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So the order was adopted.
Mr. Stephenson submitted the following order:
Which was twice read and adopted.
Ordered, That the committe appointed "to consider and report
respecting the appointment, tenure of office, duties and compen
sation of all civil officers," inquire into the expediency of making
public defaulters ineligible to a seat in either House of the GeneraL
Assembly, and to any office of trust or profit under this State,
until they shall have accounted for, and paid over to the proper
authorities all money for which they may be liable.
Mr. Gwinn, submitted the following order:
Which was twice read and adopted.
Ordered, That the committee on Corporations, and the Public
Debt, inquire into the expediency of restricting the Legislature of
the State from granting any act of incorporation to any association
or company for the purpose of Banking or Insurance,—for the
making and preservation of turnpike roads,—for the advancement
of literature and science, or for benevolent purposes,—and of
framing a general law under which all such associations or com
panies may be enrolled, and thus become entitled to the privileges
of bodies corporate, according to the terms which the said act
shall prescribe; and into the expediency of prohibiting the Legis
lature from afterwards enlarging the powers of any company or
association so incorporated, or from anywise interfering with the
rights and privileges so established, excepi by some general law
applicable to all associations and companies so incorporated; and
as to the limits proper to be imposed upon the Legislature in con
tributing in the name of the State, by way of gift or donation
any sum or sums of money by way of loan or otherwise, to such
association companies so becoming incorpor ated.
On motion of Mr. Carter, it was
Ordered, That standing committee No. 14, inquire into the ex
pediency of engrafting upon the constitution an article prohibiting
the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate in cases where the an
nual rents of said real estate, are sufficient to liquidate the debt in
seven years.
Mr Lee, submitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That the committee to consider and report respecting
the Elective Franchise, inquire into the expediency of imposing a
capitation tax qualification on each elector.
Which was twice read,
On the question being put, "will the Convention adopt said
order?" it was
Determined in the negative.
Mr. Randall, submitted the following order:
Which was twice read and adopted.
Ordered, That the committee on the Judiciary inquire into the
expediency of reporting a plan for the appointment of the Judges
by a college of electors, to consist of the Senators and Delegates