Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1


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Document 18

Georgia Constitution of 1777, ART. 19

Thorpe 2:781

Art. XIX. The governor shall, with the advice of the executive council, exercise the executive powers of government, according to the laws of this State and the constitution thereof, save only in the case of pardons and remission of fines, which he shall in no instance grant; but he may reprieve a criminal, or suspend a fine, until the meeting of the assembly, who may determine therein as they shall judge fit.


The Founders' Constitution
Volume 4, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1, Document 18
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a2_2_1s18.html
The University of Chicago Press

Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1909.