1. low con stituted. 1. How constituted. V. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. I. GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, SECRETARY OF OHIO A 3, S 1. The executive department shall consist of All the states have similar provisions, varying only as to names and number of officers. The following dissimilarities are to be noted: (1) No Lieutenant Governor included: Ariz. A 5, S 1; Ark. A 6, S 1; Me. A 5, Pt. 1, S 1; A 5, Pt. 2, S 1; (2) No Auditor included. (Articles and sections when not noted are Ky. S 69 & 91; Me.; N. H.; R. I. A 7, S 1; A 11, S 1;. Wis. A 5, S 1; (3) No Attorney General included: Ind. A 5, S 1 & 2; A 6, S 1; Iowa A 4, S 2, 3 & 22; N. H.; Vt. A 10 (amdt) & A 28 (amdt); Wyo. (4) Superintendent of Instruction included: Ala. A 5, S 112; Ariz.; Col. A 4, S 1; Fla. A 4, S 20; Idaho A 4, S 1; (5) Superintendent or Commissioner of Agriculture included: (6) Commissioner or register of land office or of public lands, in- Kan.; Ky.; Mich. A 6, S 1; Neb.; N. M.; S. D.; Tex. A 4, S 1; (7) Surveyor General included: Cal. A 5, S 1, 15 & 17; Nev.; N. Y. A 4, S 1; A 5, S 1. (8) Commissioner of Insurance included: Del. A 3, S 1, 2, 10 & 19; N. Dak.; Okla. (9) Superintendent of Labor (sometimes of "Labor and Agriculture") included: Ky.; Md.; Okla. (10) Receiver General included: Mass. Pt. 2, Ch. 2, S 1; A 1, Ch. 2, S 2 & A 17 (amdt). (11) Commissary General included: N. H. (12) Secretary of Internal affairs included: Pa. (13) Adjutant and Inspector General included: S. C. (14) Railroad Commissioners included: N. D. (15) State Examiner and Inspector, chief mine inspector, and Commissioner of Charities and Corrections included: Okla. (16) Executive Council included: Me. A 5, Pt. 2. Mass. A 16 (amdt). N. H. A 59, Pt. 2. N. C. A 3, S 14. II. GENERAL PROVISIONS. See also under Governor, Secretary of State, etc. A few constitutions provide that all officers must be residents of the state, citizen of the United States, and of a certain age. Most of them contain similar provisions with reference to the particular officers. The following contain provisions effecting all officers: (1) Must all be residents of the state: Ark. A 19, S 4; Ariz. A 5, S 2 (five years citizen); Col. A 4, S 4 (two (2) Must all be citizens of the United States: Ariz. ten years); Col.; Ill. A 7, S 6; Mo. A 8, S 12; Mont. A 7, S 2; (3) Must all be of not less than certain age: Sections same as preceding. Ariz. (twenty-five years); N. M. A 5, S 3 (thirty years). (4) Must all have educational qualifications: Maine A 29, (Amdt 1892). No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the constitution of this state who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name: Provided, however, that the provisions of this ame ndment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisition, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to 1. Eligibility. Must all be residents of the state. Must all be citizens of the United States. Must all have educational qualifications. 1. Eligibility to office. Duelists not eligible. Embezzler of public funds, ineligible. Defaulter of public funds, ineligible. Bribery, perjury and other infamous crime, ineligible. any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment takes effect. (5) Two states provide that all officers must be male: Ariz. A 5, S 2; Okla. A 6, S 3. OHIO A 15, S 4. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this state, unless he possess the qualifications of an elector. Provisions similar to the above are found in the following: Ark. A 19, S 3; La. A 210; Miss. A 12, S 250; Nev. A 15, S 3; N. D. OHIO A 15, S 5. No person who shall hereafter fight a duel, Ark. A 19, S 2 (for ten years); Cal. A 20, S 2; Col. A 12, S 12; Ga. A 2, S 4, Par. 1; Ind. A 2, S 7; Kan. A 5, S 5; Ky. S 239; Md. A 2, S 41; Mo. A 14, S 3; Nev. A 13, S 3; N. C. A 14, S 2; Ore. A 2, S 9; Pa. A 12, S 3; Tenn. A.9, S 3; Tex. A 16, S 4; W. Va. A 4, S 10; Wis. A 13, S 2. OHIO A 2, S 5. No person hereafter convicted of an embezzlement of the public funds shall hold any office in this Similar provisions found in the following states: Ala. A 4, S 60; Ark. A 3, S 