Milford chronicle., 1896-12-25
consttutIOnaI COnventIon.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE on TIE
GOVERNOR AND OTHER EXECUTIVE
OFFICERS.

The Committee on the Governor |
and other Executive Officers recon-
mend the following amendments to
the Constitution
Strike out all of Section 8 of Ar
ticIe III and substitute in lieu thereof
the following
"SEcTION 9. He shall have the
mower to remit fines and forfeitures,
10 grant reprieves, combinations OF
sentence and pardons except in cases
of impeachment; but no pardon shall
be granted. nor sentence committed,
except upon the recommendation in
writing of the Chancellor, Speaker
of the Senate Attorney General and
Secretary Of State, or any three of
them after full hearing,and such rec
ommendation, with the reasons there
fore at length, shall be filed and re-
corded in the office of the Secretary
of State, who shall forthwith notify
the Governor thereof"
Strike out the word second" in
the last line of Section 3 Of Article
III and insert in lieu thereof the
word "thrd."
Insert next after the ending Sec
tion Is of Article III the following
"SEcrIoN IA. Every bill which
shall have passed both Houses OF the
GnneraI Assembly shall before it be-
comes law, be presented to the
! Governor; if he approve he shall
sign il. but if he shall not approve he
shall return it with his objections to
the House in which it shall have
originated, which House shall enter
the objections at large on the Journal
and proceed to reconsider it. If, af-
ter such reconsideration twO-thirds
of all the members elected to that
House shall agree to pass the bill,
it shall be sent together with the
objections to the other House by
which it shall likewise be reconsid-
cred, and if approved by twO-thirds
of all the members elected to that
House. It shall become a law. But
in all such cases the votes Of both
Houses shall be determined by yeas
and days and the names of the MEM
bers voting for and against the bill
shall be entered on the Journal of
each House respectively. Ifany bill
shall not be returned by the Gov
ernor within ten days Sundays ex-
eepted) after it shall have been pre-
sented to him, the same shall be a
law. in like manner as if he had
signed it, unless the General Assem-
bly, shall, by their adjournment, pre-
vent its return, in which case it shall
not become a law without the ap.
proval of the Governor. No bill
shall become a law after the final
adjournment of the General Assem-
bly, unless approved by the Governor
within thirty days after such adj
iournment. The Governor shall have
power to disapprove of any item or
items of any bill, making apprOpria-
lions Of money, embracing distinct
items, and the part or parts Of the
] Dill ADDEONCu budAl NC JuS law anu
the item or items of appropriation
disapproved shall be void unless re-
! pas sed according to the rules and
limitations prescribed for the pas
sage of other bills over the Execu-
tive vote. Every order, resolutions,
or vote to which the concurrence of
both Houses of the general Assem-
bly, may be necessary Except on a
question of adjournment) shall be-
/ presented to the Governor; and be-
fore the same shall take effect shall
be approved by him or being disap-
proved by him shall he repassed by
twO-thirds of all the members of each
House of the General Assembly ac-
cording to the rules and limitations
prescribed in the case of a bill"
Signed, EDWARD D. HEARNE,
WILLIAM A. CANNON,
E. W. COOPER,
A. L. JOHNSON,
w. G. SPRUANoE.