The said Commissioner shall sit as judge of the Land Office,
and receive therefor the sum of hundred dollars
per annum, to be paid out of the State Treasury. He shall also
perform the duties of the Register of the Land Office, and be
entitled to receive therefor the fees now chargeable in said office;
and he shall also perform the duties of Examiner General, and
be entitled to receive therefor the fees now chargeable by said office.
The office of Register of the Land office and Examiner Gener
a! shall be abolished from and after the election and qualification
of the commissioner of the Land office.
All offices, by Executive appointment, for the weighing,
gauging, measuring, culling or inspecting any merchandise, pro
duce, manufacture or commodity whatever, except Tobacco, Live
Stock, Hay and Straw, shall be abolished after the first day of
January next; and no such office shall thereafter be created by
law; but nothing herein 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 purchases, or of sup
plying the people with correct standards of weights and measures,
or shall prevent the creation of any office for such purposes hereaf
ter. And it shall be the duty of the Legislature at its first session
under this constitution, and from time to time thereafter, to pass
such laws as may be deemed necessary or expedient, for licensing
persons to weigh, guage, measure, cull or inspect any merchan
dize, produce, manufacture or commodity whatever; except To
bacco, Live Stock, Hay and Straw."
The Convention then resumed the consideration of the order
of the day, being the report submitted by Mr. Bowie, chairman of
the committee on the Judiciary.
The question pending before the Convention on yesterday, be
ing on the amendment offered by Mr. Crisfield, to the 9th section
of said report;