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effort to "buy" approval of a certain measure; the provision
prohibiting the General Assembly from decreasing salary
will protect the governor and lieutenant governor against ,
a hostile General Assembly.
"Salary" as used in this section is only intenddd
to include the wage the governor and lieutenant governor ;
i receive for their services. It is the intent of the com-
mittee that the General Assembly should be able to adjust
from time to time the various expenses and allowances
provided by law for the governor and lieutenant governor
without regard to the limitations in this section.
' "Term," as used in this section, is intended
to mean that period of time for which the governor or
lieutenant governor serve as the result of a single election.
Typically under section 4.05 of the proposed draft, this
period will be four years. Hence, if the General Assembly
raised the governor's salary during the governor's first
four years in office, the governor could, if re-elected, b-
gin receiving this increase during his second four years
in office. I
It should be noted that it is possible under 1