The record-union., 1892-10-24
Amendment Number Three.
SENATE Constitutional Amendment No. Ill
ARTICLE V.

ARTICLE V.
Section IS. 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 q casting
vote therein. He shall also, when the Senate
is not in session, visit all the State institu-
tions, prisons, reformatory schools asylums,
and other institutions, supported in whole or
in part by the State, and make careful examin-
atlOnS OF the manner in which The appropria-
tons for the support OF such institutions. and
| Tor permanent improvements, have been ex-
pended, and report the result of his examin-
at1onS to the Governor, to the Legislature, and
to any other officer, or board of officers, that
! the Legislature may direct; provided, that in
case the office of Lieutenant-Governor becom-
ing vacant, in the case of the functions of
Governor deVolVing upon him, the President
pro tenn. Of the Senate, or his successor, shall
perform the duties and receive the emou-
ments of said MISUNDERSTANDING, during
the term of such vacancy, or the time he is
performing such functions Of Governor. The
Legislature may by law prescribe the time
ana manner that such examinations shall be
made. II, during a vacancy in the office of
Governor, the Lieutenant-GoVernor Shall be
1mpeached, displaced, resign, die or become in
capable OF performing the duties of his Office
or be absent from the state, the President pre-
tenn. Of the Senate shall act as Governor until
the vacancy be filled or disability shall cease
| The Lieutenant-GovernOr snail be disqualified
from holding any other Office, except as spec
term for which he shall have been elected.
Section -. Governor. Leutenant-Gover-
nor, Secretary OF State, Controller Treasurer
AUJorney-CIenefal, SurVeyOr-General, SHALL at
stated times during their continuance in Office
receive for their services a COMPENSATION
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, ,00OldOllaTs perannum; the Attorney
General, three thousand $4,000 dollars per
annum; the Secretary of State, Controller
Treasurer, three thousand $4,000 dollars
| each per annum; SurVeyor-General, three
| thousand $4,000 dollars per annum, 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
ninety-tWo, as follows: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
four thousand tS4.OG0) dollars per annum
ana travelling expenses when he may be enl-
ployed in visiting and examining State insti-
tutiOns. such compensation to be in full for
all services by them, respectively, rendered,
III any othcIiu capacity or employment what
SoeVer, during their respective terms of Office
provided, however, that the Legislature, after
the expiration OF their terms hercinbefOre
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-
uon. The Legislature may, in its discretion,
Abolish the ONCE of Surveyor General, and
none OF the officers hereinbetore named shall
receive for their own use any fees or perqui-
sites for the performance OF any official duty.