Constitution of the State of Delaware, Adopted in Convention, June 4th, A. D. 1897Press of Mercantile printing Company, 1910 - 80 pages |
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absence appeal appoint Appoquinimink Hundred Article ballot biennial bill Blackbird Hundred Board of Pardons bounded Castle County Castle Hundred central line Chancellor Chief Justice choose Organization Christiana Hundred citizen and inhabitant compensation convene Court of Oyer Creek Hundred District number East Dover Hundred easterly direction Eighth street election district fill such vacancy Hazlettville road Horsehead road House including the central jurisdiction and powers Kent County Lieutenant-Governor line of Eighth members elected members to preside middle Mill Creek Hundred Mispillion Hundred Number Five Number Four Number Six Number Three oath otherwise provided Oyer and Terminer Pencader Hundred person present shall preside public road leading Qualifications registered Representative Districts Senate Senatorial Districts session South Murderkill Hundred straight line including Superior Court Supreme Court Sussex County Term of office thence running thereof torial District town of Harrington tricts unless vote West Dover westerly Whiteleysburg writ of election writ of error yeas and nays
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Page 8 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Page 15 - Section 14. The senators first elected in the evennumbered senate districts, the governor, lieutenant governor and other state officers first elected under this constitution, shall enter upon the...
Page 15 - ... before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: " I do solemnly swear (or affirm...
Page 11 - The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session; but no person rejected by the Senate shall be reappointed to the same office during their ensuing recess.
Page 11 - If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill it shall be sent together with the objections to the other house by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by twothirds of the members elected to that house...
Page 8 - Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting.
Page 11 - If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature shall, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not become a law without the approval of the governor. No bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the legislature, unless approved by the governor within thirty days after such adjournment.
Page 11 - SECTION 1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested in a Supreme Court, in District Courts, in County Courts, and in Justices of the Peace.