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Mr. $mith, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the Treasurer be requested to report to this Con. vention, at his convenience, the amount of the School Fund, how invested, and a brief history of the origin and increase of the fund, and a reference to the several laws authorising its distribu- tion, that he be also requested to report the number of academies participating in the distribution of the public money, since the creation of the fund, and the aggregate number of pupils instruct- ed in each year. Which was twice read and adopted. Mr. Sprigg, submitted the following resolution Resolved, That every free white male citizen of this State above 21 years of age, who shall have been a citizen for 6 months, and an inhabitant of this State one whole year, and for the last six months a resident of the county or the city where he may offer his vote, and none other, shall be entitled to vote in the election district or ward of the county or city, as the case may be, of which he shall have been an actual resident foL and during the last preceding sixty days, for Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, for Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States, for Delegates to the General Assembly, and all civil officers that now are, or may hereafter be, elective by the people, shall be referred to the committee on the Elective Fran- chise when that committee shall be appointed. Which was twice read and adopted. Mr. Schley, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary, consider the proptiety of the following propositions The abolition of the High Court of Chancery; The abolition of the present mode of taking testimony in equity causes, and the substitution of oral testimony to be taken before the Equity Judge who shall hear the particular cause; Of providing inferior tribunals, of uniform jurisdiction; Of exempting a reasonable amount of the property real or personal, or both, of any debtor from seizure or sale, for the pay- ment of any debt or liability hereafter contracted; Of the appointment of one or more commissioners, whose duty it shall be to enquire into, revise and simplify the rules of practice, pleadings, forms and proceedings, and arrange a system adapted to the courts of record of this SLate, and report the same to the Legislature, subject to its modification and adoption. Which was twice read and adopted. On motion of Mr. Chandler, it was Ordered, That the committee on the Judiciary, enquire into the propriety of providing a more speedy mode of collecting debts in the courts of law, and of avoiding the existing delays attend- ant upon proceedings at law. On motion of Mr. Sappington, it was Ordered, That the committee on the Legislature, enquire into the expediency of inserting in the constitution that no supplement |
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