KANSAS. 21 States, shall exercise the office of governor, except as herein provided. Sec. 14. In the case of death, impeachment, resignation, removal, or other disability of the governor, the lientenant-governor shall exercise the duties of the office of governor, until another governor shall be duly qualified ; but in such case another governor shall be chosen at the next annual election for members of the general assembly, unless such death, resignation, impeachment, removal, or other disability shall occur within three calendar months immediately preceding such next annual election; in which case a governor shall be chosen at the second succeeding annual election for members of the general assembly; and in case of the death, impeachment, resignation, removal, or other disability of the lieutenant-governor, the president of the senate pro tem. shall exercise the office of governor until a governor shall be duly qualified as aforesaid. Sec. 15. The lieutenant-governor shall be president of the senate, but shall vote only when the senate is equally divided, and shall be entitled to the same pay as the speaker of the house of representatives ; and in case of his death, impeachment, resignation, removal from office, or when he shall exercise the office of governor, the senate shall choose a president pro tem. Sec. 16. Should the office of secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, or attorney general, become vacant for any of the causes specified in the fourteenth and fifteenth sections, the governor shall fill the vacancy or vacancies until the disability is removed, or a successor is elected and qualified. Every such vacancy shall be filled by election at the first general election that occurs more than thirty days after such vacancy shall have occurred, and the person chosen shall hold the office for the full term fixed in the second section of this article. Sec. 17. The officers mentioned in this article shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law, which shall be neither increased nor diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected. Sec. 18. The officers of the executive department and'of the public State institutions shall, at least ten days preceding each regular session of the general assembly, severally report to the governor, who shall transmit the same to the general assembly. Sec. 19. Every bill which shall have passed both houses shall be presented to the governor. If he approve, he shall sign the same ; but if he shall not approve, he shall return it, with his objections, to the house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon the journals, and proceed to reconsider the same. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other house, by which likewise it shall be reconsidered, and, if approved by two- thirds of that house, it shall be a law. But in such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journals of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within five days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be a law, in like manner as if ho had
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