6; Cal. A 20, S 10; Colo. A 12, S 4; Del. Wisconsin A 13, S 3. Similar provisions are found in the following states: Col. A 12, S 3; Ga. A 2, S 4, Par. 1; Ind. A 2, S 10; III. A 4, S 4; Iowa The following states exclude those convicted of bribery, perjury, and Ala. A 4, S 60; Ark. A 3, S 8; Cal. A 20, S 10 (bribery in own election); Colo. A 12, S 4; Del. A 2, S 21; Idaho A 6, S 3; Ill. A 4, S 4; Ind. A 2, S 6 (bribery in own election, only); Kan. A 5, S 2 (any felony), S 6 (bribery in own election); Ky. S 150; La. A 202 (any felony), A 183 (bribery); Md. A 1, S 3 and A 3, S 50; A 1, S 7 (convicted of violating oath of office); Mass. Pt. 2, Chap. 6, A 2 (corruption in own election, only); Miss. A 4, S 44; Neb. A 14, S 2 (any felony); Nev. A 4, S 10; N. H. Pt. 2, A 95 (corruption in own election, only); N. C. A 6, S 8 (any felony); Ore. A 2, S 7 (bribery in own election); Pa. A 3, S 32; A 8, S 9; R. I. A 9, S 2 (bribery in own election, only); S. C. A 17, S 8 (gambling); S. D. A 3, S 28; Tenn. A 10, S 3 (bribery disqualifies for six years); Tex. A 16, S 5 (similar to Mass.); Wash. A 2, S 30 (corrupt solicitation, and bribery, only); Wis. A 13, S 3 (any infamous crime); Wyo. A 3, S 44 (bribery and corrupt solicitation, only). OHIO A 5, S 4. The General Assembly shall have power to exclude from the privilege of voting or of being eligible to office any person convicted of bribery, perjury or other infamous crime. Similar provisions in the following states: Cal. A 4, S 21; Fla. A 6, S 5; Me. A 9, S 13; Md. A 1, S 3 and A 2, S 50; Legislature may exclude. Mississippi A 14, S 265. No person who denies the existence Must believe of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state. Similar provisions in the following states: Ark. A 19, S 1; N. C. A 6, S 8; S. C. A 17, S 4; Tenn. A 9, S 2. Pennsylvania A 8, S 15. Nor shall any election officer be eligible to any civil office to be filled at any election at which he shall serve, save only to such subordinate, municipal or local offices below the grade of city or county offices as shall be designated by general law. No person holding any lucrative office under the United States, or any other power, eligible to any civil office of profit: Ala. A 17, S 280 (except Post-Masters salary under two hundred dollars); Cal. A 4, S 20; Del. A 3, S 11 (except officers appointed by courts); Fla. A 16, S 15; Ill. A 4, S 3 (except postmasters under three hundred dollars); Ind. A 2, S 9; Ky. S 237; La. A 164; Miss. A 14, S 266 ; Mo. A 14, S 4; Nev. A 4, S 9; N. C. A 14, S 7; Ore. A 2, S 10; Pa. A 12, S 2; R. I. A 9, S 6; Tex. A 16, S 12; Utah A 7, S 23; Vt. Chap. 2, S 26; Wis. A 13, S 3 (postmasters excepted); Wyo. A 6, Pt. 2, S 7. In very few of the states are none of the officers eligible to a succeeding term. In the following there is such a general provision: Ala. A 5, S 116; Ky. S 71 & 93; N. M. A 5, S 1 (except commissioner of public lands and superintendent of instruction). No Ohio provision. Oregon A 2, S 10. Nor shall any person hold more than one lucrative office at the same time, except as in this constitution expressly permitted: Provided, that, officers in the militia to which there is attached no annual salary and the office of postmaster when the compensation does not exceed $100.00 per annum, shall not be deemed lucrative. in God. Election official ineligible. Holder of office. Eligible to To hold no other office during term. 2. Dutles and powers. (1) To take oath of of fice. (2) To make reports and to keep accounts. Similar provisions in the following states: Ala. A 17, S 280; Ark. A 6, S 22; Conn. A 10, S 4; Del. A 3, S 10 (nam- Wyo. A 6, Pt. 2, S 7 (legislature to decide what offices incompatible). Similar provisions in most states; many setting out the oath to be taken: 20, S 3; Colo. A 12, S 8; Ga. A 5, S 1, Par. 10 (govIowa A 11, S 5; Kan. A 2, Ala. A 16, S 279; Ark. Á 19, S 20; Cal. A OHIO A 3, S 20. The officers of the executive department, Similar provisions, with the added requirement that they keep ac- Colo. A 4, S 16 (semi-annual report to governor, S 17); Fla. A 4, S 27; Illinois A 5, S 20. An account shall be kept by the officers of |