the President is hereby declared to have the same powers of revocation and removal. removal, etc., execute the ernor during the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death, In case of death, removal, resignation or necessary absence of the Governor of the secretary to the said Territory, the Secretary thereof shall be, and he is powers of Gorhereby authorized and required to execute all the powers, and vacancy. perform all the duties of the Governor, during the vacancy occasioned by the removal, resignation, or necessary absence of the said Governor. AN ACT RESPECTING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES, NORTH- IN CONGRESS, MAY 8, 1792. S., p. 266, ch. 42. ritory north-west to be printed, etc. sets of the Laws SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the laws of the Territory 1 Story's Lawa U. north-west of the Ohio, that have been, or hereafter may be, Laws of the Ter enacted by the Governor and Judges thereof, shall be printed, of the River Onio under the direction of the Secretary of State, and two hundred 200 copies an1 10 copies thereof, together with ten sets of the laws of the United of the United States, shall be delivered to the said Governor and Judges, to livered, etc. be distributed among the inhabitants for their information, and that a like number of the laws of the United States shall be delivered to the Governor and Judges of the Territory south-west of the River Ohio. States to be de Judges of the Ter of the Ohio au SEC. 2. That the Governor and Judges of the Territory Governor and north-west of the River Ohio, shall be, and hereby are, thorized to repeal their laws, by them made, whensoever same may be found to be improper. SEC. 3. That the official duties of the Secretaries of the Territories shall be under the control of such laws as are, may be in force in the said Territories. aul- ritory north-west the thorize I to repeal their laws, etc. said Official duties of Secretaries, un order the control of Territorial laws. of One Supreme or Superior Judge SEC. 4. That any one of the Supreme or Superior Judges the said Territories, in the absence of the other judges, shall my hold court in be, and hereby is authorized to hold a court. the absence of the others. State to provide SEC. 5. That the Secretary of State provide proper seals for The Secretary of the several and respective public offices in the said Territories. seals for the Ter ritorial offices. passed by the Judges disap The limitation act SEC. 6. That the limitation act, passed by the Governor and Governor and Judges of the said Territory, the twenty-eighth day of Decemproved. ber, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, be, and hereby is disapproved. [The seventh section of the above act contains only a special provision.] city into a separate county when it has attained a population. of twenty thousand inhabitants, without reference to geographical extent, when a majority of the electors of a county in which such city may be situated, voting thereon, shall be in favor of a separate organization. SEC. 3. In each organized county there shall be a Sheriff, a County officers. County Clerk, a County Treasurer, a Register of Deeds and a Prosecuting Attorney, chosen by the electors thereof, once in two years, and as often as vacancies shall happen, whose duties and powers shall be prescribed by law. The Board of Supervisors in any county may unite the offices of County Clerk and Register of Deeds in one office, or disconnect the same. seat. SEC. 4. The Sheriff, County Clerk, County Treasurer, Judge Offices at county of Probate and Register of Deeds, shall hold their offices at the county seat. other office. . SEC. 5. The Sheriff shall hold no other office, and shall be Sheriff to hold no incapable of holding the office of Sheriff longer than four in any period of six years. He may be required by law to re- To give security. new his security from time to time, and in default of giving such security, his office shall be deemed vacant. The county shall never be responsible for his acts. visors. SEC. 6. A Board of Supervisors, consisting of one from each Board of Superorganized township, shall be established in each county, with such powers as shall be prescribed by law. resented in SEC. 7. Cities shall have such representation in the Board Cities to be rep of Supervisors of the counties in which they are situated, as Board the Legislature may direct. how removed SEC. 8. No county seat once established shall be removed County seats; until the place to which it is proposed to be removed shall be designated by two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors of the county, and a majority of the electors voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the proposed location, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. visors may borhighways, etc. SEC. 9. The Board of Supervisors of any county may bor- Board of Superrow or raise by tax one thousand dollars, for constructing or row money for repairing public buildings, highways or bridges; but no greater sum shall be borrowed or raised by tax for such purpose in any one year, unless authorized by a majority of the electors of such county voting thereon. against counties. SEC. 10. The Board of Supervisors, or in the county of To adjust c'aims Wayne the Board of County Auditors, shall have the exclusive power to prescribe and fix the compensation for all services rendered for, and to adjust all claims against their respective 3 Mich. Rep. 475. Counties; and the sum so fixed or defined shall be subject to no appeal. Board of Supervisors to provide for laying out highways, etc. Township offi cera. Townships to be bodies corporate. Impeachments. How tried. 