, 1889-10-02
ARTICLE No. ".
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT..
SECTION l. The executive power shall be vested in n
governor, who shall hold his office for the term of four (4)
years and until his successor is elected and duly qualified.
SEC. 2. No person shall be eligible to the office of gov
ernor unless he be a citizen of the United States and a quail
flied elector of the State, who has attained the age OF thirty
years, and who has 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
was been elected.
SEC. 8. The governor shall be elected by the qualified
electors of the State at the time and places of choosing men,
bers of the legislature. The person having the highest
number of votes for governor shall be declared elected, but
If two or more shall have an equal and highest number of
votes for governor, the two houses of the legislature at its
next regular session shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose
one of such persons tor said office. The returns OF the cleo
ton for governor shall be made in such manner as shall be
prescribed by law.
SEC. 4. The governor shall be commanderin-chie of
the military forces of the State, except when they are
called into the service of the United States, and may call
out the same to execute the laws, suppress instruction and
repel invasion. He shall have power to convene the legis-
lature on extraordinary occasions. He shall at the COM
meneement of each session communicate to the legislature
by message, information of the condition of the State, and
recommend such measures as he shall deem %expedient. He
shall transact all necessary business with the officers of the
government, civil and military. He shall expedite all such
measures rs may be resolved upon by the Legislature and
shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
SEC. 5. The governor shall have power to remit fines
and forfeitures, to grant reprievess, combinations and par
dons after conviction, for all offenses except treason and
cases of impeachment; but the legislature may by law reg
ulate.the manner IN which the remission OF fines, pardons,
combinations and reprieves may be applied for. Upon
conviction for treason he shall have power to suspend the
execution of sentence until the case is reported to the
legislature at its next regular session, when the legislature
shall either pardon or commute the sentence, direct the exc
cution of the sentence or grant further reprieve. He shall
communicate to the Legislature mt each regular session each
case of remission of fine, reprieve, communication or pardon
granted by him, stating the name of the convict, the crime
for which he was convicted, the sentence and its date, and the
date of the remission, Communication, pardon or reprieve with
his reason for granting the same.
SEC. 6. If the governor be impeached, displaced,
resign or die, or from mental or physical disease or other
wise become incapable of performing the duties of his office
or be absent from the State, the secretary of State shall
act as governor until the vacancy is filed or the disability
removed.
SEC. Z. When any office shall from any cause becomes
vacant, and no mode is provided by the constitution or law
for filling such vacancy, the governor shall have power to
fill the same by appointment.
SIC. 8. Every bill which has passed the legislature
shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the gov
ernor. If he approve, he shall sign; but if not, he shall
return it with his objections to the house in which it orig
mated, which shall enter the objections at large upon the
journaland proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsid-
Grafton, two-thirds of the members elected shall agree to pass
the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the
other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if
it be approved by two-thirds of the members elected, 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 respectively. If any
bill is not returned by the governor within three days
Sundays ~excepted) after its presentation to him, the
same shall be a law, unless the legislature by its ad-
journment, prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law
unless he shall file the same with his objections in the office
of the secretary of State within fifteen days after such ad-
journment.
SEC. 8. The governor shall have power To disapprove
of any item or items or part or parts of any bill making ap-
preparations of money or property embracing distinct items,
and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law,
and the item or items and part or parts disapproved shall
be void unless enacted in the following manner: If the leg
islature 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 disapproved, together with his objections
thereto, and the items or parts objected to shall be separ-
ately reconsidered, and each item or part shall then take the
same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the
executive veto.
SEC. 10. Any governor of this State who asks, receives
or agrees to receive any bride upon an understanding that
his official opinion, judgment or action shall be influenced
thereby, or who gives or offers, or promises his official infiu-
ence In consideration that any member OF the legislature
shall give his official vote or influence ON any particular side
of any question or matter upon which he is required to
act in his official capacity, or who menaces any member by
the threated use of his veto power, or who offers or prom
ises any member that he, the governor, will appoint any
particular person or persons to any office created or there
after to be created. in consideration that any member
shall give his official vote or influence on any matter pend
ing or thereafter to be introduced into either house of said
Legislature; or who threatens any member that he, the