The executive powers fliall be exer- cifed by a Governor^ who fliall be chofen by joint ballot of both houfts of afTembly, and when chofen fhall remain in office five years, and be ineligible a fecond time. During his term he fhall hold no other office or emolument under this ftate, or any other ftate or power whatfoever. By executive powers, w^e mean no reference to thofe powers exercifed under our [ 4H ] former government by the crown as of its prerogative, nor that thefe Ihall be the ftandard of what may or may not be deemed the rightful powers of the governor. We give him thofe powers only, which are neceflary to execute the laws (and admi- nifter the government) and which are not in their nature either legiflative or judi- ciary. The application of this idea mufl be left to reafon. We do however ex- pressly deny him the prerogative powers of ere^Sing courts, offices, boroughs, corpo- rations, fairs, markets, ports, beacons, light- houfes, and fea-marks; of laying embar- goes, of efliablifliing precedence, of retaining within the ftate, or recalling to it any citizen thereof, and of making denizens, ex- cept fo far as he may be authorifed from time to time by the legiflature to exercife any of those powers. The power of declaring war and concluding peace, of contracting alli- ances, of ifTuing letters of marque and repri- fal, of raifing and introducing armed forces, of building armed veflels, forts, or ftrong holds, of coining money or regulating its value, of regulating weights and meafures, [ 4^5 3 we leave to be exercifed under the authority of the confederation: but, in all cafes re- ipefting them which are out of the said confederation, they fliall be exercifed by the governor, under the regulation of such laws as the legislature may think it expe- dient to pass.
Todo el ejército del Estado, ya sea regular o de milicia, estará sujeto a sus órdenes; pero dejará la ejecución de dichas órdenes a los oficiales generales nombrados por la legislatura.
Su salario será fijado por el legif- latura en la fefión de la afamblea en la cual él fca nombrado, y antes de que dicho nombramiento sea hecho; o si