CONSTITUTION — ART. II.

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insurrections, and enforce the execution of the laws; but shall not take the
command in person, without the consent of the legislature.

to command in
person.

SEC 9 Ho shall take cure that the laws are faithfully executed

His duties

SEC 10 He shall nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, appoint all civil and military officers of the State, whose appointment
or election is not otherwise herein provided for; unless a different mode of
appointment be prescribed by the law creating the office

Appointments.
25 Md 173
7 Md 151
14 Md 215

SEC 11 In case of any vacancy, during the recess of the Senate, in any
office which the governor has power to fill, he shall appoint some suitable per-
son to said office, whose commission shall continue in force until the end of the
next session of the legislature, or until some other person is appointed to the
same office, whichever shall first occur; and the nomination of the person
thus appointed, during the recess, or, of some other person in his place, shall
be made to the Senate within thirty days after the next meeting of the legis-
lature

Appointments
during recess
41 Md 117
2 Md 341
14 Md 215.
1862, c 68

SEC 12. No person, after being rejected by the Senate, shall be again nomi-
nated 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

Persons
rejected not to
be appointed

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 fur in this Constitution, shall commence on the first Mon-
day of May next ensuing their appointment, and continue for two years (unless
removed from office), and until their successors, respectively, qualify according

Time of nomi-
nation
24 Md 202

to law; but the term of office of the inspectors of tobacco shall commence, on
the first Monday of March next ensuing their appointment

Term of office

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
vacancy, unless such vacancy occurs within ten days before said final adjourn-
ment

Vacancy during
session

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 incom-
petency or misconduct, all civil officers who received appointment from the ex-
ecutive for a term of years.

Courts-martial
41 Md 137
14 Md 215.

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 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

Extra sessions
of legislature

SEC 17 To guard against hasty or partial legislation and encroachments of
the legislative department upon the co-ordinate executive and judicial depart-
ments, every bill which shall have passed the House of Delegates and the Senate,
shall, before it becomes n law, be presented to the governor of the State; if he
approve, be 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

Veto power

on its journal, and proceed to reconsider the bill; if, after such reconsidera-
tion, 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 be
reconsidered, and if passed 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

Three-fifths of
each House may
pass a vetoed
bill.

determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and
against the bill, shall bo entered on the journal of each house, respectively. If

Yeas and nays.

any bill shall not be returned by the governor within six days (Sundays ex-
cepted), after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in

Veto within six
days