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Mr. Duvall submitted the following amendment:

Sec. 8. Amend by striking out "not inconsistent with this
Constitution, " in the 2nd line,

Decided in the negative.

Mr. Stockbridge submitted the following amendment:

Insert as an additional section the following:

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Sec. 10. T t shall be the duty of the Governor immediately
after the adoption of this Constitution, to appoint two "Com-
missioners of Revision, " whose duty it shall be to prepare
and present to the General Assembly at its first session there-
after, drafts of all bills which the General Assembly are re-
quired by this Constitution to pass, or which may be neces-
sary to carry into effect its provisions.

The Commissioners of Revision shall also proceed with all
reasonable dispatch, to revise the Code of the State, embody-
ing in it all existing laws not now incorporated there!n, omit-
ting all superfluous words and enactments, and all such as
have ceased to affect existing rights, condensing the whole
into as concise a form as is consistent with a full and clear
expression of the law, and suggesting any errors or omissions
which may be found to exist therein, and the best mode of
rectifying the same.

They shall report the Code so revised, to the General As-
sembly for its approval, and while the bills so prepared, and
the Code so revised by them, shall be under consideration,
shall be entitled to seats upon the floor of the Senate or House
of Delegates, and to take pari, in the discussions thereof, but
without the right of voting thereon.

On motion of Mr. Schley,
The subject was divided.

The question being on the first branch of the amendment,
to wit:

Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the Governor immediately
after the adoption of this Constitution, to appoint two "Com-
missioners of Revision, " whose duty it shall be to prepare
and present to the General Assembly at its first session there-
after, drafts of all bills which the General Assembly are re-
quired by this Constitution to pass, or which may be neces-
sary to carry into effect its provisions.

Mr. Stockbridge demanded the yeas and nays;
The demand being sustained,