The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-07-26
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
Relative to an Amendment of Articles Four
and Eleven of the Constitution, Reorgan-
izing the Judiciary of the State of Ohio.

Be resolved By the General Assembly Of The
state 9 Ohio (three-ffths OF all the members
elected to each house concurring therein), That
proposition 70 amend the Constitution OF the
5tate pa 9 OF ONO; De submitted 70 me electors OF
ID. 1877, as follows, to wit:
That sections one, three, yre, sir, eight ttcelue,
fourteen 9teegl, sf1teen and eighteen, OF article
four, be amended so as TO read as follows, and
section seven, Of article four, and sections
twelve and thirteen of article eleven, be re-
pealed:
ARTICLE Nv.
SEC. l.. 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
The Superior Courts of Cincinnati and Mont
gonery counties, shall continue until otherwise
SEC. 8. Tne Court OF Common Pleas shall be
holden by one Judge, who shall be elected by
be open at all times for the transaction OF busi-
ness, Sundays and holidays excepted. Each
county now existing or hereafter formed, shall
constitute separate Common Pleas District,
| and each District shall be- known by the name
OF the county compr ing the District.
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
each county I'm the State. The Legislat ture shall
divide the State into District Court districts,
not exceeding twenty In number, and shall as
sign 10 each Common Pleas and District Court
district, the number OF Judges required TO dis
shall be com posed of COM pact territory, bound
ed BY county lines, and as nearly equal I'm pop
nlatlon as practicable. A concurrence of three
nuhs only Of all the members elected TO both
Houses, shall be required for the first appor-
iionment, or 10 determine the number OF
Judges required In each District Court and
Common Pleas district, under this amendment,
put no change shall thereafter be made without
bers elected to both Houses.
Sections twelve and thirteen of article eleven
when the Legislature makes the apportion-
ment mentioned in this section.
SEC. =. The District Court shall have like
original jurisdiction with the Supreme Court,
ana snch appellate or other jurisdiction as may
SEC. 8. The General Assembly may provide
by law for Judge pro tempore, to hold any
court when the Judge thereof is disqualified by
SEC. IL. The Judges OF the districts and of the
Courts of Common Pleas. shall, while I'm office,
reside In the district in which they are elected,
and their term OF office shall be nye years; but
me I. Legisiatnre " , may proyide by law that any
that court In any other Common Pleas district;
ana that any Judge of the District Court shall
noid mat court In any other district for that
Judges OF the Common Pleas may temporarily
exchange districts with each other; and two or
more Common Pleas Courts may be held at the
same time I'm the same district. and two or
more District Courts may be held at the same
time in district of that court.
SEC. IA. The Judges of the Supreme Court,
me District Courts, and the Court Of Common
rieas snaIi, at stated times. receive for their
services such compensation as may be provid-
ed by law, which shall not be increased or di-
mlnished during their term of Office, but they
snail receive no fees or perquisites, nor hold
any other Office of trust or profit under the au-
thority OF any State, or Of the United States.
ONCE, except a Judicial ofiice, under the au-
thoriiy OF this State given by the General AS
seim6iy, or the people, shall be void.
SEC. ID. The General Assembly may increase
or diminish the number OF the Judges OF the
supreme Court, the number of the districts,
any Common Pleas or District Court district
change amy district Court district, establish
other 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
I'm each county. The District Courts herein
provided for. shall be the successors of the pres
papers and business, in or appertaIning to said
Courts shall be transferred to their SUCCESSORS
under this amendment; the existing Probate
close OF the term for which the Judge thereof
was elected, first occurring after the election of
and the Cerks in the Courts of Common Pleas
and District Courts, shall be the clerks I'm the
courts herein provided until their successors
are elected and qualified; but the Supreme
Court shall appoint It's own reporter.
/, SEC. 10; There shall be elected In each county
OF Common Pleas, who shall hold his ofice for
the term OF three years, and until his successor
virtue OF his office, be clerk OF all other cour
Of record held therein, but the General Assem-
bly, may provide, by law, for the election of a
other Of the courts of record, for the appoint
ment by the Supreme Court OF Clerk for that
Court.
SEC. Is. The several Judges of the Supreme
Court OF the District and Common Pleas, and
of such other courts as may be created, shall
respectively have and exercise such power and
lurisdlction az chambers, or otherwise, as may
The term OF Office OF all Judges of Common
Pleas and Distilct Courts provided for in this
shall commence on the first Mon
day in January next after the making OF the
appointment provided for I'm section five of
article four, and the term OF Office OF all Judges
OF the Courts OF Common Pleas, in office, who
were not elected as Judges under this amend
ment, 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 at the
next after the making OF said apportionment
for District Court districts by the Legislature,
but nothing In this amendment shalE be- con-
sirued TO change or alter the Constitution or
laws until said apportionment Section seven
Of Article four In hereby repealed, and section
twenty-five shall be numbered section seven.
FORM OF BALLOT.
At said election, the voters desiring 10 vote in
have placed upon their ballots the words,
Judicial Constitutional Amendment--Yes;'
the voters who do not favor the adoption OF
ballots the words, judicial Constitutional
Adopted March Q, 1877.
III. w. CURTIS,
President of the Senate.
%. j. HODGE,
Speaker pro tenn. House of Representatives.
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