shall be submitted to 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 (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 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 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
officer shall be deemed to have vacated his office and the Gov-
ernor 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 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of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until superseded under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