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CONSTITUTION OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

general or particular expressions contained therein, descriptive of the
offense or offenses intended to be pardoned.

53. No officer, duly commissioned to command in the militia, shall
be removed from his office but by the address of both Houses to the
Gevernoi\ or by fair trial in court-martial, pursuant to the laws of the
State for the time being.

54. The commanding officers of the regiments shall appoint their ad-
jutants and quartermasters; the brigadiers, their brigade majors; the
major-generals, their aids; the captains and subalterns their non-com-
missioned officers.

55. The division of the militia into brigades, regiments, and compa-
nies, made in pursuance of the militia daws now in force, shall be
considered as the proper division of the militia of this State, until the
same shall be altered by some future law.

56. No moneys shall be issued out of the treasury of this State, and dis-
posed of (except such sums as may be appropriated for the redemption
of bills of credit or Treasurer’s notes, or for the payment of interest aris-
ing thereon), but by warrant under the hand of the Governor for the,
time being, by and with the .advice and consent of the Council, for the’
necessary support and defense of this State, and for the necessary protec-
tion and preservation of the inhabitants thereof, agreeably to the acts
and resolves of the General Court.

57. All public boards, the commissary-general, all superintending offi-
cers of public magazines and stores belonging to this State, and all com-
manding officers of forts and garrisons within the same, shall, once in
every three months, officially, and without requisition, and at other times
when required by the Governor, deliver to him ail account of all goods,
stores, provisions, ammunition, cannon with their appendages, and all
small arms with their accouterments, and all other public property un-
der their care respectively; distinguishing the quantity and kind of each
as particularly as may be: together with the condition of such forts and
garrisons; and the commanding officer shall exhibit to the Governor,
when required by him, true and exact plans of such forts, and of the land
and sea, or harbor or harbors adjacent.

_58. The Governor and Council shall be compensated for their services,
from time to time, by such grants as the General Court shall think rea-
sonable.

59.- Permanent and honorable salaries shall be established by law for
the justices of the superior court.

COUNCIL.

60. There shall be annually elected by ballot five councilors, for ad-
vising the Governor in the executive part of government. The freehol-
ders and other inhabitants in each county, qualified to vote for senators,
shall, some time in the month of March, give in their votes for one coun-
cilor; which vote shall be received, sorted, counted, certified and re-
turned to the Secretary’s office, in the same manner as the votes for sen-
ators, to be by the Secretary laid before the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives on the first Wednesday of June.

61. And the person having a majority of votes in any county shall be
considered as duly elected a councilor; but if 110 person shall have a
majority of votes in any county, the Senate and House of Representa-
tives shall take the names of the two persons who have the highest num-
ber of votes in each county, and not elected, anti out of those two shall
elect by joint ballot the councilor wanted for each county; and the qual-
ifications for councilor shall be the same as for senator.

62. If any person thus chosen a councilor shall be elected Governor,
or member of either branch of the Legislature, and shall accept the trust;
or if any person elected a councilor shall refuse to accept the office; or in
the case of the death, resignation, or removal of any councilor out of the

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