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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. f 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.