case of reprieve, commutation, or pardon granted, and the reasons therefor. He shall also have power to remit fines and forfeitures, and shall report to the General Assembly at its next session, the names of persons in whose favor such remittances are made, and the amount so remitted.

SEC. 14. No member of congress, or person holding any office under the United States, or this State, shall exercise the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor.

SEC. 15. The Governor shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected.

SEC, 16. The Lieutenant Governor shall, by virtue of his office, be president of the Senate, have a right, when in committee of the whole, to debate and vote on all subjects, and when the Senate are equally divided to give the casting vote.

SEC. 17. In case of impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death, refusal to qualify, resignation, or absence from the State, the Lieutenant Governor shall exercise all the powers and authority appertaining to the office of Governor, until another be duly qualified, or the Governor absent or impeached, shall return or be acquitted.

SEC. 18. Whenever the government shall be administered by the Lieutenant Governor, or he shall be unable to attend as president of the Senate, the Senate shall elect one of their own numbers as president for that occasion. And if, during the vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall be impeached, removed from office, refuse to qualify, resign, die, or be absent from the State, the president of the Senate pro tem. shall, in like manner, administer the government, until he shall be superseded by a Governor or Lieutenant Governor. The Lieutenant Governor while he acts as president of the Senate, shall receive for his services the same compensation which shall, for the same period, be allowed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and no more: And during the time he administers the government, as Governor, shall receive the same compensation which the Governor would have received and been entitled to, had he been employed in the duties of his office, and no more.

SEC. 19. The president pro tempore of the Senate, during the time he administers the government, shall receive, in like manner, the same compensation which the Governor would have received, had he been employed in the duties of his office, and no more.

SEC. 20. If the Lieutenant Governor shall be called upon to administer the government, and shall, while in such administration, resign, die, or be absent from the State, during the recess of the General Assembly, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, for the time being, to convene the Senate for the purpose of choosing a president pro tempore.

SEC. 21. Vacancies that may happen in offices, the appointment of which is vested in the Governor, or in the General Assembly.

shall be filled by the Governor during the recess of the General Assembly, by granting commissions that shall expire at the end of the next session.

SEC. 22. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses of the General Assembly, shall be presented to the Governor: If he approve, he shall sign it; but if not he shall return it with his objections, to the House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon their journals; and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of all the members elected to that House, shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections to the other House, by which it shall lik wise be reconsidered, and, if approved by a majority of all the members elected to that House, it shall be a law; but, in such cases, the vote of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of persons voting for or against the bill, shall be entered on the journals of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within five days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, unless the general adjournment prevents its return; in which case it shall be a law.

SEC. 23. Every resolution to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary, shall be presented to the Governor, and before it shall take effect, be approved by him; or, being disapproved, shall be repassed by a majority of all the members elected to both Houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in case of a bill.

SEC. 24. There shall be a seal of this State, which shall be kept by the Governor and used by him officially, and shall be called "the Seal of the State of Indiana."

SEC. 25. All commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the State of Indiana, and sealed with the State seal and signed by the Governor, and attested by the Secretary of State.

Report concurred in,

And the sections reported were read a first time, and passed to a second reading.

Mr. Smith of Scott, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:

The committee on the elective franchise and apportionment of representation, to whom was referred sundry resolutions on the subject of changing the time of holding general elections, have had that subject under consideration, and have instructed me to report the following section and recommend its adoption, to-wit:

NUMBER 18.

SECTION 1. All general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday in October, biennially.

Which report was concurred in,

And the section reported read a first time and passed to a second reading.

Mr. Hendricks submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:

The committee on finance and taxation, to whom was referred several resolutions on the subject of prohibiting, by provision in the new Constitution, the Legislature from contracting debts on the part of the State, without the consent of the people, &c., have directed me to report the same back to the Convention and recommend that they be laid on the table, the committee on State debt and public works having reported sections for the new Constitution, providin as proposed in the resolutions; and the committee recommend that said sections, now before the Convention, be adopted as parts of the new Constitution. The committee prays to be discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

Which report was concurred in.

Mr. Spann submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:

The committee on the militia of the State, to whom was referred the seventh article of the Constitution of Indiana, and also sundry resolutions of members of this Convention on the same subject, have directed me to report the following article for the consideration and adoption by this Convention.

