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670 be in session, he shall transmit to the House in which the bill originated a copy of the item or items thereof disapproved, together with his objections thereto, and the items objected to shall be separately reconsidered, and each item shall then take the same course as is prescribed for the passage of bills over the Executive veto.

Section 13.In case of the death, impeachment, or conviction of felony, or infamous misdemeanor, failure to qualify, resignation, absence from the State, or other disability of the Governor, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office, for the residue of the term, or until the disability be removed, shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor.

Section 14.The Lieutenant Governor shall be President of the Senate, and shall vote only when the Senate is equally divided. In case of the absence, impeachment, or disqualification from any cause of the Lieutenant Governor, or when he shall hold the office of Governor, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall perform the duties of the Lieutenant Governor, until the vacancy is filled or the disability removed.

Section 15.In case of the failure to qualify in his office, death, resignation, absence from the State, impeachment, conviction of felony or infamous misdemeanor, or disqualification from any cause, of both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, the duties of the Governor shall devolve on the President of the Senate pro tempore, until such disqualification of either the Governor or Lieutenant Governor be removed, or the vacancy be filled, and if the President of the Senate, for any of the above named causes, shall become incapable of performing the duties of Governor, the same shall devolve upon the Speaker of the House.

Section 16.An account shall be kept by the officers of the Executive Department and of all Public Institutions of the State, of all moneys received by them severally from all sources, and for every service performed, and of all moneys disbursed by them severally, and a semi-annual report thereof shall be made to the Governor, under oath.

Section 17.The officers of the Executive Department and of all Public Institutions of the State, shall, at least twenty days preceding each regular session of the General Assembly, make full and complete report of their actions to the Governor, who shall transmit the same to the General Assembly.

Section 18.There shall be a seal of the State, which shall be kept by the Secretary of State, and shall be called the "Great Seal of the State of Colorado." The seal of the Territory of Colorado, as now used, shall be the seal of the State, until otherwise provided by law.

Section 19.The officers named in section one of this article shall receive for their services a salary to be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their official