sentence of a Court-Martial; and may remove for incompe-
tency or misconduct all civil officers who received appoint-
ment from the Executive for a term of years..

SEC. 16. The Governor shall convene the Legislature, or
the Senate alone, on extraordinary occasions; and when-
ever from the presence of any enemy, or from any 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
coordinate 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 objec-
tions at large on its Journal and proceed to reconsider the
Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths of the mem-
bers elected to that House shall pass the Bill, it shall be sent
with the objections to the other House, by which it shall
likewise be reconsidered, and if it pass by three-fifths of the
members elected to that House it shall become a law; but in
all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined
by yeas and nays, and the names of the person voting for
and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each
House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the
Governor within six days (Sundays excepted), after it shall
have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like
manner as if he signed it, unless the General Assembly
shall, by adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it
shall not be a law..

The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item
or items of any Bills making appropriations of money em-
bracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the Bill ap-
proved shall be the law, and the item or items of appropria-
tions disapproved shall be void unless repassed according to
the rules or limitations prescribed for the passage of other
Bills over the Executive veto. 1.

SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the Governor, semi-
annually (and oftener, if he deems it expedient) to examine
under oath the Treasurer and Comptroller of the State on.

1 Thus amended by Chapter 194, Acts of 1890, ratified by the people Novem-
ber 3, 1891..