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General Assembly, and a Proper Apportionment of Repre-
sentatives in the Same.
Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following order :
Ordered, That the Committee on Public Works and Cor-
porations be requested to inquire into the expediency of
levying a tax upon the receipts of all corporations trans-
acting business in this State which are incorporated in other
States, tlte proceeds of such tax to be appropriated to the
use of the public schools, or such other use as the Conven-
tion may decide;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following order :
Ordered, That the Committee upon the Executive Depart-
ment be requested to consider the propriety of incorporating
a provision in the Constitution precluding all preachers of
the Gospel and teachers of religious creeds or denominations
from holding any office within the appointing power of the
Executive;
Which was adopted.
Mr. Stoddert, Chairman of the Committee upon the Execu-
tive Department, submitted the following
REPORT:
Section 1. The Executive power of the State shall be vested
in a Governor whose term of office shall commence on the
second Wednesday of January next ensuing his election, and
continue for four years, and until his successor shall have
qualified, but the Governor chosen at the first election under
this Constitution shall not enter upon the discharge of the
duties of the office until the expiration of the term for which
the present incumbent was elected, unless the said office shall
become vacant by death, resignation, removal from the State,
or other disqualification of the said incumbent.
Sec. 2. An election for Governor under this Constitution
shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and
on the same day and month in every fourth year thereafter,
at the place of voting for Delegates to the General Assembly,
and every person qualified to vote for Delegates shall be
qualified and entitled to vote for Governor; the election to
be held in the same manner as tke election of Delegates, and
the returns thereof under seal, to be addressed to the Speak-
er of the House of Delegates, and enclosed and transmitted
to the Secretary of State, and delivered to said Speaker at the
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