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Constitution Of The State Of Arkansas Of 1874.

Amend. 6. Executive Department and Officers (Const., Art. 6, § 1, Amended and Sections Added).

§ 1. Executive department.

§ 2. Executive power vested in Governor and Lieutenant Governor.

§ 3. Election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor.

§ 4. Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor.

§ 5. Qualifications and duties of Lieutenant Governor - Succession to the governorship.

§ 6. Salary of Lieutenant Governor.

Publisher's Notes. The enacting clause of the resolution proposing this amendment read: "That section No. 17 of article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas be amended to read as follows:


"Executive Department

"Section 1. To amend section 1 of article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Arkansas to read as follows: * * *."

The amendment then proceeds to amend Art. 6, § 1, and to add five additional sections.

This amendment was submitted by the legislature (See Acts 1913, p. 1527) and voted upon at the general election, September 14, 1914, with returns as follows: for, 46,567; against, 45,206. It was declared to be in force in Combs v. Gray, 170 Ark. 956, 281 S.W. 918 (1926). See also Brickhouse v. Hill, 167 Ark. 513, 268 S.W. 865 (1925).

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