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by the gen^l. assembly for the contingencies of gov^t.
Accounting to them for the same, he may also with the
advise of the [counsel?] of State lay embargoes, or prohibit
exportation for a time, he may grant pardons & reprieves
Under particular limitations in Short all powers attached
to the office are expressed and no powers afforded him of
acting in opposition the laws by the request of either or
both houses of the Legislature. The 11th sec. of the constitution
declares the solemnity to be observed in enacting laws, that all
bills shall be read three times by each house before the [present?]
laws, and be signed by the speaker of both houses - a law
having been once enacted, must be the guide of those within the
purview of its meaning, untill [sic] repealed by the same or some coor
=dinate or superior power, now this is a maxim old as
the [licence?], were it otherwise there would exist no stability
in Ligislative [sic] bodies, the labours of time would be destroyed in a
moment, and the inpetuous resolutions of some [?]
demagogue would anihilate the best established principles
of right,- to remove the office of Armstrong [thru? thou?] this resolution
is an infraction of the Laws of North Carolina, and to
remove it out of this State is to anihilate it, as the change
of hands thro. which it would pass must destroy the faith of
words it contains, which hold their authority from the impos
=ibility there is of altering them, but which impossibility ceases
[throu?] the touch of many hands- again a resolution is an infi
rior subordinate expression of the legislatures will, and always
used for the direction of the officers of government, when such
chasms present themselves in the legal code; as without