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sentatives shall have intervened. They shall in all cases, except, treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respactive houses, and in going to, and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place.

§ 12. No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during such time. No person concerned in any army or navy contract, no member of congress, nor any person holding any office under this state, or the United States, except the attorney general, officers usually appointed by the courts of justice respectively, attorneys at law, and officers in the militia, holding no disqualifying office, shall, during his continuance in congress or in office, be a senator or representa-. tive.

§ 13. When vacancies happen in either house, writs of election shall be issued by the speakers respectively, or, in cases of necessity, in such other manner as shall be provided for by law; and the persons thereupon chosen shall hold their seats as long as those in whose stead they are elected might have done, if such vacancies had not happened.

§ 14. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives; but the senate may propose alterations, as on other bills; and no bill, from the operation of which, when passed into a law, revenue may incidentely arise, shall be accounted a bill for raising revenue; nor shall any matter or clause whatever, not immediately relating to and necessary for raising revenue, be in any manner blended with or annexed to a bill for raising revenue.

§ 15. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published annually.

ARTICLE 3.

§ 1. The supreme executive power of the state shall be vested in a governor.

§ 2. The governor shall be chosen on the first Tuesday of October, by the citizens of the state having a right to yote for representatives, in the counties where they respecti

vely reside, at the places where they shall vote for representa tives.

The returns of every election for governor shall be sealed up and immediately delivered by the returning officers of the several counties to the speaker of the senate, or, in case of his death, to the speaker of the house of representatives, who shall keep the same until a speaker of the senate shall be appointed, to whom they shall be immediately delivered after his appointment, who shall open and publish the same in the presence of the members of both houses of the legislature. Duplicates of the said returns shall also be immediately lodged with the prothonotary of each county. The person having the highest number of votes shall be governor: but, if two or more shall be equal in the highest number of votes, the members of the two houses shall, by joint ballot, choose one of them to be governor: and if, upon such ballot, two or more of them shall still be equal and highest in votes, the speaker of the senate shall have an additional casting vote.

Contested elections of a governor shall be determined by a joint committee, consisting of one-third of all the members of each branch of the legislature, to be selected by ballot of the houses respectively: every person of the committee shall take an oath or affirmation, that, in determining the said election, he will faithfully discharge the trust reposed in him; and the committee shall always sit with open doors.

§ 3. The governor shall hold his office during three years from the third Tuesday of January next ensuing his election; and shall not be capable of holding it longer then three in any term of six years.

§ 4. He shall be at least thirty-six years of age, and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the United States twelve years next before the first meeting of the legislature after his election, and the last six of that term an inhabitant of this state, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States, or of this state.

§ 5. No member of congress, nor person holding any office under the United States or this state, shall exercise the office of governor.

$6. The governor shall, at stated times, receive for his services an adequate salary, to be fixed by law, which shall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected.

§ 7. He shall be commander in chief of the army and navy

of this state, and of the militia; except when they shall be called into the service of the United States.

§ 8. He shall appoint all officers whose offices are established by this constitution, or shall be established by law, and whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for; but no person shall be appointed to an office within a county who shall not have a right to vote for representatives, and have been an inhabitant therein one year next before his appointment, nor hold the office longer then he continues to reside in the county. No member of congress, nor any person, holding or exercising any office under the United States, shall, at the same time, hold or exercise the office of judge, treasurer, attorney general, secretary, clark of the supreme court, prothonotary, register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration, recorder, sheriff, or any office under this state, with a salary by law annexed to it, or any other office which the legislature shall declare incompatible with offices or appointments under the United States. No person shall hold more than one of the following offices at the same time, to wit: treasurer, attorney general, clerk of the supreme court, prothonotary, register, sheriff. All commissions shall be in the name of the state, shall be sealed with the great seal, and be signed and tested by the governor.

§ 9. He shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures; and to grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment.

$10. He may require information, in writing, from the officers in the executive department, upon any subject relat ing to the duties of their respective offices.

11. He shall, from time to time, give to the general assembly information of affairs concerning the state; and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient.

§12. He may, on extrordinary occasions, convene the general assembly; and, in case of disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding three months

§ 13. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

§ 14. On the death or resignation of the governor, or his removal from office on impeachment, or for inability, the speaker of the senate, at that time, shall exercise the office

of governor until a new governor shall be duly qualified; and on the death or resignation of the speaker of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives at that time, shall exercise the office, until it be regularly vested in a new governor. If the trial of a contested election shall continue longer than the third Tuesday of January next ensuing the election of a governor, the governor of the last year, or the speaker of the senate or of the house of representatives, who may then be in the exercise of the executive authority, shall continue therein until a determination of such contested election. The governor shall not be removed from his office for inability, but with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each branch of the legislature.

§ 15. A secretary shall be appointed and commissioned during the governor's continuance in office, if he shall so long behave himself well. He shall keep a fair register of all the official acts and proceedings of the governor; and shall, when required by either branch of the legislature, lay the same, and all papers, minutes, and vouchers relative thereto, before them; and shall perform such other duties as shall be enjoined him by law. He shall have a compensation for his services, to be fixed by law.

ARTICLE 4.

§ 1. All elections of governor, senators, representatives, shall be by ballot; and, in such elections, and every white freeman, of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the state two years next before the election, and within that time paid a state or county tax, which shall have been ass. essed at least six months before the election, shail enjoy the right of an elector; and the sons of persons so qualified shall, between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years, be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid taxes.

§ 2. Electors shall, in all cases, except treason, felony, or 'breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning from them.

ARTICLE 5.

§ 1. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching; but two-thirds of all the members must concur in an impeachment. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate; and, when sitting for that purpose, the mate shall be upon oath or affirmation to do justice accord

ing to the evidence. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of all the senators.

§ 2. The governor, and all other civil officers under this state, shall be liable to impeachment for treason, bribery, or any high crime or misdemeanor in office. Judgment in such cases shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honour, trust, or profit under this state; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law.

§ 3. Treason against this state, shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to the enemies of the government, given them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

ARTICLE 6.

§ 1. The judicial power of this state shall be vested in a court of chancery, a supreme court, and courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, in a court of common pleas, and in an orphans' court, register's court, and a court of quarter sessions of the peace for each county, in justices of the peace, and in such other courts as the legislature, two-thirds of all the members of each branch concurring, may, from time to time, establish.

$2 The chancellor and the judges of the supreme court, and of the court of common pleas, shall hold their offices during good behaviour: but, for any reasonable cause which shall not be a sufficient ground for an impeachment, the governor may, in his discretion, remove any of them, on the --address of two-thirds of all the members of each branch of the legislature. They shall, at stated times, receive for their services adequate salaries, to be fixed by law, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office, and shall be payable quarterly to their respective orders upon the treasurer, out of any moneys in the treasury; but they shall hold no other office of profit, nor receive any fees or perquisites, except such fees as shall be fixed by law for business to be done out of court.

§3. The judges of the supreme court shall be not fewer than three, nor more than four, one of whom shall be the chief justice. There shall be a judge residing in each county. The jurisdiction of this court shall extend over the state The judges shall, by virtue of their offices, be justices

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