The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-08-02

elected TO each house concurring therein), That |
State OF Ohio be submitted TO the electors of |
the State, on the second Tuesday of October, A. |
ID. 1877 as follows to wit:
That sections one, three, HUe sir, eight, ti0elUe
Jourteen. 0teea, sfrteen and eighteen, OF article
section seven, of article four, and sections
pealed:
ARTICLE ".
SEC. /. The Judicial power Of the state shall
be vested In Supreme Court, in District Courts,
Courts OF Common Pleas, Justices of the Peace
and such other Courts inferior TO the Supreme
Court, in one or more counties, as the General
Assembly may from time 10 time establish.
The Superior Courts of Cincinnati and Mont
goinery counties, shall continue until otherwise
SEC. 3. The Court of Common Pleas shall be
holden by one Judge, who shall be elected by
the voters OF the District, and said Court shall
be open at all times for the transaction of busi-
county now existing or hereafter formed, shall
constitute separate Common Pleas District,
and each District shall be known by the name
of the county compri ing the District.
SEC. 8: Each District Court shall consist of
one Judge, WHO shall be elected by the voters
of the district. There shall be elected one or
more Judges in each district, and there shall be
held annually, not less than three sessions IN
divide the State into District Court districts,
not exceeding twenty ~ number, and shall as
district, the number OF Judges required TO dis
pose OF the business therein. Each district
shall be com posed OF com pact territory, bound
ed by county lines, and as nearly equal i'm pop
uiation rs practicable. concurrence OF three
fiuhs only of all the members elected 10 both
Houses, shall be required tor the first appor-
lionment, or 10 determine the number OF
Judges required in each District Court and
Common Pleas district, under this amendment,
but no change shall thereafter be- made without
the concurrence OF two-thirds of aIl the MEM
beTs elected to both Houses.
Sections Twelve and thirteen OF article eleven
are hereby repealed; the repeal TO take effect
when the Legislature makes the apportion-
mtnt mentioned In this secrion.
SEC 6; The District Court shall have like
and such appellate or other jurisdiction as may
be provided by law.
SEC. 8. The General Assembly may provide
by law for a Judge pro tenpore, to hold any
court when the Judge thereof is disqualified by
sickness or otherwise to hold said court.
SEC. IL. The judges OF the districts and Of the
Courts of Common Pleas. shall, while In office,
reside in the district in which they are elected,
and their term OF office shall be five years; but
the Legislature may provide by law that any
Judge of the Common Pleas Court shall hold
and that any Judge of the District Court shall
hold that court in any other district for that
court than the one I'm which he resides; and
Judges of the Common Pleas may tenn porarily
exchange districts with each other; and two or
more Common Pleas Courts may be held at the
same time in the same district. and two or
more District Courts may be held at the same
time in a district of that court.
SEC. IA. The Judges of the Supreme Court,
the District Courts, and the Court Of Common
Pleas shall, at stated times. receive for their
services such compensation az may be provid-
ed by law, which shall not be increased or di-
minished during their term Of Office, but they
any other Office of trust or prnfit under the au-
thority of any state, or OF the United States.
All votes for either OF them for any elective
office, except judicial Office, under the au-
thority of this State given by the General As
SEC. Is. The General Assembly may increase
or diminish the number Of the Judges of the
OF the District Courts, the number of Judges In
any Common Pleas or District Court district,
change any district Court district, establish
othei courts, abolish the Probate Court in any
county, or any other Court established by law,
whenever two-thirds OF the members elected TO
each House shall concur therein; but no such
change shall yacate the Office OF any Judge. The
Court OF Common Pleas provided for in this
amendment shall be the successor of the pres
ent Probate Court and Courts OF Common Pleas
In each county. The District Courts herein
ent District Courts; and all the books, records,
papers and business, in or appertaining to said
Courts shall be transferred To their successors
under this amendment; the existing Probate
Court Is hereby abolished in each county at the
close Of the term for which the Judge thereof
was elected nrst occurring after the election OF
Common Pleas Pudges under this amendment,
and the Cerks in the Courts of Common Pleas
and District Courts, shall be the clerks in the
courts herein provided until their successors
are elected and qualified but the Supreme
Court shall appoint It's own reporter.
SEC. l6 There shall be elected in each county
by the electors thereof, one Clerk of the Court
OF Common Pleas, who shall hold his office for
the term OF three years, and until his successor
shall be elected and qdalified. He shall, by
virtue of his office, be clerk of all other cour
bly, may provide, by law, for the election of a
clerk with ike term OF office, for each or any
other of the courts OF record, or for the appoint
ment by the Supreme Court of a Clerk for that
Court.
SEC. 49, The several Judges of the Supreme
Court OF the District and Common Pleas, and
of such other courts as may be created, shall
jurisdiction at chambers, or otherwise as may
be directed by law.
The term OF office OF all Judges of Common
Pleas aud Distiict Courts provided for in this
amendment, shall commence on the first Mon
day IN January next after the making OF the
article four, and the term OF Office of all Judges
of the Courts OF Common Pleas, in office. who
were N ot elected as Judges under this amend
mrnt, shall then expire.
No change shall be made by this amendment
OF any Judge thereof. The first election OF
Judges OF Common Pleas and district Courts
under this amendment, shall be held az the
next after the making OF said apportionment
for District Court districts 10y the Legislature,
but nothing In this amendment shall b@ con-
strued To change or alter the Constitution or
laws until said apporionment. Section seven
OF Article four Is hereby repealed, ana section
twenty-five shall be numbered section seven.
FORM OF BALLOT.
At said election. the voters desiring to vote in
have placed upon their ballots the words
"Judiclal Constitutional Amendment-Yes;''
said amendments, shall have placed upon their
ballots the words, "Judicial Constitutional
Amendment-No."
Adopted March Q, 1877.
President of the Senate.
d. j. HODGE,
Speaker pro tenn. House Of Representatives.
a THE STATE OF OHIO,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
i, Milton Barnes, Secretary OF State of the
State of ohio, do hereby certify that the forego-
ing is a true copy OF an act therein named;
| Ohio, on the 9th day of April, A. d. 1877, taken
from the riginal robson ale in this OF ofiice.o
| In Witness Whereof. have heTeunto sub
scribed my name, and affixed the
| lsEAL.I Seal of this Office at Columbus, the