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

 shall think proper, not exceeding four months. 



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



Sect. XIV. In case of the death or resignation of the Governor, or his 

 removal from office, the speaker of the Senate shall exercise the office of 

 Governor, until another Governor shall be duly qualified; but in such 

 case another Governor shall be chosen at the next annual election of 

 representatives, unless such death, resignation or removal, shall occur 

 within three calendar months immediately preceding such next annual 

 election, in which case a Governor shall be chosen at the second succeed- 

 ing annual election of representatives. And if the trial of a contested 

 election shall continue longer than until the third Monday of January 

 next ensuing the election of Governor, the Governor of last year, or the 

 speaker of the Senate, who may be in the exercise of the executive 

 authority, shall continue therein until the determination of such con- 

 tested election, and until a Governor shall be duly qualified as aforesaid. 



OF the secretary of the commonwealth. 

 Sect. XV. The secretary of the Commonwealth shall keep a fair regis- 

 ter of all the official acts and proceedings of the Governor, and shall, 

 when required, lay the same and all papers, minutes and vouchers rela- 

 tive thereto, before either branch of the Legislature, and shall perform 

 such other duties as shall be enjoined him by law. 



ARTICLE III. 



OF elections. 



Sect. I. In elections by the citizens, every white freeman of the age 

 of twenty-one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the 

 election district where he offers to vote ten days immediately preceding 

 such election, and within two years paid a state or county tax, which shall 

 have been assessed at least ten days before the election, shall enjoy the 

 rights of an elector ; but a citizen of the United States who had previ- 

 ously been a qualified voter of this State, and removed therefrom, and 

 returned, and who shall have resided in the election district, and paid 

 taxes as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, after residing in the State six 

 months: Provided, That white freemen, citizens of the United States, 

 between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two years, and having resided 

 in the State one year, and in the election district ten days, as aforesaid, 

 shall be entitled to vote, although they shall no': have paid taxes. 



Sect. II. All elections shall be by ballot, except those by persons in 

 :^heir representative capacities, who shall vote viva voce. 



Sect. III. Electors shall, in all cases, except treason, felony and breach 

 or surety of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance 

 on elections, and in going to and returning from them. 



