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in this Constitution, shall commence on the first Monday of May
next ensuing their appointment, and continue for two years
(unless removed from office) and until their successors, respec-
tively, 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.
Dyer v. Bayne, 64 Md. 87. Smoot v. Somerville, 59 Md. 84.

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.

Smoot v. Somerville, 59 Md. 84.

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 miscon-
duct, all civil officers who received appointment from the Execu-
tive for a term of years.

Cantwell v. Owens, 14 Md. 215. Harman o Harwood, 58 Md. 1.

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.

SEC. 17. To guard against hasty or partial legislation, and
encroachments of the Legislative Department upon the co-ordi-
nate 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
reconsider the Bill; if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths of