ce to be computed by
the nearest line or route of public travel. The compensation of the
presiding officers of the two Houses shall be six dollars per day and
mileage. Should an extra session of the General Assembly be called, the
members and presiding officers shall receive a like rate of compensation
for a period not exceeding twenty days.

ARTICLE III.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

[Sidenote: Officers of the Executive Department.]

[Sidenote: Terms of office.]

SECTION 1. The Executive Department shall consist of a Governor, in whom
shall be vested the supreme executive power of the State, a
Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary of State, an Auditor, a Treasurer, a
Superintendent of Public Instruction, and an Attorney-General, who shall
be elected for a term of four years by the qualified electors of the
State, at the same time and places and in the same manner as members of
the General Assembly are elected. Their term of office shall commence on
the first day of January next after their election, and continue until
their successors are elected and qualified: _Provided_, that the
officers first elected shall assume the duties of their office ten days
after the approval of this Constitution by the Congress of the United
States, and shall hold their offices four years from and after the first
day of January.

[Sidenote: Qualifications of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.]

SEC. 2. No person shall be eligible as Governor or Lieutenant-Governor
unless he shall have attained the age of thirty years, shall have been a
citizen of the United States five years, and shall have been a resident
of this State for two years next before the election; nor shall the
person elected to either of these two offices be eligible to the same
office more than four years in any term of eight years, unless the
office shall have been cast upon him as Lieutenant-Governor or President
of the Senate.

[Sidenote: Returns of elections.]

SEC. 3. The return of every election for officers of the Executive
Department shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government
by the returning officers, directed to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, who shall open and publish the same in the presence of
a majority of the members of both Houses of the General Assembly. The
person having the highest number of votes respectively shall be declared
duly elected; but if two or more be equal and highest in votes for the
same office, one of them s