III. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature, by adjourning, shall prevent its returning; in which case it shall not become a law without the signature of the Governor.

IV. No bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the Legislature, unless approved by the Governor within thirty days after such adjournment.

IMPEACHMENT.

Q. What class of persons can be tried in the court of impeachment?

A. Public officers that have had charges preferred against them by the Assembly. Q. Of whom is the court of impeachment composed ?

A. Of the Senators, or a majority of them, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, or a majority of them, and the LieutenantGovernor; and two-thirds of all present must concur in order to convict.

Q. When shall the Lieutenant-Governor not act as a member of this court?

A. When the Governor is being tried. He may be presumed to be an interested

party, for if the Governor should be found guilty and be removed, the Lieutenant-Governor becomes Governor.

Q. What penalty can be inflicted by this court?

A. Removal from office, or removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit, underthis state.

Q. Can such parties be further punished? A. Yes; they may be indicted, tried and punished according to law, by fine or imprisonment, or both, according to the nature of the crime.

VOTING.

Q. Who are entitled to vote upon all questions in the Legislature?

A. All the members in the Assembly and Senate; and this includes the Speaker of the Assembly.

Q. When is the President of the Senate entitled to vote?

A. Upon questions on which the Senate is equally divided or tied.

Q. Why should not the President of the Senate have a vote upon all questions?

A. Because he has not been elected a member of that body; but becomes its presiding officer by virtue of the constitutional

provision which makes the Lieutenant-Governor its president.

KINDS OF VOTING.

Q. Name some of the kinds of voting practiced.

I. By showing hands.

II. By Acclamation.

III. By dividing or separating the persons voting into two bodies.

IV. By Ballot.

V. By Ayes and Noes. VI. By Viva Voce.

Q. Where are the first three kinds of voting usually practiced?

A. In conventions of different kinds, primary meetings, &c.

Q. Where is the fourth kind of voting practiced?

A. Usually in the election of officers of different kinds.

Q. Where is the fifth kind of voting used?

A. Usually in the Legislature and some other deliberative bodies, and in this way: the names of the persons entitled to vote are arranged alphabetically, and as the clerk calls the roll each member responds aye or nay as he wishes to vote for or against the bill or resolution.

Q. When and how is the sixth kind of voting used?

A. In the election of United States Senators, usually the Speaker of the Assembly, and a few other officers, and in this way: as the names of those entitled to vote are called, they respond by naming their candidate.

SALARY.

Q. How are Assemblymen and Senators paid?

I. By a salary fixed by the constitution, of one thousand five hundred dollars, II. And one dollar for every ten miles travelled in going to and returning from the place of meeting, once in each session on the most usual route.

III. Senators when covened in extraordinary session, or when serving as members of the Court of Impeachment, and such members of the Assembly, not exceeding nine in number, as shall be appointed managers of an impeachment, shall receive ten dollars a day additional allowance.

STATE.

A tabular view of officers, showing the source from whence they derive their authority:

Executive Governor.

Executive

Presiding Officer Lieut. Governor.

Administrative

{

(Secretary of State. Comptroller.

Treasurer.

Attorney General.
State Engineer and
Surveyor.

Judicial {Judges of the Court of

Appeals.

Superintendent of Banking.
Superintendent of Insurance.
Canal Auditor.

Superintendent of Prisons.
Superintendent of Public Works.
Notaries Public.

State Assessors.

Loan Commissioners.
Canal Appraisers.

Quarantine Commissioners.

Trustees of State Institutions, and some others.

Superintendent of Public Instruc

tion.

Regents of the University.
United States Senators.