3 Cowen, 686. House to elect three members to prosecute. SEC. 11. The Board of Supervisors of each organized county may provide for laying out highways, constructing bridges and organizing townships, under such restrictions and limitations as shall be prescribed by law. ARTICLE XI. TOWNSHIPS. SECTION 1. There shall be elected annually, on the first Monday of April, in each organized township, one Supervisor, one Township Clerk, who shall be ex-officio School Inspector, one Commissioner of Highways, one Township Treasurer, one School Inspector, not exceeding four Constables, and one Overseer of Highways for each highway district, whose powers and duties shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 2. Each organized township shall be a body corporate, with such powers and immunities as shall be prescribed by law. All suits and proceedings by or against a township shall be in the name thereof. ARTICLE XII. IMPEACHMENTS AND REMOVALS FROM OFFICE. SECTION 1. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching civil officers for corrupt conduct in office, or for crimes and misdemeanors; but a majority of the members elected shall be necessary to direct an impeachment. SEC. 2. Every impeachment shall be tried by the Senate. When the Governor or Lieutenant Governor is tried, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside. When an impeachment is directed, the Senate shall take an oath or affirmation truly and impartially to try and determine the same according to the evidence. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected. Judgment, in case of impeachment, shall not extend further than removal from office; but the party convicted shall be liable to punishment according to law. SEC. 3. When an impeachment is directed, the House of Representatives shall elect from their own body three members, whose duty it shall be to prosecute such impeachment. No impeachment shall be tried until the final adjournment of the Legislature, when the Senate shall proceed to try the same. SEC. 4. No judicial officer shall exercise his office, after an Impeachment of impeachment is directed, until he is acquitted. judicial officer. filled. SEC. 5. The Governor may make a provisional appointment Vacancy; how to a vacancy occasioned by the suspension of an officer, until he shall be acquitted, or until after the election and qualification of a successor. Judge. SEC. 6. For reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient Removal ground for the impeachment of a Judge, the Governor shall remove him on a concurrent resolution of two-thirds of the. members elected to each House of the Legislature; but the cause for which such removal is required shall be stated at length in such resolution. tain officers. of SEC. 7. The Legislature shall provide by law for the removal Removal of cer of any officer elected by a county, township, or school district, in such manner and for such cause as to them shall seem just SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall Education. have the general supervision of public instruction, and his duties shall be prescribed by law. SEC. 2. The proceeds from the sales of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to the School Fund. State, for educational purposes, and the proceeds of all lands or other property given by individuals, or appropriated by the State for like purposes, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest and income of which, together with the rents of all such lands as may remain unsold, shall be inviolably appropriated and annually applied to the specific objects of the original gift, grant or appropriation. SEC. 3. All lands, the titles to which shall fail from a defect Escheats." of heirs, shall escheat to the State; and the interest on the clear proceeds from the sales thereof, shall be appropriated exclusively to the support of primary schools. SEC. 4. The Legislature shall, within five years from the Free Schools. adoption of this Constitution, provide for and establish a system of primary schools, whereby a school shall be kept without charge for tuition, at least three months in each year, in every school district in the State; and all instruction in said schools shall be conducted in the English language. SEC. 5. A school shall be maintained in each school district District Schools, at least three months in each year. Any school district neglect |