COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
	ties or assistants that the General Assembly	prosecute or defend any suit or action in
	may prescribe by law.	any of said Courts, on the part of the State,
		which the General Assembly, or the Gover-
		nor, acting according to law, shall direct to
		be commenced, prosecuted or defended, and
		he shall have and perform such other duties
		and shall appoint such number of deputies
		or assistants as the General Assembly may
		from time to time by law prescribe: ....
	Section 4.18. Qualifications.	Art. V, sec. 4. No person shall be
	The attorney general shall have been &	eligible to the office of Attorney General,
	qualified voter in the State and have been	who is not a citizen of this State, and a
	authorized to practice law in the State for at	qualified voter therein, and has not resided
	least five years immediately preceding his	and practiced Law in this State for at least
	election or appointment.	ten years.
		ATTORNEY GENERAL AND
		STATE'S ATTORNEYS.
		Attorney General.
	Section 4.19. Election.	Section 1. There shall be an Attorney
	The attorney general shall be elected by	General elected by the qualified voters of
	the voters of the State for a term beginning	the State, on general ticket, on the Tuesday
	on the first Wednesday in January following	next after the first Monday in the month of
	his election and ending on the first Wednes-	November, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight,
	day in January in the fourth year thereafter,	and on the same day, in every fourth year
	and shall serve until his successor has quali-	thereafter, who shall hold his office for four
	fied. If the first Wednesday in January is a	years from the time of his election and
	legal holiday the term shall begin on the	qualification, and until his successor is
	next day. If the office becomes vacant the	elected and qualified, and shall be re-eligible
	governor shall appoint, with the advice and	thereto, and shall be subject to removal for
	consent of the Senate, a person to the office	incompetency, willful neglect of duty or
	for the remainder of the term.	misdemeanor in office, on conviction in a
		Court of Law.
		Sec. 5. In case of vacancy in the office
		of Attorney General, occasioned by death,
		resignation, removal from the State, or from
		office, or other disqualification, the said
		vacancy shall be filled by the Governor, for
		the residue of the term thus made vacant.
	Comptroller
	Section 4.20. Office of Comptroller.	See Art. VI, Sec. I at Section 4.22 fot
	The comptroller shall grant, under regula-	election of Comptroller.
	tions prescribed by the General Assembly by law, all warrants for money to be paid out of the treasury of the State pursuant to ap- propriations by law. He shall also perform other duties relating to the payment of mon- ey of the State as prescribed by law. The comptroller shall not be the head of the	Art. VI, sec. 1. ... The Comptroller and the Treasurer shall keep their offices at the seat of government, and shall take such oath, and enter into such bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by
	finance department or of any other principal	Law.
	department of the executive branch. The	Sec. 2. The Comptroller shall have the
	comptroller shall give such bond for the	general superintendence of the fiscal affairs
	faithful performance of his duties as may be	of the State; he shall digest and prepare
	prescribed by law.	plans for the improvement and management

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