122 CONSTITUTION OF MARYLAND. [ART. II

Sec. 15. The Governor may suspend or arrest any military
officer of the State for disobedience of orders or other mili-
tary offence; and may remove him in pursuance of the sen-
tence of a Court Martial; and may remove for incompetency or
misconduct all civil officers who received appointment from the
Executive for a term of years.

Cantwell v. Owens, 14 Md. 215 Harman v. Harwood, 58 Md. 1. Town-
send v. Kurtz, 83 Md 331 School Commrs v. Goldsborough, 90 Md. 195.

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 meet-
ing 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 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 origi-
nated, which House shall enter the objections at large on its
Journal and proceed to reconsider the Bill; if, after such recon-
sideration, three-fifths of the members elected to tha,t 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 persons 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 embrac-
ing distinct items, and the part or parts of the Bill approved
shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriations dis-
approved shall be void unless repassed according to the rules