Article XI. An Ordinance Concerning the Election of Governors

An Ordinance Concerning the Election of Governors

Whereas, By the construction which, in practice, has been given to the constitution of the State, the Speaker of the Senate, in case of a vacancy in the office of the Governor, shall exercise the powers of Governor by virtue of his office as Speaker, and without vacating the same, which said office of Speaker must cease and determine with that of the incumbent as a Senator, upon the election of his successor in the next succeeding Senate, and the same construction would apply to the succession of the Speaker of the House of Commons to the exercise of the powers of Governor; and whereas, according to this construction, a vacancy will take place in the office of Governor from and after the day of the next election on the first Thursday in August next, until the first day of January, A. D. 1863, against which it is the duty of this Convention to provide; therefore,