Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-04-03

The Fortieth District of the county O
Indiana.
The Foyty-tirst District of the countier
of Juniata and Perry.
The Forty-second District Of the count,
Of Adams.
The Forty third District of the counties
of Carbon and Monroe.
SEC 2. That the qualified electors of the
county Of Luzerne, constituting the Ele-
venth District, and the county of Lancas-
ter, constituting the Second District, the
counties of Dauphin and Lebanon, consti-
tutips the Twelfth District, the counties of
Lawrence and Butler, constituting the Sc.
yenteenth District, the counties of Clear
| field, Clinton and Centre, constituting the
Twenty-ffth District, and the counties of
Columbia, Montour, Wyoming and sus.-
van, constituting the Twenty-sixth dis
trict shall, at the next general election, in
the manner prescribed bv le- aDr the eiec-
ton of presidnr-- judges, elect one person
for each Of said districts learned in the law
to sesye as an additional Judge of the seve.
ssst courts in each of said Districts and
and the qualified electors of any county
constituting separate judicial district,
where, under the Constitution or laws of
this Commonwealth, an additional law
judges or judges learned in the law have
heretofore been elected or Commissioned,
shall, upon the expiration of The term of
Office of such additional law judge or addi-
tional law judge or judges LEARNED in the
law, in the manner provided for fle elec-
ton of president judge of said distric, elect
successor or successors in Office for such
district. Said additional judges shall Dos
sess the same qualifications which are re-
quired by the Constitution and laws br
president judge, and shall be commission
ed by the Governor, and hold their offices
by the same tenure as other judges of re-
cord required to be learned in the law.
The said additional judges shall have the
same power, authority and Jurisdiction in
the several courts of their said districts re-
spectively, and be subject to the same du-
ties, provisions and penalties as the presi-
dent judges thereof, and receive the same
compensation for their services, to be paid
out of the State Treasury in quarterly pay
ments, in the same manner as the salaries
of president judges are now paid. That
the said additional judges shall have the
same power and authority to hold special
and adjourned courts, in their own and
other districts, as president judges have
by existing laws.
SEC. 3. That the additional law Judge
herein provided for the Second judicial
district is in the place of and successor to
the additional law jndge provided for and
now serving under the provisions of ~
act, approved hn-'"0u'y-n'th day OF
Mich, one thousand eight hundred and
slxty-four, providing for an additional law
judge for said district; and the additional
law judge hereinbefore provided for the
Twelfth district shall reside in the county
of Lebanon.
SEC. 4. That the election for Judge shall
be held and conducted in the several elec-
tiou districts in the same manner in ali re-
spects as elections for Representatives are
or shall be held and conducted, and by the
same Judges, inspectors and other officers
under the provisions of existing laws regu-
latins elections in this Commonwealth.
SIC. 5. The duplicate returns Of ali the
votes given in each county for judges of
the Supreme Court, and all judges which
the qualified electors of such county are en-
titled to elect of themselves, unconnected
with any other county or district, shall be
made out by the prothonOtary Of the court
of common pleas Of such county, under
direction of said court, at their meeting to
receive and compute the returns of the pre-
ceding election, agreeable to the provisions
of the thirteenth section of the act entitled
4 further supplement TO the act regulating
elections in this Commonwealth, approved
January thirtieth, one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-four, one of which returns
shall be fled and entered of record in the
Office of the prothonotary of such court, and
the other return such prothonotary shall
enclose in a sealed envelope and direct and
Immediately mail to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
SEC. q That in case of the election of
president judge or additional law judge in
any judicial district, composed of two or
more counties, on the day of the sitting Of
the court, or other person authorized by
law to receive and compute returns in each
Of such counties, the prothonotary of the
court opens, and in their presence shall
make out return of all the votes which
shall be given at sucb election, within the
county, for every person voted for as such
president or additional law judge, which
shall be properly attested by the seal of
said court, and the said court or persons
receiving and computing said returns shall
thereupon appoint one Of the judges of cleo
ton in said county to take charge of such
returns, and produced the same 1T meet
ing of the judges SO appointed in each nf
the counties composing said district, Which
meeting shall be held on the seventh day
after the election, at the court house OF one
of the counties. TO be ascertnined, taking
said counties alternately in alphabetical
order.
SEC. : That the return judges from the
several counties, as aforesaid, having SO
met, shall cast up the several county re-
turns and shall make three copies of a gen.
eral return of all the votes cast in the dis
trict for such Office, each of which they
shall certify, one of which they shall lodge
in the office of the prothOnotary OF the
county in which they so meet, another OF
which they shall enclose, seal and direct to
the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and
the third they shall deliver to the person
appearing from such general return to have
received the largest number Of votes cast.
Sec. 8. The Governor is hereby autho-
rized to nominate, and with the advice and
consent Of the Senate to appoint all presid-
ent and additional law judges authorized
and raorired nv this act except in the