ineligible until

ed.

General Assembly, except attorneys at law, justices of the peace, and militia officers: Provided, That attorneys for the Commonwealth, who receive a fixed annual salary, shall be ineligible.

SEC. 28. No person, who at any time may have been a Collector of tax collector of taxes or public moneys for the State, or the quietus is obtain assistant or deputy of such collector, shall be eligible to the General Assembly unless he shall have obtained a quietus six months before the election, for the amount of such collection, and for all public moneys for which he may have been responsible.

malities.

SEC. 29. No bill shall have the force of a law, until, on Bills, their for three several days, it be read over in each House of the General Assembly, and free discussion allowed thereon; unless, in cases of urgency, four fifths of the House where the bill shall be depending, may deem it expedient to dispense with this rule.

where they are to

originate.

SEC. 30. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in Revenue bills the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose amendments, as in other bills: Provided, That they shall not introduce any new matter, under color of amendment, which does not relate to raising revenue.

SEC. 31. The General Assembly shall regulate, by law, Writs of election, by whom, and in what manner writs of election shall be issued to fill the vacancies which may happen in either branch thereof.

divorces, change

SEC. 32. The General Assembly shall have no power to Shall not grant grant divorces, to change the names of individuals, or direct names, or direct the sales of estates belonging to infants, or other persons laboring under legal disabilities, by special legislation; but by general laws shall confer such powers on the courts of justice.

sales of infants' estates, &c.

SEC. 33. The credit of this Commonwealth shall never be Credit of State given or loaned in aid of any person, association, municipality, or corporation.

not to be given or baned.

Resources of the Sinking Fund not to be diminished.

SEC. 34. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws to diminish the resources of the sinking fund, as now established by law, until the debt of the State be paid, but may pass laws to increase them; and the whole resources of said fund, from year to year, shall be sacredly set apart and applied to the payment of the interest and principal of

the State debt, and to no other use or purpose, until the whole debt of the State is fully paid and satisfied.

SEC. 35. The General Assembly may contract debts to meet casual deficits or failures in the revenue, but such debts, direct or contingent, singly or in the aggregate, shall not, at any time, exceed five hundred thousand dollars; and the moneys arising from loans creating such debts shall be applied to the purposes for which they were obtained, or to repay such debts: Provided, That the State may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or, if hostilities are threatened, provide for the public defense.

SEC. 36. No act of the General Assembly shall authorize any debt to be contracted on behalf of the Commonwealth, except for the purposes mentioned in the thirty-fifth section of this article, unless provision be made therein to lay and collect an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest stipulated, and to discharge the debt within thirty years; nor shall such act take effect until it shall have been submitted to the people at a general election, and shall have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it: Provided, That the General Assembly may contract debts by borrowing money to pay any part of the debt of the State without submission to the people, and without making provision in the act authorizing the same for a tax to discharge the debt so contracted, or the interest thereon. (b)

late to more than one subject.

SEC. 37. No law enacted by the General Assembly shall No law shall rerelate to more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.

SEC. 38. The General Assembly shall not change the venue in any criminal or penal prosecution, but shall provide for the same by general laws.

SEC. 39. The General Assembly may pass laws authorizing writs of error in criminal or penal cases, and regulating the right of challenge of jurors therein.

SEC. 40. The General Assembly shall have no power to

Changes of venue vided for.

-how to be pro

Writs of error in nal cases. Appropriation of money to be voted on by yeas &

criminal and pe

nays.

(6) The thirty-sixth section of article two applies in terms to debts contracted on the part of the Commonwealth, and not to such as may be contracted by or on behalf of one or more Counties. (Stack, &c., vs. Maysville and Lexington Railroad Company, 13 B. M., 16; Shelby County Court vs. C. and O. R. R. Co., 8 Bush, 209.)

2. If all the provisions of a statute relate directly or indirectly to the same subject, have a natural connection, and are not foreign to the subject expressed in the title, it will not be repugnant to the thirty-seventh section of article two. (2d Metcalfe, p. 150; same, pp. 168–9; same, . 222; Johnson vs. Higgins, 3 Metcalfe, p. 569; 8 Bush, p. 108; same, p. 348.)

3. Examples of provisions in statutes violative of this section. (4 Met., p. 75; 2 Duvall, op. 478-9.)

GEN. STAT.-7

The

power.

pass any act or resolution, for the appropriation of any money, or the creation of any debt, exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, at any one time, unless the same, on its final passage, shall be voted for by a majority of all the members then elected to each branch of the General Assembly; and the yeas and nays thereon entered on the journal.

