CO129-535-4 N.I. Brewer- petition for pardon 28-5-1931 - 24-10-1931 — Page 34

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Governor not to purchase lands.

Appointments to be provisional and

during pleasure.

Suspension of Officers.

to be made thereout as he may think necessary for roads or other public purposes. The Governor shall not, directly or indirectly, purchase for himself any of such lands without Our special permission given through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State.

XXXII. All Commissions to be granted by the Governor to any person or persons for exercising any office or employment shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be granted during pleasure only; and whenever the Governor shall appoint to any vacant office or employment, of which the initial emoluments exceed one thousand dollars or one hundred pounds sterling a year, according as the said emoluments are fixed with reference to dollars or to pounds sterling as the case may be, any person not by Us specially directed to be appointed thereto, he shall, at the same time, expressly apprise such person. that such appointment is to be considered only as temporary and provisional until Our allowance or disallowance thereof be signified.

XXXIII. Before suspending from the exercise of his office any public officer whose annual pen- sionable emoluments exceed one thousand dollars or one hundred pounds sterling, according as the said emoluments are fixed with reference to dollars or to pounds sterling, as the case may be, the Governor shall signify to such officer, by a statement in writing, the grounds of the intended suspension, and shall call upon him to state in writing the grounds upon which he desires to exculpate himself, and if the officer does not furnish such statement within the time fixed by the Governor, or fails to exculpate himself to the satisfaction of the Governor, the Governor shall appoint a Committee of the Executive Council to investigate the charges made and to make a full report to the Executive Council.

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