The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-12-11
by ACT OF LEGISLATURE
And Report Number of Employees
Necessary to Properly Con-
duct Business.
NEW DUTIES IMPOSED ON COMMITTEE
First Meeting Held in This City Yesterday. A.
ter Making Investigation Of Employees
and Their Pay Recommendations
Are TO be Submitted.

| The Legislative Examining Committee
which met in this city yesterday will in
vestigate the expense of the last General
Assembly, the number of employees ne
cessary to conduct the business of the
Legislature and report their recommen-
dations to the next General Assembly.
This duty was imposed on the commit
tee by the last General Assembly in an
act passed a few days prior to the al
journment.
When the committee met here yester-
day the members thought that they were
only required to pass upon the accounts
of the Auditor and the Treasurer Sena-
tor E. " Webb called attention to the
act of the General Assembly imposing the
new duties upon them.
Not only must the committee examine
in detail the expense of the General AS
sembly but also the number of employees
necessary to properly conduct the bust
ness of the Assembly and the
pay of each. full report is required
! to be made to the next Legislature with
such recommendations as the committee
thinks necessary.
In this same bill the Legislature abol-
ished the office of Enrolling Clerk and
placed the matter of enrolling bills in
the hands of the Secretary of State, who
is authorized to employ an assistant for
the purpose.
The committee will go to work with the
examination of the books of the Treas
urer and Auditor and the new duties will
be taken up after this is finished. The
act of the Legislature above referred to,
Chapter 631 is given herewith:
Section /. That the office of Enrolling
Clerk of the General Assembly is hereby
abolished.
Section 2. That all bills passed by the
General Assembly shall be enrolled for
ratification under the supervision and di
rection of the Secretary of State. The
Secretary of State may appoint an as
sstant to supervise the enrolment of
all bills and resolutions, which assistant
shall be paid $500 bi-ennially for his SER
vices and said assistant shall have poS
er, with the approval of the Secretary of
State, to employ all such copyists as may
be needed in enrolling said bills and res
olutions, who shall be paid not exceeding
ten cents for each copy sheet.
Section 8. That the committee of the
General Assembly appointed next after
the ratification of this act to examine the
books and accounts of the State Treasur-
er shall examine in detail the expense of
the General Assembly and the number of
employees necessary to properly conduct
the business of the General Assembly,
and the pay of each and to make full re-
port thereof with such recommendations
as they think necessary to. the next ses-
sion of the General Assembly.
Section A. This act shall be in force
from and after May 1, 1901.
The Investigating committee met yes
terday morning in the office of State
Treasurer Lacy and again in the after
noon. The members of this committee
are as follows: Senators Allen X. Smith,
of Johnston, and E. Y. Webb, of Cleve-
land on the part of the Senate, and Rep
resentatives Harry w. Stubs, of Martin;
a. D. Watts, of Iredell, and Z. o. Mastin,
of Wilkes, on the part of the House.