ARTICLE III.

Concerning the Executive Department.

SEC. 1. The supreme executive power of the Commonexecutive wealth shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

for four years.

SEC. 2. The Governor shall be elected for the term of four Governor elected years, by the qualified voters of the State, at the time when and places where they shall respectively vote for Representatives. The person having the highest number of votes shall be Governor; but if two or more shall be equal and highest in votes, the election shall be determined by lot, in such manner as the General Assembly may direct.

SEC. 3. The Governor shall be ineligible for the succeeding Ineligible for suc- four years after the expiration of the term for which he shall have been elected.

ceeding 4 years.

SEC. 4. He shall be at least thirty-five years of age, and a Qualifications for citizen of the United States, and have been an inhabitant of this State at least six years next preceding his election.

and termination of his service.

SEC. 5. He shall commence the execution of the duties Commencement of his office on the fifth Tuesday succeeding the day of the general election on which he shall have been chosen, and shall continue in the execution thereof until his successor shall have taken the oaths or affirmations prescribed by this Constitution.

Who ineligible.

Compensation.

and restrictions.

SEC. 6. No member of Congress, or person holding any office under the United States, or minister of any religious society, shall be eligible to the office of Governor.

SEC. 7. 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 was elected.

SEC. 8. He shall be commander in chief of the army and Military powers navy of this Commonwealth, and of the militia thereof, except when they shall be called into the service of the United States; but he shall not command personally in the field, unless advised so to do by a resolution of the General Assembly.

cies.

SEC. 9. He shall have power to fill vacancies that may May fill vacanoccur, by granting commissions, which shall expire when such vacancies shall have been filled according to the provisions of this Constitution.

Governor.

SEC. 10. He shall have power to remit fines and forfeit- Powers of the ures, grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of impeachment. In cases of treason, he shall have power to grant reprieves until the end of the next session of the General Assembly, in which the power of pardoning shall be vested; but he shall have no power to remit the fees of the clerk, sheriff, or Commonwealth's Attorney, in penal or criminal cases.

SEC. 11. He may require information, in writing, from the officers in the executive department, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.

May require in

formation from

executive officers

Shall give inform

ation to the Gen

SEC. 12. He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, eral Assembly. and recommend to their consideration such measures as he may deem expedient.

SEC. 13. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly at the Seat of Government, or at a different place, if that should have become, since their last adjournment, dangerous from an enemy or from contagious disorders; and in case of disagreement between the two Houses with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months.

May convene the bly.

General Assem

SEC. 14. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully General duty. executed.

ernor, election of.

SEC. 15. A Lieutenant Governor shall be chosen at every Lieutenant Govregular election for Governor, in the same manner, to continue in office for the same time, and possess the same qualifications as the Governor. In voting for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the electors shall state for whom they vote as Governor, and for whom as Lieutenant Governor.

the Senate.

SEC. 16. He shall, by virtue of his office, be Speaker of To be Speaker 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.

Governor.

SEC. 17. Should the Governor be impeached, removed When to act as from office, die, refuse to qualify, resign, or be absent from the State, the Lieutenant Governor shall exercise all the

When Senate to appoint a Speak

power and authority appertaining to the office of Governor, until another be duly elected and 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 fail to attend as er pro tempore. Speaker of the Senate, the Senators shall elect one of their own members as Speaker 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 Speaker of the Senate shall, in like manner, administer the Government: Provided, That whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Governor before the first two years' of the term shall have expired, a new election for Governor shall take place to fill such vacancy.

ernor-his compensation.

SEC. 19. The Lieutenant Governor, or Speaker pro tempore Lieutenant Gov- of the Senate, while he acts as Speaker 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 had he been employed in the duties of his office.

On the death of

Lieutenant Gov

ernor, the Secre

tary to convene Senate.

duty of Secretary of State.

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 Speaker.

SEC. 21. The Governor shall nominate, and by and with Appointment the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint a Secretary of State, who shall be commissioned during the term for which the Governor was elected, if he shall so long behave himself well. He shall keep a fair register, and attest all the official acts of the Governor, and shall, when required, lay the same, and all papers, minutes, and vouchers relative thereto, before either House of the General Assembly, and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by law.

SEC. 22. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses, Mode of passing 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 originated, who shall enter the objec

bills, dissent of Governor, &c.