Where there is no messenger or where the duty cannot be performed by the person acting as messenger, the Governor, if necessary, may employ some person, for a reasonable compensation, to perform any service which is the duty of a messenger.
(Orig. Code 1863, § 122; Code 1868, § 117; Code 1873, § 126; Code 1882, § 126; Civil Code 1895, § 146; Civil Code 1910, § 169; Code 1933, § 40-309.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Governor, § 5.
C.J.S.- 67 C.J.S., Officers, § 198. 81A C.J.S., States, § 240.