The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-11-20

INSTRUCTION Snall exercise all tne powers
and perform all the duties of the Superin-
tendent of Common Schools, subject to
such changes rs shall be made by law.
Sec 81. The term of the Secretary of
Internal 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 be capable of holding
the same office for two consecutive terms.
Sec %. The present Great Seal of Penn
sylvania shall be the seal of the State.
All commissions shall be in the name and
by the authority of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and be sealed with the State
seal and ssgned by the Governor.
ARTICLE V.
THE JUDICIARY.
SECTION l. The judicial power of
this Commonwealth shall be vested in
the Supreme Court, in courts Of common
pleas, courts Of oyer terminer and gen.
eral Jail delivery, courts of quarter ses-
sions Of the peace, orphans courts,
magistrates courts, and in such other
courts as the General Assembly may
from time to time establish
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, if they so
long behave themselves well, but shall
not be again eligible. The judge whose
commission shall first expire shall be
chief justice, and thereafter each judge
whose commission shall first expire shall
in turn be chief justice.
Sec g. The Jurisdiction Of the Su-
preme 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
jurisdiction in cases OF injunction, and
where a corporation Is a party defend.
ant, of Eabeas corpus, Of MANDAMUs to
courts of inferior jurisdiction; and Of
QUO wARRANTo as to all officers of the
Commonwealth whose jurisdiction ex-
tends over the State, but shall not ex-
ereise any other original jurisdiction;
they shall have appellate jurisdiction by
appeal, cARTloRARI or writ OF error in
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 established, ex-
cept as herein changed; not more than
four counties shall, at any time, be in-
cluded in one judicial district organized
for said courts.
Sec 5 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 district may require. Counties
containing a population less than is
sufficient to constitute separate districts
shall be formed into convenient single
district or, if necessary, may be at
sached to contiguous districts as the
General Assembly may provide. The
Office Of associate judge, not learned in
the law, is abolished in counties forming
separate districts; but the several asso,
ciate judges in Office when this consti-
tuition shall be adopted shall serve for
their unexpired terms.
SEC In the counties of Philadelphia
and Allegheny, all the jurisdiction and
powers now vested in the District Courts
and Courts oil Common Pleas, subject to
such changes as may be made by this
constitution or by law, shall be in Phil
adelphia vested in four, and in Ale
gheny in two distinct and separate courts
Of equal and coordinate jurisdiction,
composed Of three judges each; the said
courts of Philadelphia shall be desg-
mated respectively as the Court of Com
mon Pleas number one, number two,
number three and number four, and in
Allegheny as the Court OF Common Pleas
number one and number two, but the
number of said courts may be by law
increased, from time to time, and shall
be in Ike manner designated by success
sive numbers; the number of judges in
any of 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; ard when
ever such increase 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 Com
mon Pleas, without designating the num-
Der Of said court, and the several courts
shall distribute and apportion the busi-
ness among them in such manner as
shall be provided by rules of court, and
each court to which any suit shall be
thus assigned shall have exclusive juris-
diction thereof, subject to change of
venue, as shall be provided by law. In
Allegheny each court shall have exclu-
siye Jurisdiction of all proceedings at law
and in equity commenced therein, sub
ject to change of venue as may be pro-
vided by law.
Sec 7 For Philadelphia there shall
be one Prothonotary's office, and one
Prothonotary for all said courts, to be
appointed by the judges of said courts,
and to bold Office for three years, sub
jeet to removal by majority of the said
judges; the said Prothonotary shall ap-
point such assistants as may be necessary
and authorized by said courts, and he