Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-07-03
SENATE JOINT RE0LUTl0N,
Proposing an Amend. snent 10 See.
tiOns Three and Five, Article
Four, of the Constitution, Iies
organizing The Judiciary Of the
Stale.

Be IL ResoEced By TIE General iSsenlbly of
the State Of Ohio, (three-fifths OF all the MEM
0ers elected to each house cOncurring thert.
M. That proposition TO amend the COnSti-
tuition OF the State of Ohio be submitted 10
the electors OF the State, on the second Tues
day OF October, A. ID. 1879, as follows, to
wit: That sections and of article 4, enti-
tied judicial, be amended so as to be and
read as follows:
SECTION 8. The State shall be divided into
nine common pleas districts, nf which the
county of Hamilton shall constitute one,
which districts shall be of compact territory,
bounded by county lines, and said districts,
other than said county o. Hamilton, shall,
without division of counties, be further divi-
ded into sub ubdivisiOns, in each of which, in
said county of Hamilton, there shall he elect
ed by the electors thereof, respectively, at
least one judge of the court of common pleas
for the district, and residing therein. Courts
of common pleas shall be heldoy one or more
of these judges in every county of the dis
trlct, as 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
SEQ D. In each district there shall be elrc e,l.
by the electors at large of such distric:, one
judge OF the district court, by whom the Ills
trict courts in such district shall be held and
he shall receive such compensation as my I've
provided by law. District courts shall bc he'll
in each county at least once every year. The
General Assembly may increase The number
of district court judges to three, in any dis
trict or districts, and may provide for having
a judge pro teMpOre, to hold any court when
ever necessary by reason of the failure, dis
qualification, absence, or sickness of any
judge, and the amount of pay allowed Judge
fa-o hx AaIr tIa
of any judge whose default causes the neces-
sity of having the pro tempore judge. The
times of holding common pleas and district
courts shall be fixed by law, but the General
Assembly may authorize the judges of SAID
courts, respectively, to fix the times of the
holding of said courts.
At said election the voters desiring to vote
in favor of this amendment, shall have placed
upon their ballots the words, judicial con-
stitutioual amendment, Yes" and the voters
who do not favor the adoption of said amend
ment, may have placed upoe their ballots the
words, Judicial constitutional amendment,
No." and if majority of all the votes cast at
said election be 10 favor of said amendment,
then said sections three ard five herein speci-
fed, shall be and constitute tue sections 80
numbered in the said judicial article of tie
Constitution of the State Of Ohio: and said
OIlSiud ScCIlOuS tnitO duu Hft Shall De Ic-
pealed.
JAMES E. NEAL,
Speaker of the House of Representative
JABEZ W. FITCH,
President of the Senate.
Adopted April 10, 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIo,l
Office of the Secretary of State.
/, Milton Barnes, Secretary of State of the
State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the
foregoing is a true copy of joint resolution
passed by the General Assembly of tine State
of Ohio, on the 10th day of April, A. d. 1879,
taken from the original rolls filed in this office
In testimony whereof, have here
unto subscribed my name and alike
[sEALI my official seal, at Columbus, the 1lth
day of April, A. d. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
Zap IA 6m Secretary of State.