The Text

That all officers other than those who, by this Constitution, are directed to be otherwise appointed, shall be appointed in the manner following, to wit: The assembly shall, once in every year, openly nominate and appoint one of the senators from each great district, which senators shall form a council for the appointment of the said officers, of which the governor for the time being, or the lieutenant governor, or the president of the senate (when they shall respectively administer the government), shall be president, and have a casting voice, but no other vote, and, with the advice and consent of the said council, shall appoint all of the said officers; and that a majority of the said council be a quorum; AND FURTHER, The said senators shall not be eligible to the said council for two years successively.