifteen days after such adjournment.
SEC. 80. The Governor shall have power
to disapprove Of any item or items, or par
or parts OF any bill making appropriations
Of money or property embracing distinct
items, and the part or parts Of the bill ap.
proved shall be the law, and the item OF
items, and part or parts d~isapprOved shall
be void, unless enacted in the following
manner: If the Legislative Assembly be
in session he shall transmit to the house in
which the bill originated a copy Of the
item or items, or part or parts thereof dis.
approved together with his objections
thereto, and tine items Or parts objected to
shall be separately reconsidered, and each
item or part shall then take the same
course as is prescribed for the passage OF