The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-06-12
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an Amendment to Sections
Three and Five, Article Four, Of the
Constitution, ReOrganizing the Ju-
dietary of the State.

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly
the State of Ohio, (three ffths of all the
members elected to each house concurring
therein), That a proposition to amend the
Constitution Of the State of Ohio be sub
mittsd to the electors of the State, on the
Second Tuesday of October; A. D. 1879, as
follows, to wit: That sections and 5 of
of Article 4, entitled Judicial" be amen
ded 30 as to read as follows:
SECTION 3. The State shall be divided
into nine common please districts, of which
the county of Hamilton shall constitute
one, which dirtricts shall be of compact
territory, bounded by county lines, and
said districts, other than said county of
Hamilton, shall, without division of coun.
ties, be further divided into sub-divisions,
in each of which, and in said county of
Hamilton, there shall be elected by the
electors thereof, respectively, at least one
judge of the court of common pleas fox
the district, and residing therein. Courts
OF common pleas shall be held by one or
more of these judges in every county of
the district, rs often as may be provided
| by law, and more than one court or sitting
| thereof may be held at the same time in
each district.
SEC. 5. In each district there shall be
elected, by the electors at large of such
district, one judge of the district court,
by whom the district courts in said dis
trict shall be held, and he shall receive
such compensation as may be provided by
law. District court shall be held in each
county at least once in every year. The
General Assembly may increase the num-
Der Of district court judges to three, in
any district or districts, and may provide
for having judge pro tempore, to hold
any court whenever necessary by reason OF
the failure, disqualification, absence, OF
sickness of any judge and the amount OF
pay allowed judge pro tempore may be
whose default causes the necessity of hav.
ing the pro tempore judge. The times o
holding common pleas and district courts
shall be fixed by law, but the General As
sembly may authorize the judges of sale
courts. respectively, to fix the times of tn,
holding OF said courts.
At said election the voters desiring 4
D vote in favor of this amendment, shall hav,
placed upon their ballots the words, "Ju
dicisl constitutional amendment, Yes;'
and the voters who do not favor the adop
tion Of said amendment, may have Ilacet
upon their ballots the words, "Judicia
q constitutional amendment, No." and If
:. majority Of all the votes cast at said cleo
zion Oe In Invof OF ealo Amenomene, the
y said sections three and five herein specific
b shall be and constitute the sections 9
4 numbered in the said judicial article {
!, Constitution of the State of Ohio, and sal
J original sections three and FIVE shall be r.
= pealed.
q JAMES E. NEAL,
q Speaker Of House of Representative
JABEZ w. FITCH,
q prasident of tho Son al
70 Adopted April 10. 1879.
n UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIO,
Office of the Secretary Of State.
], Milton Barnes, Secretary of the Sta
% of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the for
q going is true copy of a joint resolutio
4 passed by the General Assembly of Il
!. State Of Ohio, on the 10th day Of Apr
= A. ID. 1879, taken from the original rol
b fled In this Office.
8 In testimony whereof, ha'
heSeunto subscribed my name M
y sEAL] affixed my official seal, at ColuI
II bus, the 1th day of April, A. ID. 1879.
/. MILTON BARNES,
n Secretary of State.
Gun.