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General Aflembly : Nor (hall any Senator or Re
presentative be elected to any office of profit which
(hall be created during his appointment.
Sett. XI. The meeting ot the General Aflembly
(hall be annual, on the firfl: Monday in November,
until such day of meeting be altered by law.
Sett. XII. One third of the members of each
branch (hall have power to proceed to business; but
a smaller number may adjourn from day to day,
and compel the attendance of their members, in
such manner as each house may prescribe.
Sett. XIII. Each House (hail be judges of the
ele&ions, returns, and qualifications of its own
members, with powers to expel or puniffi for dis
orderly behaviour.
Sect. XIV. No Senator or Representative (hall be
liable to be arrested during his attendance on the
General Aflembly, or tor a reasonable time in go
ing thereto or returning home, except it be for
treason, felony, or breach of the peace : Nor (hall
any member be liable to answer (or any thing
spoken in debate in either Houle, in any Court or
place elsewhere.
Sect. XV* The members of the Senate and House
of Representatives (hall take the following oath or
affiliation :
“ I A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that
I have not obtained my election by bribery or other
unlawful means, and that l 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 bed promote the good of this (late, and that
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the fame,
and to the utmost of my power oblerve, support,
and defend the Constitution thereof”
Sett. XVI. The General Aflembly (hall have
power to make all laws and ordinances which they
lhall deem neceflary and proper for the good of
the (late, 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
(late. 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 (hall be laid out; and when any
new county (hall be laid off in the vacant territory
belonging to the (late, such county (hall have a
number of Representatives not exceeding three, to
be regulated and determined by the General As
sembly.
Sect. XVIII. No Clergyman of any denomina
tion (hall be a member ot the General Aflembly
A R T I C L E 11,
Sect. I. The Executive Power shall be veiled
in a Governor, who (hall hold his office during the
term of two years, and (hall be eleded in the fol
lowing manner:
Sect. 11, At the firfl general eledUon, and of
every lecond year thereafter, each county (hall eled
one eledlor, who (hall have the fame qualifications
as a Representative, and the eletf ors so chosen (hall
meet on the day and at the place of the meeting
o( the General Aflembly, and ballot for a Gover
nor, and the person having thegreateft number of
votes (hall be Governor: Provided, that no person
lhall be eligible to that appointment loneer than
fix years out of eight.
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Sect . lir. No person (hall be eligible to the
office of Governor who (hall not have been a c ti
zen at 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
poffeis five hundred acres of land in his own right
within this state, and other species of property to
the amount of one thousand pounds sterling.
Sea. IV. In case of the death, resignation, or
disability of the Governor, the President of the
Senate (hall exercise the Executive powers of Go
vernment, until such disability be removed, or un
til the next meeting of the electors.
Sett. V. The Governor ihall at stated times
receive for his services a compensation which ihall
neither be increased nor diminished during the pe
riod for which he shall be elected; 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 shall take the follow
lowing oath or affirmation :
/ k 1 do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully execute the office of Governor of the
State of Georgia, and will to the best of my abi
lities prelerve, protect and defend the said state, and
cause justice to be executed in mercy therein, ac
cording to the C onftitution and laws of the fame.”
Sea* VI. I Se-shall be Commander in Chief in
and over the state of Georgia, and of thfc militia
thereof.
Sefli 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 convidion, except for treafen or
murder, in which cases he may respite the execu
tion, and make a report thereof to the next General
Assembly, by whom a pardon may be granted.
Sea* V 111. He shall issue writs of eledion to
fill up all vacancies that happen in the Senate
or House of Representatives, and shall have power
to convene the General Assembly on- extraordinary
occanons, and shall give them from time to time
information cf the state of the republic, and re
commend to their confederation such measures as
he may deem necessary and expedient.
Sett. IX In case of disagreement between the
Senate and House of Representatives, with refped
to the time to which the General Assembly shall
adjourn, he may adjourn them to such time as he
may think proper.
Sea. X. He shall have the revision of all bills
passed by both Houses before the fame shall be
come laws ; but two-thirds of both Houses may
pals a law notwithstanding his dissent; and if any
bill fbould not be returned by the Governor within
five days after it hath been presented to him, the
fame shall he a law, unless the General Assembly
by their adjournment should prevent its teturn. i
Sea. XI. The Great Seal of the state shall be
deposited in the Office of the Secretary, and it
shall not be affixed to any instrument of writing
without it be by order of the Governor or the
General Assembly; and the General Assembly may
dired the Great Seal to be altered.
• ARTICLE 111.
Seß. I. A Superior Court shall beheld in each
county twice in every year, in which shall be tried
and brought to final decision, all causes civil and 1
criminal, except such as may be fubjed to a Fede
ral Court, and such as may by law be referred to>
inferior juriididions.