The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-02
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an amendment to Sections
Three and Five, Article Four, Of the
Constitution, Reorganizing the Ju-
dietary Of the State.

Be ii resoired by the General assembly i
the State Of Ohto, (three htths OF all the
members elected ~ each house coicurring
Ihereinl, That II proposition 10 amend the
Constitution OF the State of Ohio be sub
mItted to The electors oi the State, ON the
Second Tuesday OF Octooer; A. d. 1879, as
follows, tu-wlt 1nat sections ) HhI ol
Article i, entitled u JUDICIAL" be amended
80 as TO read as follows:
SECTION ). The Stale shall be divided
into nine common please districts, o which
the county OF Hamilton shall constitute
one, which district shall be OF compact
territory, bounded by couLiy lines, and
said districts, other tAan said county OF
Hamilton, shall, without division OF coun-
ties, be further divided into sub-div lsions,
in each Uf which, and in said county oi
Hamilton, there shall be elected 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 held by one or
more of these Judges in every county OF
the district, 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.
SEC. S. In each district there shall be
district, one judge OF the district court
by whom the district courts in said district
shall be held, and he shall receive snch
compensation as may be provided by law.
District court shall be held in each coun-
ty at least once in every year. The
General Assembly may increase the num-
Der of district courts to three in any district
or districts, and may provide for having a
udge pro ten, pore, to hold any court when
ever necessary by reason of the failure,
disqualification, absence OF sickness of any
Judge and the amount of pay allowed q
Judge pro tempore may be deducted from
the salary of any judge whose fault causes
the necessity of having the pro tempore
Judge. The times OF, holding the COM
| mon pleas and districts courts ehall be
| fed by law, but the General Assembly may
authorize the judges of said courts, respec
lively, to fix the times of the holding of
sold courts.
At said election the voters desiring to
vote in favor of this amendment, shall
have placed upon their ballots the words
Judicial constitutional amendment. Yes;"
and the voters rho do not favor the adop-
tion of said amendment, may have placed
upon their ballots the words, Judicial
constitutional amendment, No." and il a
majority of all the votes cast at said elec
tion be in favor of said amendment, then
said sections three and i've therein speci.
fed shall be and constitute the sections &C
numbered in the said judicial article Of
Constitution of the State of Ohio, and said
original sections three and FIVE shall be re-
pealed.
JAMES Z. NEAL.
Speaker of House of Representatives
JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate
Adopted April 10, 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONO,
Office of the Secretary of State.
l, Milton Barnes, Secretary of the Stat,
of Ohio, do hereby certify, tha, the for,
going is a true copy of joint resolution
passed by the General Assembly Of tht
State of Ohio, on the 10th day of Apri
A. d. 1879, taken from the original rol
filed in this office
In testimony whereof, l hav,
hereunto subscribed my name ant
(sEAL) )aili red my official seal, at Columbus
the l,h day of April, A ID. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
Secretary of State
ATTORNEYS.
w +. FINCK, ATTORNEY, AT LAW. OF
| w flee, East Main Street, Somerset, Ohio
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