CONSTITUTION OF 1790. HI 



Section YIII. He shall appoint all ofliccrs, whose offices are established 

 by this Constitution, or shall be established by law, and whose appoint- 

 ments are not herein otherwise provided for; but no person shall be 

 appointed to an office within any County, who shall not have been a 

 citizen and inhabitant therein one year next before his appointment, if 

 the county shall have been so long erected ; but if it shall not have been 

 so long erected, then within the limits of the County or Counties out of 

 which it shall have been taken. No member of Congress from this State 

 nor any person holding or exercising any office of trust or profit under 

 the United States, shall, at the same time, hold or exercise the office of 

 Judge, Secretary, Treasurer, Prothonotary, Eegistcr of wills, Recorder of 

 deeds. Sheriff, or any office in this State, to which a Salary is by law an- 

 nexed, or any other office, which future Legislatures shall declare incom- 

 patible with offices or appointments under the United States. 



Section IX. He shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, and 

 grant reprieves and pardons, except in case of impeachment. 



Section X. He may require information, in writing, from the officers 

 in the executive department, upon any subject relating to the duties of 

 their respective offices. 



Section XI. He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assem- 

 bly information of the state of the commonwealth, and recommend to 

 their consideration sucb measures as he shall judge expedient. 



Section XII. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the Gen- 

 eral Assembly; and in case of disagreement between the two Houses, 

 with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he 

 shall think proper, not exceeding four months. 



Section XIII. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. 



Section XIV. In case of the death or resignation of the Governor, or 

 of his removal from office, the Speaker of the Senate shall exercise the 

 office of Governor, until another Governor shall be duly qualified. And 

 if the trial of a contested election shall continue longer than until the 

 third Tuesday in December next ensuing the election of a Governor, the 

 Governor of the last year, or the Speaker of the Senate, who may be m 

 the exercise of the executive authority, shall continue therein until the 

 determination of such contested election, and a Governor shall be quah- 



fied as aforesaid. . . ■, ■, ■ 



Section XV. A Secretary shall be appointed and commissioned during 



the Governor's continuance in office, if he shall so long behave himself 

 well- He shall keep a fair register of all the official acts and proceedings 

 of the Governor, and shall, when required, lay the same and a 1 papers, 

 minutes and vouchers relative thereto before either branch ot the Le^s- 

 lature, and shall perform such other duties as shall be enjoined him 

 by law. 



