this State shall consist of a comptroller and
a treasurer."
'' Sec. 2. The comptroller shall be chosen by
the qualified electors of the State at each re-
gular election for members of the general as-
sembly. He shall hold his office for two
years, commencing on the second Wednesday
in January next ensuing his election, and
shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five
hundred dollars, but shall not be allowed,
nor shall he receive any fees, commissions,
or perquisites of any kind, in addition there-
to, for the performance of any official duty
or service. He shall keep his office at the
seat of government, and shall take such oath
and enter into such bond for the faithful per-
formance of his duty as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed by law. A vacancy
in the office of comptroller shall be filled by
the governor for the residue of the term.
The first election for comptroller under this
constitution shall be held on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in the month
of November, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, but the comptroller
then elected shall not enter upon the dis-
charge of the duties of his office until
the expiration of the term of the present
incumbent, unless the said office shall sooner
become vacant."
Under the recommendation of the commit-
tee of revision to divide the first section of
this article, the second section will become
the third. It relates exclusively to the duties
of the comptroller, and no change in it is pro-
posed.
The fourth section is a new one, though in
substance it is the same as that part of the
original first section, which relates to the
treasurer It reads thus :
"Section 4. The treasurer shall beelected,
on joint ballot, by the two houses of the gen-
eral assembly, at each regular session thereof.
He shall hold his office for two years, and
shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five
hundred dollars, but shall not be allowed,
nor shall he receive any fees, commissions or
perquisites of any kind in addition thereto,
for the performance of any official duty or
service. He shall keep his office at the seat of
governments and shall lake such oath, and
enter into such bond for the faithful discharge
of his duty as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law. A vacancy in the office of
the treasurer shall he filled by the governor
for the residue of the term. The general as-
sembly, at its first session after the adoption
of this constitution, shall elect a treasurer,
but the treasurer then elected, shall not enter
upon the discharge of the duties of his office,
until the expiration of the term of the present
incumbent, unless the said office shall sooner
become vacant."
The third section of this article, as it stood
when referred to the committee of revision
will) under the new arrangement of sections, |
become the fifth section, and the fourth will
become the sixth.
The committee having no further recom-
mendations to make, close their report on the
treasury department.
GEORGE EARLE,. Chairman.
All the recommendations of the committee
set forth in the above report, on being read,
were considered and adopted by the con-
vention.
PUBLICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
The PRESIDENT, in accordance with an or-
der of the convention adopted on Tuesday
last, announced the following members as the
committee to contract for the printing of the
constitution for general distribution :
Messrs. STOCKBRIDGE, RIDGELY, and STIR-
LING.
Mr. STOCKBRIDGE. I desire to make one re-
quest of the members of the convention. The
convention has ordered the printing of 50,000
copies of the constitution in the English lan-
guage, and 10,000 copies in the German. On
behalf of the committee just announced by the
president, I would request members to notify
the committee what number of copies in the
German language they will desire, and what
number in the English language.
SENATOR BATES, OF DELAWARE.
Mr. CHAMBERS. I have had my attention
called to some remarks made by the gentle-
man from Worcester (Mr. Purnell) and which
will be found on page 794 of the journal of
debates. That gentleman during the course
of his remarks asserted that Mr. Cabell, of
Georgia, Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, and Mr.
Bates, of Delaware, were ministers. I stated
at the time that Mr. Bates was a lawyer. 1
knew his history fair enough to know that he
was a school-master, had studied medicine
and become a doctor, and afterwards had
studied law and become a lawyer. I notice
by the printed dehates that in answer to my
suggestion that Mr. Bates was a lawyer, the
gentleman from Worcester (Mr. Purnell) re-
plied—"and a minister, too, for I have
heard him preach often." I understand from
a gentleman who is a friend of Mr. Bates, that
this is a mistake; that Mr. Bates never was a
minister of any church. At the request of
that gentleman I suggest to the gentleman
from Worcester the propriety of correcting
this statement of fact. He may have beard
Mr. Bates declaim in a sort of meeting.
Mr. PURNELL. Perhaps I may have been
unfortunate in my discrimination between a
minister and a lawyer. I am not a member of
the church to which Mr. Bates belonged. He,
1 believe, was a very worthy member of the
Methodist church. It is very true I have
often heard him exhort. Now I cannot dis-
criminate between preaching and exhorting ;
it may have been a lecture. Nevertheless, it |
