COXSTITUTIOX OF 1776. 99 



of a Seat in the General Assembly, Executive Council, or Continental 

 Congress. 



SECTION THE TWENTIETH. 



The President, and in his Absence the Vice-president, with the coun- 

 cil, five of whom shall be a Quorum, shall have Power to appoint and 

 commissionate Judges, Naval-officers, Judge of the Admiralty, Attorney- 

 general and all other Officers, civil and military, except such as are chosen 

 by the General Assembly, or the People, agreeable to this Frame of 

 Government and the Laws that may be made hereafter ; and shall supply 

 every Vacancy in any Office occasioned by Death, Resignation, Removal 

 or Disqualification, until the Office can be filled in the Time and Manner 

 directed by Law or this Constitution. They are to correspond with 

 other States, and transact Business with the Officers of Government 

 civil and military, and to prepare such Business as may appear to them 

 necessary to lay before the General Assembly. They shall sit as Judges 

 to hear and determine on impeachments, taking to their Assistance, for 

 Advice only, the Justices of the Supreme Court; and shall have Power 

 to grant Pardons and remit Eines in all Cases whatsoever, except in 

 Cases of Impeachment; and in Cases of Treason and Murder, shall have 

 Power to grant Reprieves, but not to pardon, until the End of the next 

 Sessions of Assembly. But there shall be no Remission or Mitigation 

 of Punishment on Impeachments, except by Act of the Legislature. 

 They are also to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed; they 

 are to expedite the Execution of such Measures as may be resolved upon 

 by the General Assembly ; and they may draw upon the Treasury for 

 such Sums as shall be appropriated by the House. They may also Tay 

 Embargoes, or prohibit the Exportation of any Commodity, for any 

 Time not exceeding thirty Days in the Recess of the House only. They 

 may grant such Licenses as shall be directed by Law: and shall have 

 Power to call together the General Assembly when necessary, before 

 the Day to which they shall stand adjourned. The President shall 

 be Commander-in-chief of the Forces of the State, but shall not com- 

 mand in Person, except advised thereto by the Council, and then only 

 so long as they shall approve thereof. The President and Council shall 

 have a Secretary, and keep fair Books of their Proceedings wherein 

 any Counsellor may enter his Dissent, with his Reasons in support 

 of it. 



SECTION THE TWENTY-FIRST. 



All Commissions shall be in the Name and by the Authority of the 

 Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, sealed with the State 

 Seal, signed by the President or Vice-President, and attested by the 

 Secretary; which seal shall be kept by the Council. 



