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any member be liable to answer for any thing fpcken in debate in either House, in any Court or place elsewhere. Sect . XV. The members of the Senate and House of Representatives {hall take the following oath or affirmation: “ I A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm as the case may be) that I have not obtained my eledion by bribery or other unlawful means, and that I will give my vote on all questions that may come before me as a Senator or Representative in such manner, as in my judgment will best promote the good of this state, and that I will bear true faith and alle giance to the fame, and to the utmost of my power observe, support, and defend the Constitution thereof ” Sefl. XVI. The General Assembly {hall have power to make all laws and ordinances which they lhall deem necessary and proper for the good of the state, which {hall not be repugnant to this constitution. Sect . XVII. They {hall have power to alter the boundaries of the prelent counties, and to lay off new ones, as well out of the counties already laid off, as out of the other territory belonging to the state. When a new county or counties (hall be laid off out of any of the present county or counties, such new county or counties {hall have their repre sentation apportioned out of the number of the Representatives of the county or counties out of which it or they lhall be laid out; and when any new county lhall be laid off in the vacant territory belonging to the state, such county {hall have a number of Representatives not exceeding three, to be regulated and determined by the General Af iamKfy Sect. XVIII, No Clergyman of any denomina tion lhall be a member of the General Affernbly. ARTICLE 11. Sect. I. The Executive Power lhall be vested in a Governor, who {ball hold his office during the term of two years, and {hall be ele&ed in the fol lowing manner: Sect. 11. The House of foall on the lecond day of their making a Home, in the firft and in every second year thereafter vote by ballot for three persons, and lhall make a lift con taining the names of the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each person, which lift tbe Speaker {hall iign in the pretence o{ the House, and deliver it in person to the Senate : And the Se nate lhall on the fame day proceed by ballot to eledt one of the three persons having the higeft num ber of votes, and the person having a majority of the votes of the Senatois present {hall be the Go vernor. Sect. 111. No person {hall be eligible to the office of Governor who {hall not have been a citi zen of the United States twelve years, and an inha bitant of this state fix years, and who hath not at tained to the age of thirty years, and who does not poffels five hundred acres oi land in his own right within this state, and other species of property to the amount ot one thousand pounds sterling. Sed. IV. In case of the death, resignation, or disability of the Governor, the Piefident of the Senate {hall cxercife the Executive powers of Go vernment until such disability be removed, or un til tbe next meeting of the General Assembly. ScO. V. The Governor ihail at Rated times f receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the pe riod for which he shall be eledted; neither shall he receive within that peiiod any other emolu ment from the United States, or any of them, or from any foreign power. Before he enters on the execution of his office he fliall take the follow lowing oath or affirmation : \ “ Ido solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may be) that I will faithfully execute the office of Governor of the State of Georgia, and will to the best of my abilities prelerve, protect and defend the said state, and cause justice to be executed in mer cy therein, according to the Constitution and laws of the fame.” Sell. VI. He shall be Commander in Chief in and over the state of Georgia, and of the militia thereof. Seth Vil. He shall have power to grant re prieves for offences against the state, except in cases of impeachment; and to grant pardons in all cases after convi&ion, except for treason or murder, in which cases he may respite the execu tion, and make a report thereof to the next General Aflernbly, by whom a pardon may be granted. Sett. VIII. He shall issue writs of ele&ion to hll up all vacancies that happen in the Senate or House of Representatives, and fliall have power to convene the General Assembly on extraordinary occasions, and fliall give them from time to time information of the state of the republic, and re commend to their consideration such measures as he may deem necessary and expedient. Sett. IX In case of disagreement between the Senate and House of Reprelentatives, with refpedt to the time to which the General Assembly Iliall -ujurum, lie tuny aujuum mem iu iwi umc ao U v, m »y think proper* ktei A. He fli ll have the revision of all bills pafled by both Houses before the fame shall be come laws; but two-thirds of both Houses may pals a ] aw notvvithftanding his dissent; and if any bill should not be returned by the Governor within five days after it hath been presented to him, the fame fliall be a law, unless the General Assembly ' Seti'.' XK 1,1, m en i;, s , etnrn . deposited in the Office of the Secretary, and it (hall not be affixed to any mftrument of writing without it be by order of the Governor or the General Assembly; and the General Assembly may i diredt the Great Seal to be altered. (article iii. Sett. I. A Superior Court shall be held in each county twice in every year, in which fliall be tried and brought to final decision, all causes civil and criminal, except such as may be fubjefl to a Fede ral Court, and such as may by law be referred to inferior jurildidions. . . . Sett. Jl. The General Assembly Ihnll pou-t out the mode of corredting errors and appeals, which shall extend as far as to empower the Judges to diredt a new trial by jury within the county where the adtion originated, which (ha 1 be final. Seft. 111. Courts merchant shall be held as hei e tofore. fubjedt to such regulations as the Genera Assembly may by law diredt. county Sea IV. All caules^ sh .11 be tried in the where the defendant refutes, except ,n w u e ..,. estate, which shall be tried in the co >