ARTICLE XV.
MISCELLANEOUS.

SECTION 1. Every person holding any office created by,
or existing under the Constitution or laws of the State (ex-
cept 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
coming 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 pay-
ment 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 re-
turned yearly to the Comptroller of the State for his inspec-
tion, 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 sec-
tion ; 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 compensation for the dis-
charge of his duties, and for the expenses 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, 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 sub-
ject 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 Constitution 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 of his official duties, except
in cases specially provided in this Constitution.

SEC. 2. The several courts existing in this State at the
time of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until super-
seded under its provisions, continue with like powers and
jurisdiction, and in the exercise thereof, both at law and in
equity, in all respects, as if this Constitution had not been
adopted; and when said courts shall be so superseded, all
causes then depending in said courts shall pass into the
jurisdiction of the several courts, by which they may be re-
spectively superseded.