The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-05

retary of the Commonwealth, and give notice
days after such adjournment.
SEC. 10. The Governor shall have power TO
ing appropriations of money, embracing dis
tinct items. and the part or parts of thc bill APP
proved snail oe the law, and the item or items
of appropriation disapproved shall he void, un-
less repassed according TO the rules and limita-
Z uohS prescribed Tor the passage of other bills
over the executive veto.
SEC. L. The Chief Justice OF the Supreme
Court shall preside upou the trial of any
/ tested election of Governor or Lieutenant Gov
ernor. and shall decide questions regarding
o. the admissibility of evidence, and shall, uDOn
request of the committee, pronounce his oDin-
ion upon other questions of law involved i'm
the trial. The Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor shall exercise the duties of their respect
I've Offices until their successors shall be duly
! SIC. 10 The Secretary o. the Commonwealth
. shall keep record of all official acts and pro-
ceedings Of the Governor, and when required
lay the same. with all papers, minutes and
OF the General Assembly, and perform such
other duties as may be eujoned upon him by
/ Law,
SEC. 10. The Secretary of Internal Affairs
st all exercise all the powers and perform all
the duties of the Surveyor General. subject
such changes as shall be made by law. His de-
partment shall EN- brace a bureau of Industrial
. statistics, and he shall discharge such duties
/ relating to corporations, TO the charitable in
stftutions, the agricultural. manufacturing,
mining, mineral, timber, and other material or
business interests of the State may he pre-
. other times may be required by law, make
I report to the General Assembly
! SEC. 20. The Superintendent of Public In
structiOn shall exercise all the powers ana per-
form all the duties of The Superintendent of
Common Schools, subject to such changes as
shall be made by law.
. SEC 21-The term of the Secretary of Inter
i nal Affairs shall be four years, of the Auditor
General three years, and of the State Treasurer
two years. These officers shall be chosen by
the qualified electors OF the State at general
elections. No person elected to the Office OF
Auditor General or State Treasurer shall he
capable Of holding the same office for two con-
sEc. q. The present Great Seal OF Pennsy1-
! Vania shall he the seal of the State.
! All commissions shall he in the name and by
MIA, and be sealed with the State seal and sign
ed by the Governor.
ARTICLE V.
! THE JUDICIARY.
/ SECTION l. The judicial power of this Com
monwealth shall be vested IN the Supreme
. oyer and termiEer and general Jail delivery,
courts of quarter sessions of the peace. orphans
courts, magistTates' courts and in such other
courts as the General Assembly may from time
to time establish.
. SEC. 2 The Supreme Court shall consist of
seven judges, who shall be elected by he quail
ificd electors of the State at large They shall
hold their offices for the term of twenty-one
years, if they so long behave themselves wei,
. but shall not be again eligible. The judge whose
. commission shall first expire shall he chic. jus
tice, and thereafter each judge whose cuUnIis-
sion shall first expire shall in turn be chief JUS
tice.
sEC.3 The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
. shall extend over the State, and the judges
thereof shall, by virtue of their Offices. lac iue-
O. tices of oyer and termincr and general jail do
livery in the several counties; they shall have
original jurisdiction in cases of injunction, and
where corporation is party defendant. OF
rior jurisdiction and of QUO wARRANTO as 10
! all officers of the COmmOnw wealth whose iuris-
dictiOn extends over the State, hut shall not
{ exercise any other original jurisdiction they
shall have appellate jurisdiction by appeal
CERTIoRARI writ of error III all cases, as is
now or may hereafter be provided by law.
SEC. 4. Until otherwise directed by law. the
courts of common pleas shall continue as at
present esTHulShed. except Is herein changed :.
not more than four counties SHALL at any time
Re included in one judicial district organized
for said courts.
! SEC. 5 WLencvera county shall contain forty
. thousand inha bitants it shall constitute sepG-
3 rate judicial district, and shall elect one Judge
learned in the law; aud the General Assembly
shall provide for additional judges, as the bus
iness of the said districts may require. COun-
( ties containing population less than is sutii-
cient to constitute separate districts shall be
formed into convenient single districts. or, if
. necessary, may be attached to contiguous dis
tricts as the General Assembly may provide.
The Office of associate judge, not learned in the
law, is abolished in counties forming separate
office when this Constitution shall be adopted
shall serve for their unexpired terms.
Allegheny, all the jurisdiction and powers now
vested in the District Courts and Courts of
Common Pleas. subject TO such changes as may
he made by this constitution ar by law, shall be
in Philadelphia vested in four, and in Alleghe-
ny i'm two distinct and separate courts of equal
and coordinate jurisdiction, composed of three
Judges each ; the said courts in Philadelphia
shall he designated respectively rs the Court of
3 Common Pleas number one, NUN Ber TWO, num-
bpr three and number four. and Allegheny
as the Court OF Common Fit.iis nu m Der one and
number two, but the number of said courts
may be hy law iucI eaSed, from time TO time,
and shall he in like manner designated by sue
cesSive numbers the number of Judges in any
OF said courts. or in any county where the
. Enlistment of an additional court may oe
thOriZed by law. may be increased from time
to time; ana whenever such increase shall
amount in the whole to three. such three judy
, eS shall compose distinct and separate court
aforesaid which shall be numbered ashore
, said. In Philadelphia all suits shall be ustitu-
ted in tho said Courts of Common Pleas. with
out designating the number of said Court, and
the several courts shall distribute and appOr-
81. tion the business among them in such manner
as shall he provided hy rules of court and each
4 court to which any suit shall be thus assigned
D shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, SUD-
by law In Aneghen- each court shall have
. exclusive jurisdiction of all proceedings at law
and in equity commenced therein. subject to
! change Of venue as may lie provided by law.
/ SEC. Z. For Philadelphia there shall be one
for all said courts, to be appointed by the
judges of said courts and to hold office for three
said judges; the said Prothonotary shall ap-
! point such assistants as may be necessary and
sistants shall receive fixed salaries to be deter
1 mined by law and paid 10y said county; all fccs
collected in said Office, except suCn as may l'e
by law,due TO the Commonwealth shall he paid
. ty the Prothonotary into the county treasury
Each court shall have its separate docket, which
shall contain the judgments and liens OF all the
{ said courts as is or may he directed ny law.
, SEC s The said courts in the counties of Phil
adt.Iphia and Allegheny respectively shall, from
lime to time, in turn, detail one or more of
: their Judges TO hold She courts of Oyer and
/ Termin9r and the courts of Quarter Sessions OF
the Peace of said counties in such manner as
may be directed by law.
! SEC. q. Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas
learned in the law shall be judges Of the courts
/ of Oyer and Termner. Quarter Sessions of the
Peace, and General Jail Delivery, and of the
! Orphans Court, and within their respective
districts shall Se justices of the peace as to
{ criminal matters.
; SEC. 10. The Judges of the courts Of Common
Pleas, within their respective couGtieS, shall
! have power to issue writs of CERTIORI to jus
! tices of the peace and other interiOrcouris not
/ of ord, and to cause their proceeding to be
/ br ought before them and right anu justice to
! be done.
! SEC. II. Except as otherwise provided in this
/ Constitution Justices of the peace or aldermen
shall be elected in the several wards DISTRICTS
I borouchs and townships at the time of the cleo
ton of cons.b!ce by The qualified elec."rs there
of in such manner ~ shall be directed by law, and
shall be commissioned by the tf1vernot for term
of five years No township, ward, district or bor-
. ougb shall elect more than tao justices of the
peace OF. aldermen without "coHsen, Of major