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or of some other person in his place, shall be made to the
Senate, within thirty days after the next meeting of the Leg-
islature.
Sec. 12. No person, after being rejected by the Senate, shall
be again nominated for the same office at the same session,
unless at the request of the Senate; or be appointed to the
same office during the recess of the Legislature.
Sec. 13. All civil officers, appointed by the Governor and
Senate, shall be nominated to the Senate within fifty days
from the commencement of each regular session of the Legis-
lature; and their term of office, except in cases otherwise pro-
vided for in this Constitution, shall commence on the first
Monday of May next ensuing their appointment, and con-
tinue for two years unless removed from office, and until their
successors respectively qualify according to Law; but the
term of office of the Inspectors of Tobacco shall commence on
the first Monday of March next ensuing their appointment.
Sec. 14. If a vacancy shall occur during the session of the
Senate, in any office, which the Governor and Senate have
the power to fill, the Governor shall nominate to the Senate
before its final adjournment, a proper person to fill said va-
cancy, unless such vacancy occurs within ten days before said
final adjournment.
Sec. 15. The Governor may suspend, or arrest any military
officer of the State for disobedience of orders, or other military
offence; and may remove him in pursuance of the sentence
of a Court Martial; and may remove for incompetency or
misconduct, all civil officers, who received appointment from
the Executive for a term of years.
Sec. 16. The Governor shall convene the Legislature, or
the Senate alone, on extraordinary occasions; and whenever,
from the presence of an enemy, or from other cause, the Seat
of Government shall become an unsafe place for the meeting
of the Legislature, he may direct their sessions to be held at
some other convenient place.
Sec. 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation and
encroachments of the Legislative Department upon the co-
ordinate Executive and Judicial Departments, every bill
which shall have passed the House of Delegates and the
Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the
Governor of the State; if he approve, he shall sign it; but if
not, he shall return it with his objections to the House in
which it originated, which House shall enter the objections
at large on its Journal, and proceed to re-consider the Bill;
if after such re-consideration, three-fifths of the members
elected to that House shall pass the bill, it shall be sent, with
the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise
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