Section 1. Every person holding any
office created by or existing under the
Constitution or laws of the State, the
entire amount of whose pay or compen-
sation received for the discharge of his
official duties shall exceed the yearly sum
of three thousand dollars, except wherein
otherwise provided by this Constitution,
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 per-
formance 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, and each
of the said officers, when the amount
received by him for the year shall exceed
three thousand dollars, shall yearly pay
over to the Treasurer of the State, the
amount of such excess by him received,
subject to such disposition thereof, as
the General Assembly may direct; any
such officer failing to comply with this
requisition, shall be deemed to have
vacated his office and be subject to suit
by the State for the amount that ought
to be paid into the Treasury.
Sec. 2. The several Courts, except as
herein otherwise provided, shall continue
with like powers and jurisdiction, both
at law and in equity, as if this Consti-
tution had not been adopted, and until
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the organization of the Judicial Depart-
ment provided by this Constitution.
Sec. 3. If at any election directed by
this Constitution, any two or more can-
didates shall have the highest and an
equal number of votes, a new election
shall be ordered, except in cases specially
provided for by this Constitution.
Sec. 4. In the trial of all criminal
cases, the jury shall be the judges of law
as well as fact.
Sec. 5. The trial by jury of all issues
of fact in civil proceedings in the several
courts of law in this State, where the
amount in controversy exceeds the sum
of five dollars, shall be inviolably pre-
served.
Sec. 6. All officers, civil and military,
now holding office, whether by election
or appointment under the State, shall
continue to hold and exercise their
offices, according to their present tenure,
unless otherwise provided in this Con-
stitution, until they shall be superseded
pursuant to its provisions, and until
their successors be duly qualified, and
the compensation of such officers which
has been increased by this Constitution,
shall take effect from the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five.
Sec. 7. General elections shall be held
throughout the State on the Tuesday
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