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2792. EXECUTIVE, Appointment of.—[continued].

The Executive powers
shall be exercised by a Governor, who shall
be chosen by joint ballot of both houses of
Assembly, and * * * shall remain in
office five years, and be ineligible a second
time.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Washington ed. viii, 446. Ford ed., iii, 325.
(1783)