where the courts have jurisdiction to grant the powers or the privileges or the relief asked for.

Sec. 26. No local or special law shall be passed, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the locality where the matter or the thing to be affected may be situated, which notice shall be, at least, thirty days prior to the introduction into the General Assembly of such bill, and in the manner to be provided by law. The evidence of such notice having been published shall be exhibited in the General Assembly before such act shall be passed.

Sec. 27. No extra compensation shall be made to any officer, agent, employer or contractor after the service shall have been rendered or the contract made; nor shall any money be appropriated or paid on any claim the subject matter of which shall not have been provided for by pre-existing laws; unless such compensation or claim be allowed by bill passed by two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the General Assembly.

Sec. 28. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.

Sec. 29. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of specific appropriation made by law, the purpose of which shall be distinctly stated in the bill, and the maximum amount which may be drawn shall be specified in dollars and cents; and no appropriation shall be for a longer period than two years.

Sec. 30. The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the State; all other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.

Sec. 31. No State tax shall be allowed, or appropriation of money made, except to raise means for the payment of the just debts of the State, for defraying the necessary expenses of government, to sustain common schools, to repel invasion and suppress insurrection, except by a majority of two-thirds of both houses of the General Assembly.

Sec. 32. No act of the General Assembly shall limit the amount to be recovered for injuries resulting in death, or for

4. The returns of every election for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, and Attorney-General, shall be sealed up and transmitted by the returning officers to the seat of government, directed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall, during the first week of the session to which said returns shall be made, open and publish them in the presence of both houses of the General Assembly in joint convention. The persons having the highest number of votes for either of said offices shall be declared duly elected; but, if two or more shall have an equal and the highest number of votes for the same office, the General Assembly, by joint vote, without delay, shall choose one of said persons for said office. Contested elections for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer, and Attorney-General, shall be determined. by both houses of the General Assembly, in such manner as may be prescribed by law.

5. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Attorney-General, shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years from the time of their installation in office, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.

6. The Governor shall be at least thirty years of age when elected, and shall have been a citizen of the United States ten years, and a resident citizen of this State at least seven years next before the day of his election.

7. The Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, and Attorney-General, shall reside at the seat of gov ernment of this State during the time they continue in office, except in cases of epidemics; and they shall receive compensation for their services, which shall be fixed by law, and which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which they shall have been elected.

8. The Governor shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

9. The Governor may require information in writing under oath, from the officers of the executive department on any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and may at any time require information in writing, under oath, from all the officers and managers of State institutions, upon any subject relating to their condition, management and expenses of their respective offices and institutions; and any such officer or mana

ger who makes a false report shall be guilty of perjury and punished accordingly.

10. The Governor may, by proclamation, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly at the seat of government, or at a different place if, since their last adjournment, that shall have become dangerous from an enemy, or from infectious or contagious diseases; and he shall state specifically in such proclamation each matter concerning which the action of that body is deemed necessary.

11. The Governor shall, from time to time give to the General Assembly information of the state of the government, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he may deen expedient; and at the commencement of each session of th General Assembly, and at the close of his term of office, giv information, by written message, of the condition of the Stat and he shall account to the General Assembly, as may be pr scribed by law, for all moneys received and paid out by him fro any funds subject to his order, with the vouchers therefor; a he shall, at the commencement of each regular session, prese to the General Assembly estimates of the amount of mon required to be raised by taxation for all purposes.

12. The Governor shall have power to remit fines and f feitures, under such rules and regulations as may be prescril by law, and after conviction, to grant reprieves, commutat of sentence, and pardons (except in cases of treason impeachment); but pardons in cases of murder, arson, burgl rape, assault with attempt to commit rape, perjury, forg bribery and larceny shall not relieve from civil and political ability unless specifically expressed in the pardon. Upon co tion of treason, the Governor may suspend the execution of sentence, and report the same to the General Assembly at the regular session, when the General Assembly shall either pa commute the sentence, direct its execution, or grant fu reprieve. He shall communicate to the General Assemb every regular session, each case of reprieve, commutati pardon granted, with his reasons therefor; stating the and crime of the convict, the sentence, its date and the d reprieve, commutation or pardon.

13. Every bill which shall have passed both houses General Assembly shall be presented to the Governor aprove, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it w

objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon the journals, and the house to which such bill shall be returned shall proceed to reconsider it; if, after such reconsideration a majority of the whole number elected to that house shall vote for the passage of such bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; if approved by a majority of the whole number elected to that house, it shall become a law; but, in such cases, the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for or against the bill shall be entered upon the journals of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within five days, Sundays excepted, after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law. And every order, vote or resolution to which the concurrence of both houses may be necessary (except questions of adjournment and of bringing on elections. for the two houses, and of amending this Constitution) shall be presented to the Governor and before the same shall take effect be approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be repassed by both houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

14. The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money, embracing distinct items, and the part, or parts, of the bill approved, shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriation disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to the rules and limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills over the executive veto; and he shall, in writing state specifically the item or items he disapproves.

15. In case of the impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death, refusal to qualify, resignation, absence from the State, or other disability, the President of the Senate shall exercise all the power and authority appertaining to the office of Governor, until the time appointed for the election of Gover nor shall arrive, or until the Governor who is absent, or impeached, shall return or be acquitted, or other disability be removed; and if during such vacancy in the office of Governor, the President of the Senate shall be impeached, removed from

office, refuse to qualify, die, resign, be absent from the State or be under any other disability, the Speaker of the House o Representatives shall, in like manner, administer the govern ment. If the Governor shall be absent from the State ove twenty days, the Secretary of State shall notify the President the Senate, who shall enter upon the duties of Governor; and the Governor and President of the Senate shall both be abse from the State over twenty days, the Secretary of State sha notify the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and such case he shall enter upon the discharge of the duties Governor, until the return of the Governor or President of Senate.

16. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the Ho of Representatives shall, during the time they respectiv administer the government, receive the same compensat which the Governor would have received if he had b employed in the duties of his office: Provided, That if the C eral Assembly shall be in session during such absence, t or either of them, shall receive no compensation as mem of the General Assembly while acting as Governor.

17. No person shall, at one and the same time, hold the of Governor of this State and any other office, civil or mili either under this State, the United States, or any other or government, except as otherwise provided in this stitution.

18. The Governor shall be commander-in-chief of the n and volunteer forces of this State, except when they sh called into the service of the United States, and he ma out the same to execute the laws, suppress insurrection repel invasion, but he need not command in person, directed to do so by a resolution of the General Assembl when acting in the service of the United States, he shall a his staff, and the General Assembly shall fix his rank.

19. No person shall be eligible to the office of Secre State, State Treasurer, State Auditor, or Attorney-C unless he shall have been a citizen of the United States seven years, and shall have resided in this State at le years next preceding his election, and shall be at least five years old when elected.

20. There shall be a great seal of the State, which used officially by the Governor; and the seal now in