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558 His whole compensation shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum. The Legislature shall have power to abolish or regulate the said office, except as to the mode of appointment and amount of compensation. In the case of a vacancy happening in said office it shall be filled by the Executive in same manner as vacan cies happening in Executive appointment. 2nd. Of the Register of the Land Office; the Register of the Land Office shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold his office for the term of six years, and his fees of office shall be the same as are now allowed by law. 3rd. The office of Examiner General shall be abolished from and after the first day of January next, after which time the duties of said office shall be performed by the Register of the Land office who shall receive for such services the fees now prescribed by law. 4th. Of County Commissioners; the couaty authorities now known as Levy courts or county commissioners shall hereafter be styled county Commissioners, and shall be elected by general ticket, and not by districts, by the voters of respective counties. Said commissioners shall exercise such powers and duties only as the Legislature may from time to time prescribe—but such powers and duties and the tenure of office shall be uniform throughout the State, and the Legislature shall at or before its second regular session after the adoption of this constitution pass such laws as may be necessary for ascertaining and defining the powers, duties and tenure of office of said commissioners; and until the passage of such laws, the present county authorities shall have and exercise all the powers and duties now exercisel by them under the laws of this State. 5th. The General Assembly may provide by law for the elec tion or appointment of such other county officers as may be re quired, and are not provided for in this constitution, and prescribe their powers and duties, but their tenure of office, their powers and duties and mode of appointment shall be uniform throughout the State. 6th. Of Inspectors, Measurers, &c.; all offices for the weighing, guaging, measuring, culling or inpecting any merchandise, produce, manufacture or commodity, whatever, except Tobacco, are hereby abolished, and no such office shall hereafter be created by law; but nothing in this section contained, shall abrogate any office created for the purpose of protecting the public health, or the interests of the State, in its property, revenue, tolls, or pur chases, or of supplying the people with correct standards of weights and measures, or shall prevent the creation of any office for such purposes hereafter. Which was read. On motion of Mr. Thomas, The Convention then resumed the consideration of the order of |
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Proceedings and Debates of the 1850 Constitutional Convention
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