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place, shall be made to the Senate, within thirty days
after the next meeting of the Legislature.
SEC. 12. No person, after being rejected by the Sen-
ate, 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 Leg-
islature.
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 Legislature; and their term of office, except in cases
otherwise provided for in this Constitution, shall com-
mence on the first Monday of May next ensuing their ap-
pointment, and continue for two years unless removed
from office, and until their successors respectively quali-
fy according to Law; but the term of office of the Inspect-
ors 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 Sen-
ate have the power to fill, the Governor shall nominate to
the Senate before its final adjournment, a proper person
to fill said vacancy, unless such vacancy occurs within ten
days before said final adjournment.
SEC. 15. The Governor may suspend, or arrest any
military officerl of the State for disobedience of orders, or
other military offence; and may remove him in pursu-
ance of the sentence of a Court-Martial; and may remove
for incompetency or misconduct, all civil officers, who re-
ceived 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 Dele-
gates 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 objec-
tions to the House in which it originated, which House
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