The Government Class Book Part 38

--5. Name some of the committees.

--6. What are _standing_ committees? _Select_ committees?

--7. How do committees discharge their duties?

--8. Wherein does the utility of committees appear?

--9. What is a bill?

--10. By whom, and how, are bills introduced?

--11. How often must a bill be read? When is it amended?

--12. After the second reading and amendment, what follows?

--13. Describe the proceedings on the final pa.s.sage of a bill.

--14. How is it acted on in the other house?

--15. Why is a legislature divided into two branches?

--16. Why are bills submitted to the governor for his approval? Define _veto_.

--17. What if a governor refuses to sign a bill? Are bills presented to the governor in this state? If so, and he disapproves them, by what majorities must they be again pa.s.sed? Within how many days is he to return bills in this state?

Chapter XII.

--1. For what terms are governors chosen? For what term in this state?

--2. What are the qualifications for governor in this state?

--3. What are his general powers and duties?

--4. In what cases has he power to grant reprieves and pardons? Define these words. What is _commute_?

--5. Are any officers in this state appointed by the governor? Is there a council?

--6. What are the duties of a lieutenant-governor? Is there one in this state?

--7. When he acts as governor, who takes the chair of the senate?

Chapter XIII.

--1. What a.s.sistant executive officers are there in this state? Are they appointed or elected?

--2. What are the duties of the secretary of state?

--3. Of an auditor or controller?

--4. Of a treasurer?

--5. Of what officers are sureties required?

--6. What are the duties of an attorney-general? Is there one in this state?

--7. The duties of surveyor-general? Is there one in this state?

--8. A superintendent of schools?

--9. What is the business of state printer?

--10. What other state officers are there?

Chapter XIV.

--1. For what reasons is a state divided into counties and townships?

--2. How large are townships?

--3. From what comes the name of _county_? Of _shire_, and _sheriff_?

--4. Define _corporation_. What powers have town and county corporations?

--5. In what officers are these powers vested? In whom in this state?

--6. What are the duties of a county treasurer?

--7. Of a register or recorder? Where are deeds, &c., recorded in this state?

--8. What are a sheriff's duties?

--9. What is the business of a coroner?

--10. Are there state's attorneys in the counties of this state?

--11. Is there a county surveyor?

--12. Are county officers elected by the people in this state?