016    CONSTITUTION    OF    NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

EXECUTIVE POWER.

GOVERNOR.

41. There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be
styled Governor of the State of New-Iiampshire; and whose title shall

be His Excellency.    iy

42. The Governor shall be chosen annually in the month of March;
and the votes for Governor shall he received, sorted, counted, certified,
and returned, in the same manner as the votes for Senators; and the
Secretary shall lay the same before the Senate and House of Represen-
tatives, on the first Wednesday of June, to be by them examined; and
in case of an election by a majority of votes through the State, the
choice shall he by them declared and published. And the qualifica-
tions of electors of the Governor shall be the same as those for senators;
and if no person shall have a majority of votes, the Senate and House
of Representatives shall, by a joint ballot, elect one of the two persons
having the highest number of votes, who shall be declared Governor.

And no person shall be eligible to this office unless, at the time of his
election he shall have been an inhabitant of this State for seven years
next preceding, and unless he shall be of the age of thirty years [and
unless he-shall at the same time have an estate of the value of five hun-
dred pounds, one half of which shall consist of a freehold of his own '
right within this State],* and unless he shall be of the Protestant re-
ligion.

43. In cases of disagreement between the two houses with regard to
the time or place of adjournment or prorogation, the Governor, with
advice of Council, shall have a right to adjourn or prorogue the General
Court, not exceeding ninety days at any one time, as he may determine
the public good may require; and he shall dissolve the same seven days
before the said first Wednesday of June. And in case of any infections
distemper prevailing in the place where the said Court at any time is to
convene, or any other cause whereby dangers may arise to the health or
lives of tile members from their attendance, the Governor may direct
the session to he holden at some other, the most convenient place within
the State.

44. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses of the General
Court, shall, before it became a law, he presented to the Governor; if
he approve, he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his ob-
jections, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall
enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider
it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree
to pass the hill, it shall be sent, together with such objections, to the
other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if ap-
proved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all
such eases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yetis and
nays ; and the names of the persons voting for or against the bill shall
be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bVll shall
not he returned by the Governor within five days (Sunday excepted) after
it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like man-
ner as if lie had signed it unless the Legislature, by their adjournment,

prevent its return, in which ease it shall not be a law.    A

45. Every resolve shall be presented to the Governor, and, before the    '
same shall take effect, shall be approved by him; or, being disapproved

hv him, shall be re-passed by the Senate and House of Representatives,
according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

46. All judicial officers, the attorney-general, solicitors, all sheriffs,
coroners, registers of probate, and all officers of the navy, and general
and field officers of the militia, shall be nominated and appointed by the

* See Amendment.