NUMBER 19.

SECTION 1. The militia of the State of Indiana shall consist of all free, able-bodied male persons, negroes and mulattoes excepted, resident in said State, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and the General Assembly shall, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, provide for the annual enumeration of said militia by the assessors of each county, or otherwise, a copy of which enumerations shall be returned by the clerks of the several counties to the General, and by him made a basis upon which to draw such arms and munitions as may from time to time be due ihe State from the United States.

SEC. 2. The said militia shall be divided into sedentary militia and active militia. The sedentary militia shall consist of all the militia not enrolled in independent volunteer companies, and shall never be called on to do military duty except in case of insurrection, invasion, or war.

The active militia shall consist of independent volunteer companies of cavalry, artillery, grenadiers, infantry, light infantry, riflemen; each company to contain at least thirty-two rank and file, and the members of said companies shall have such exemptions and immunities as the General Assembly may provide by law.

SEC. 3. The companies constituting the active militia shall each elect by ballot its own captain and subalterns, and each captain may appoint the non-commissioned officers of his company: Provided, that no more than three companies of the active militia shall be formed in any one county.

SEC. 4. The companies composing the active militia may form themselves into battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions. Field officers of regiments and separate battalions shall be elected by the commissioned officers of regiments and separate battalions; Brigadier Generals shall be elected by the commanders of the regiment in separate battalions composing such brigade; Major Generals shall be chosen by the commanders of the brigades composing each division; Major and Brigadier Generals and commanding officers of regiments and separate battalions, shall appoint the staff officers of their respective divisions, brigades, regiments, or separate battalions.

SEC. 5. The Governor shall nominate and, with the consent of the Senate, an Adjutant General, a Commissary General, and a Quarter-master General, whose commissions shall expire with the time for which the Governor shall have been elected. The Governor shall appoint his own Aids-de-Camp.

SEC. 6. The General Assembly shall provide by law for drawing the regular quotas of arms and munitions that may from time to time be due the State, and for the proper security and safe keeping of the same; and the companies composing the active militia shall be entitled to draw such arms and munitions from the State as they may require, upon giving approved security for the safe keeping of the same to the Quarter-master General.

SEC. 7. Every commissioned officer of the active militia shall be commissioned for the term of three years, and until his successor is elected, and no commissioned officer shall be removed from office unless by the Senate, upon the recommendation of the Governor, stating the grounds on which such removal is recommended, or by the decision of a court martial, pursuant to law.

SEC. 8. The General Assembly shall provide by law for the building, or procuring of a building, to be used as a State armory, for the security and safe keeping of all arms and munitions that may at any time belong to the State, and not in the hands of companies; said armory to be under the care and superintendance of

the Quarter-master General, who shall be held responsible for the safe keeping and good order of such arms and munitions as may come into his possession.

SEC. 9. The General Assembly shall enact a general military company incorporation law, by which any organized company of the active militia, of the proper size, may incorporate itself with power to enforce such rules and regulations among its members as it may adopt for its government, and with such other powers as may be deemed expedient.

SEC. 10. The General Assembly may, at any time, in prospect of insurrection, invasion, or war, provide for the organization of the sedentary militia.

Which report was concurred in,

And the sections read a first time and passed to a second reading.

Mr. Walpole, from the committee on miscellaneous provisions of the Constitution, submitted the following report:

MR. PRESIDENT:

The committee to whom was referred a resolution of the Convention instructing said committee to inquire into the expediency of incorporating in the new Constitution a provision that no county seat shall be removed until the point to which it is proposed to be removed shall be fixed by law, and a majority of the voters of the county, voting on the question, shall have voted in favor of its removal to such point.

The committee have fully considered the importance of the question, and have unanimously instructed me in their behalf to report that it is inexpedient to incorporate such a provision in the Constitution, and that the same should be left to legislative action, and ask to be discharged from the further consideration of the resolution.

Report concurred in,

And committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

Mr. Owen gave notice that to-morrow he would move so to amend the rule regulating the order of business as that on Saturday of each week resolutions shall take precedence of the orders of the day.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

The question being upon the amendment of Mr. Carr to the second section of No. 1, of the reported sections of the new Constitution, pending on the adjournment on yesterday,