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the voters of this State, and shall have no effect unless the
same shall have been adopted by a majority of the voters
voting thereon.

ARTICLE XV.

MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1. Every, person holding any office created by,
or existing under the Constitution, or Laws of the State,
(except Justices of the Peace, Constables and Coroners, ) or
holding any appointment under any Court of this State,
whose pay or compensation is derived from fees, or moneys
corning into his hands for the discharge of his official duties
or in any way growing out of or connected with his office,
shall keep a book, in which shall be entered every sum or
sums of money received by him, or on his account, as a
payment or compensation for his performance of official
duties, a copy of which entries in said book, verified by the
oath of the officer by whom it is directed to be kept, shall
be returned yearly to the Comptroller of the State, for his
inspection, and that of the General Assembly of the State,
to which the Comptroller shall, at each regular session
thereof, make a report showing what officers have complied
with this section; and each of the said officers, when the
amount received by him for the year shall exceed the sum
which he is by Law entitled to retain as his salary or com-
pensation for the discharge of his duties, and for the expen-
ses of his office, shall yearly pay over to the Treasurer of the
State the amount of such excess, subject to such disposition
thereof as the General Assembly may direct; if any of such
officers shall fail to comply with the requisitions of this
section for the period of thirty days after the expiration of
each and every year of his office, such officer shall be
deemed to have vacated his office, and the Governor shall
declare the same vacant, and the vacancy therein shall be
filled as in case of vacancy for any other cause, and such
officer shall be subject to suit by the State for the amount
that ought to be paid into the treasury; and no person
holding any office created by or existing under this Consti-
tution or Laws of the State, or holding any appointment
under any Court in this State, shall receive more than three
thousand dollars a year as a compensation for the discharge