The record-union., 1892-10-19
Amendment Number Three.
[Senate Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTICLE v.

ARTICLE V.
Section 5. A Lieutenant-Governor shall
be elected at the same time and place and in
the same manner as the Governor, and his term
OF Office and his qualifications OF eligibility
shall also be the same. He shall be President
OF the Senate, but shall have only a casting
vote therein. He shall also, when the Senate
is not in session, visit all the State institu-
llons, prisons, reformatory schools, asylums
anu oIher institutions, supported in whole or
III part by the State, and make careful exaInin-
auons OF the manner in which the appropria-
tlons for the support OF such institutions and
for permanent improvements have been ex-
pended, and report the result of bis eXamin-
atlons 10 the Governor, to the Legislature, and
TO any other officer, or board of officers that
lhe legislature may direct; provided, that in
case the Office OF Lieutenant-Governorb becom-
ing vacant, or in the case of the functions of
governor deYolVing upon him, the President
pro tenn. OF the Senate, or his successor, shall
perform The duties and receive the emolu-
ments of said Lieutenant Governor, during
the term of such vacancy, or the time he Is
performing such functions Of Governor. The
Legislature may by law prescribe the time
and manner that such examinations shall be
made. If, during vacancy in the Office of
Governor, the lieutenant-Governor shall be
lmpeached, displaced, resign, die, or become iE-
capable of performing the duties of his Office
or be absent from the State, the President pro
tenn. of the Senate shall act as Governor until
the vacancy be fllled or disability shall cease.
The Lieutenant-Ciov vernon shall be DISQUALIFIED
from holding any other Office. except as spec
tally provided in this Constitution, during the
Section 19. Governor. Lieutenant-Cove
nor, Secretary OF State, Controller, Treasurer
Attorney y-General, Surveyor-Generals shall, at
stated tiInes during their continuance in Office
receive for their services a com pensation
which shall not be increased nor diminished
during the term, which compensation is
hereby fixed for the following officers for the
two terms next ensuing the adoption of this
Constitution, as follows: Governor, six thou
sand So, ,OOO)dollars per annum; the Attorney
General, three thousand ($3, ,000) dollars per
annum; the Secretary of State, Controller
Treasurer, three thousand (S3.0OO) dollars
each per annum; Surveyor-Ceneral, three
thousand $4,000 dollars per annuin, and
for the following officer for the fractional term
and for the two terms next ensuing the fourth
day OF November, A. d. eighteen hundred and
ntnety-two, as follows: Lieutenant-G overnor
four thousand $4,000 dollars per annum
and travelling expenses when he may be en-
ployed in visiting and examining State insti-
tuuonS. such compensation to be in full for
all services by them. respectively, rendered,
IN any official capacity or employment what
soever, during their respective terms of Office;
provided, however, that tine Legislature after
the expiration of their terms hereinbefore
mentioned, may, by law, diminish the COM
pensation OF any or all such officers but in no
case shall have the power TO increase the same
above the sums hereby fixed by this Constitu-
lion. The Legislature may, in its discretion,
abolish the Office Of Surveyor General, and
none OF the officers hereinbe1ore named shall
receive for their own use any fees or perqui-
sites for the performance OF any official duty.