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1850 Constitutional Convention

Debates of the 1850 Constitutional Convention, page 250:
The Legislature is the grand inquest of the State, and the knowledge of this brings all these officers up to the line of their duty. This is our great security for their promptness and efficiency. To demonstrate this in detail, would, perhaps, be tedious to the Convention, he [the Treasurer?] merely stated it now, as the result of his own observation and experience."

Debates of the 1850 Constitutional Convention, page 262:
With regard to the supervision over the Treasury, and a strict eye upon accounting officers, he must say he had not much faith in the influence of investigating committees, or in the "grand inquest." He asked gentlemen when and where defaulters had been detected and exposed by such committees. Experience taught us differently."

Article III, Section 28 as adopted

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