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ing thereto, or returning home, except it be for .treason, felony, or breach of the peace: Nor (hall any member be liable to answer for any thing spoken in debate, in either Hbufe, in any Court, or place eifewhere. Serf* XV. The members of the Senate and Houle of Representatives (hall take the following oath or * affirmation: “ I A. B. do solemnly swear, (or'affirm as the* case may be,) that 1 have not obtained my elc&ion by bribery, or other unlawful means ; and that I will give my vote on all queffions that may come before me, as a Senator, or Keprefentative, in such manner, as, in my judgment, will belt promote the good ot this Rate; and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the larne, and, to the utmoß of my power, observe, support, and defend the Con- Ritution thereof.” Sc6l. XVI. The General Assembly shall have power to make all laws and ordinances which they ihall deem necessary, and proper for the good of the Rate, which (hall not be repugnant to this conßi tutiom . - Sc6f. X VII*. They (hall have power to alter the boundaries of the prelent counties, and to hy off new ones j as well out of the counties already laid off, as out of the other territory belonging to the Rate. When a new county, or counties, Ihall be laid off out of any of the present county or coun ties, such new county or counties Riall have their reprefentaticn apportioned out of the number of the Representatives of the county or counties out of which it or they (hall be laid out; and when any new county Ihall be laid off in the vacant ter ritory belonging to the Rate, luch county Riall have a number ot Representatives not exceeding three, to be regulated and determined by the General Af lcmbly.—And no money (ball be drawn out of the Treasury, or from the public lunds of this Rate, except by appropriations made by law. Se6f, XVjIJ. No Clergyman, of ary denomina tion, ihall be a member oi the Genesal Affcmbly. ARTICLE 11. Se6l. I. The Executive Power fhallbe veßedin a Governor, who Riall hold his office during the term of twci years; and Ihall beeleded in the fol lowing manner: Se£l 11. she House of Representatives dial], on the second day of their making a .House, in the RrR, and in every second year'thereafter, vote by ballot for three persons; and shall make a lift, con taining the names of the perfonVvoted for, and of the number of votes for each person ; which lift the Speaker Riall sign in the presence of die Houle, and deliver it in person to the Senate : And the Senate Riall,-on the fame day, proceed by ballot to ele«R one of the three persons having the htgheß number of votes ; and the per(on having a majori ty of the votes of the Senators'piefent, ihall be the Governor; Sc6i . 111. No perfon-ftiail be eligible to the office of Governor, who shall not have been a citizen of the United States twelve year s, and an inhabitant cf this Rate fix years ; and who hath not attained to the age of thirty years ; and who does not pof- ' fefs five hundred acres of land, in his own right, within this Rate, and other species of property, to the amount of one thousand pounds, Rerling, Se6i. IV. In case of the death, refigoatioto, r or d.fahility, of the Governor, the Preftdent of the Senate (hall excrcife the Executive powers of Go- vernment, until such disability be removed; or Until the next meeting of the General Assembly. Sea, V. The Governor ffiall, at Rated times, re ceive, for his iervices, a compensation, which (hall neither be increased nor dimiffied duringthe period for which he shall be eleded; neither ffiall he re ceive, within that period, any other emolument from the United States, or any of them, or from any foreign power.—Before he enters on the exe ' cutlon his office, he' ffiall take the following oath, or affirmation • " I do solemnly swear, (or affirm as the case may be,), thatl will faithfully execute the office of Governor of the Mate of Georgia; and will, to the beftof my abilities, preferVe, proted and defend the said date, and cause justice to be executed in mer cy therein j according to the Constitution and laws of the fame.” Sefl. VI. He {hall be Commander in Chief in and over the Hate of Georgia j and of the militia thereof. Sefl. VII. He ffiall have power to grant reprieves for offences againit the slate, except in cases of impeachment j and to grant pardons in all cases a;ter convidion, except for treason or murder; in which cases he may reipite the execution and make a report thereof to the next General Assembly, by whom a paidnn may be granted.- tit SI. V 111. He shad rffiie writs of eledion to fill up all vacancies that happen in the Senate or House or Reprelentatiy.es j and ffiall have power to con vene the General Assembly on extraordinary occa fiohs; and ffiall give diem, from time to time, infor mation of the hate of the republic ; and recom mend to their confidesations luch measures as he may deem neceffny and expedient. Sect. IX In cate or disagreement between the Senate and Home or Reprelentatives, with refped. to the time to which the General Assembly ffiall adjourn, he may adjourn them to such time as he may think proper.- 1 Sect. X, He ffiall have the revision of all bills pass d by both* Houses before the lame ffiall be come laws ; but two-thirds of both Houses may pass a law norwithftanding his dissent; and if any bill ffiould not be returned by the Governor wi la in five days after it hath 1 been prefen ed to him the fame ffiall be a law, unless the General As sembly by their adjournment ffiall prevent its re * turn; Sect. XI. The Great $ cal" of the Rate ffiall be : deposited in the office of the Secretary, and it ffiall not be affixed to any instrument of writing, with out it be by order of the Governor or the General Assembly; and the General Assembly may direct the Great Seal to be altered. R T I C LE Hf. Seft. I. A Superior Court ffiall be held in each county twice in every year, in which ffiall be tried and brought to final decision, all caules civil and cri minal ; except such as may be fubjedt to a 1 Federal Court, and luch asmay by law be referred to in ferior iarifdidtions. Sett. 11. The General Assembly ffiall point out the mode of corredffng errors and appeals; which ffiall extend as far as to empower the Judges to di-f re€l a new trial by jury within the county where the adtion originated, which ffiall be final. SeH. If I.- Courts-miefchant ffiail be held as here- fubjeft to inch regulations as the General * f >•