The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-12-09

elected to the Office Of Auditor General or
State Treasurer shall be capable of holding
the same Office for two consecutive terms
SKbg 90. hPhe present Great Seal . of
Pennsylvania shall boathe seal of the State.
All commissions shall be in the name and
by authority of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, aud Be sealed with the State
seal and signed by the Governor. naiigii1 g
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! ssom ynn The Judiciary. oiqqe g , g7ifn
SEcT1oN1 The judicial power of this
Commonwealth shall be vested in Su-
preme Court, in courts of Common Pleas,
courts of Oyer and Terminer and General
Jail Delivery, courts of Quarter Sessions of
the Peace, Orphans Courts, Magistrates
Courts, and in such other courts as the Gen.
eral Assembly may from time to time es-
tablish.
SEC. 2. The Supreme Court shall con-
sist of seven judges, who shall be elected
by the qualified electors of the State at
large. They shall hold their offices for the
term of twenty-one years, IL they so long
behave themselves we'll, but shall not be
again eligible The judge whose commits
mission shall first expire shall be chief JUS
tice, and thereafter each judge whose COM
mission shall first expire shall in turn be
chief justice. thAoo hin1
Sec. 3. The jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court shall extend over the State, and the
! judges thereof shall, by virtue of their
offices, be Justices of Oyer and Terminer
and General Jail Delivery in the several
counties they shall have original ,iurisdic-
tion in cases of injunction where a corpor-
alton is party defendant of habeds corpus,
of mandamus courts of inferior jurisdic-
ton, and of quo loGrrdnto as to all officers
| of the Commonwealth whose jurisdiction
extends over the State, but shall not exer-
else any other original jurisdiction; they
shall have appellate jurisdiction by appeal,
certiorari or writ of error in all cases, as is
now or may hereafter be provided by law.
Sec A. Until otherwise directed by law,
the courts of Common Pleas shall continue
as at present established, except as herein
changed no more than four counties shall,
at any time, be included in one Judicial dis
trict organized for said courts.
Sec. 8. Whenever county shall con-
tain forty thousand inhabitants it shall
constitute separate judicial district, and
shall elect one Judge learned in the law
and the General Assembly shall provide for
additional judges, as the business of the
said districts may require. Counties con-
tanning population less than sufficient to
constitute separate districts shall be form
ed into convenient single districts, or, if
necessary, may be attached to contiguous
districts as the General Assembly may pro-
vide. The office of associate judge, not
learned in the law, is abolished in counties
forming separate districts but the several
associate judges in Office when this Consti-
tuition shall be adopted shall serve their un-
expired terms.
SEC. @. In the counties of Philadelphia
and Allegheny all the jurisdiction and
powers now vested in the District courts
and courts of Common Pleas, subject to
such changes as may be made by this Con-
stitution or by law shall be in Philadelphia
vested in four, and in Allegheny in two, dis
distinct and separate courts of equal and
coordinate jurisdiction, composed of three
judges each the said courts in Philadel-
phia shall be designated respectively as the
court of Common Pleas number one, num-
number two, number three and number
four, and in Allegheny as the court Of Com
mon Please number one and number two,
but the number of said courts may be by
law increased, from time to time, and shall
be in like manner designated by successive
numbers /; the number of judges in any ol
said courts, or in any county where the
establishment of an additional court may
be authorized by law, may be increased
from time to time, and whenever such in
crease shall amount in the whole to three,
such three judges shall compose distinct
and separate court as aforesaid, which shall
be numbered as aforesaid. In Philadelphia
. all suits shall be instituted in the said
courts of Common Pleas without designat.
ing the number of said court, and the sew
eral courts shall distribute and apportion
the business among them in such manner
as shall be provided by rules of court, and
each court to which any suit shall be thus
| aac ha1 hauo
, thereof, subject to change of venue, as
shall be provided by law. In Allegheny
each court shall have exclusive jurisdiction
, Of all proceedings at law and in equity
! commenced therein, subject to change o
: venue as may be provided by law. -
p Sec. Z. For Philadelphia there shall bt
, one prothonotary's office, and one prothon
/ tary for all said courts to be appointed by
i the judges of said courts, and to hold offic'
for three years, subject to removal by :
r majority Of the said judges the said pro
thonotary shall appoint such assistants al
may be necessary and authorized by sais
T courts and he and his assistants shall re
: | ceive fixed salaries to be determined b,
: law and paid by said county all fees col
! lected in said Office, except such as may b.
by law due to the Commonwealth, shall b
r paid by the prothonotary into the count,
!, treasury. Each court shall have its sepa
a rate dockets except the Judgment docke
= which shall contain the Judgments am
: liens of all the said courts, as Is or may b
directed by law. t5a tlnilnad adi fo.d.t
i Sec. s. The said courts in the countie
of Philadelphia and Allegheny, respective
! ly, shall, from time to time, in turn deta
! one or more of their judges to hold til
i courts Of Oyer and Terminer and the court
IS Of Quarter Sessions of the Peace Of sal
counties, and in such manner as may be di