The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-07
PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO TIE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
 OF ARkANSAs

OF ARkANSAS
 inc, NoIice i IS hereby given that tho follow & nis Jolnt resolution. proposing an amend Ieht 10 the State Constitution. vas passed by the General Assembly at jts regular session of 1913, and fhat the 9hIue ,h WlI be submitted to the electors of tne state at the next general election, 70 70 De held Monday. September l4th. 1914 Tor adoption or rejection ' @'-'
 Proposed Amendment No. 16. o nat lhe following is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State Of Arkansas. and the same peng submitted to the electors of the aIale Tor approval or rejection at the next general election for Senators and representatives, H a majority of the electors voting at such election adont such amendment the samo shah become a part of the Constitution of the State oY Arkansas, to-wIt:
 Executive Department. That Section No IT of Article B ot the Constitution of the State of Arkan- SdS be amended SO as to read as follows.
 Hccoon l. To amend Section i of Ar ucle 6 of the Constitution of the State Of Arkansas to read as follows: The Ex- ecutlVe Department of this State shall consist of Governor. Lieutenant Coy ernor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State and Attorney General (d), all of whom shall keep their offices fin person at the seat of govern ment and hold their offices for the term Of two years and uuttl their successors NlN tlHCttu ana Qutllll ltd. Ana the lien- eral Assembly may provide by law for the establishment of the office of Com missioner Of State Lands
 Executive Power.
 Section ,. The Executive power shah De vested fin a Governor, who shall hold office for two years; a Lieutenant Gov ernor shall be chosen at the same time, and for the same term. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor elected next preceding election the time when this section shall take effect. shall hold office until and including the second Monday of September, and their successors shall be chosen at the general election in that Election Of Governor and Lleutenant- Governor.
 Section 3 The Governor and Lleuten- ant-Governor shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members Of the Assembly The persons respectively having the highest number of votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be elected, but in case two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for Governor or for Lieutenant Governor, the two Houses of the Legisla- ture at It's next annual session shall forthwith, by joint ballot, choose one of the said persons so having an equal and the highest number or vores for Governor and Lieutenant- Governor.
 When Lieutenant Governor to Act ss
 Governor.
 Section f. In case Of the impeachment
 
 office death. inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, resignation. or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Governor for the residue of the term, or until ths disability shall cease. But when the Governor shall, with the consent of the Legislature, be out of the state Tn time Of war, at the head Of a military force thereof he shall continue co, Nnander- in- chief of all the military fTce of the State
 Qualification and Duties Of Lieutenant
 Governor; Succession to the Gov
 ernorship.
 Section 6 The Lieutenant Governor shah possess the same qualifications of eligibility for the office as the Governor, He shall be president of the Senate, but shall have only a casting vote therein in eaaa Of a tie vote If iurlng va cancv ot inc office Of Governor the lAgu- tenant -Governor shah be lmpcached, diR- placed resign die. or become ircapahle of performlng tho duties 0f his ofhce, or he absent from the State, the lfesi- dens of the Senate shall nct aS Geternor untn the vacancy he filled or the disability shall ceasei and h h0