Civil Government for Common Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 59 pages of information about Civil Government for Common Schools.

Civil Government for Common Schools eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 59 pages of information about Civil Government for Common Schools.

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,

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 convened 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: 

Elected by the People of the State
     Executive
         Governor. 
     Presiding Officer
         Lieut.  Governor. 
     Administrative
         Secretary of State. 
         Comptroller. 
         Treasurer. 
         Attorney General. 
         State Engineer and Surveyor. 
     Judicial
         Judges of the Court of Appeals.

Appointed by Governor and Senate. 
     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.

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