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Mr. Howison, Chairman of the Committee upon Accounts,
submitted the following
REPORT:
The Committee on Accounts have carefully considered the
question submitted to them by the order of the Convention of
the 19th instant, and respectfully report that the business
of the Standing Committees, excepting the Committee on
Revision and Compilation, and the Committee on Accounts,
does not require the retention of all the Clerks authorized at
the beginning of the session.
The duties devolving upon this class of officers are now
chiefly centered on the Committee on Revision and Compila-
tion; and in order that the clerical work in that Committee
may be kept up promptly, and that there may be no delay
in adjourning when the business of the Convention is com-
pleted, the Committee recommend that the Clerks, except-
ing the one employed by the Committee on Accounts, be re-
quired to report to the Committee on Revision for such du-
ties as may be assigned to them by that Committee. It may
be proper to remark that it is not a part of the duty of the
Clerk of Revision to prepare the enrolled copies of those parts
of the Constitution that have passed the Convention. His
time is fully occupied upon the work of engrossing and in-
dexing.
It is absolutely necessary that the enrolling should be
promptly kept up to avoid delay in adjourning; and the
Committee are of opinion that this end can only be attained
by adopting the recommendation they have made.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R. HOWISON,
Chairman.
Which was read a first time, and
By special order, (two-thirds of all the members present
concurring) a second time, and adopted.
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the un-
finished business of yesterday,
Being the report of the Committee upon the Judiciary De-
partment with pending amendments.
The question recurring upon the amendment submitted
by Mr. Gill,
Pending the consideration of which,
(By unanimous consent), Mr. Gill withdrew his amend-
ment.
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