Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-04
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION,
Proposing an Amendment to Sec
fiOns Three and Five, Article
Four, of the Constitution, Re.
organizing the Judiciary of the
Stale.

Be it ResOE0ed By tile General assembly OF
t1e State Of Ohio, (three-ffths of all the mem.
bers elected to each house cAncurring there
i'm. That Il proposition 10 amend the COnsti-
tuition of tine State Of Ohio b. submitted 10
the electors Of the Stale, on the second Tue
day of October, y. d. 1879, as follows, TO
wit: Thai sections and Of article 4, eHc.-
tied "Judicial," ne amended So as to be and
read as follows:
SECTION 3. The State shall be divided into
nine common pleas districts, of 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 divisions, in each of which, in
said county of Hamilton, there shall be 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 held by one or more
of these judges in every county of the dis
trict, 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. j. In each district there shall DC elec!ed,
by the electors at large of such district, one
Judge of the district court, by whom he dis
trict courts in such district shall he held, anl
provided by law. District courts shall be held
in ZACH 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 teIapOre, to hold any court when
ever necessary by reason of the failure, dis
qualification, absence, or sickness nf aHy
Judge, and the amount of pay allowed j'I'ic:
pro tempore may be deducted from the salary
of any Judge whose default causes the necrs-
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 TIE times of the
holding of said courts.
At said election the voters desiring to vote
in favor Of this amen Iment, shall have placed
upon their ballots the words, judicial CON
sfitutonal amendment, Yes" and the voters
who do not favor the adoption of said amend
fneEt, NAV have placed upOH their ballots the
words, Judicial constitutional amendment.
No. and if a majority of all the votes cast 1t
said election be in favor of said amendment,
hen said sections three and five herein speci-
it'd, shall be and constitute the sections so
numbered in the said judicial article of tie
Constitution of the State of Ohio: and said
ORIGINAL sections three anl five shall be re
pealed-
JAMES f. NEAL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives. ]
JABEZ W. FITCH,
President Of the Senate.
Adopted April 10, 1872.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIO,)
Dice of the Secretary OF State.
1, Milton Barnes, Secretary of State of the
State of Ohio, do hereby ,rtify, that the
foregoing is a true copy of joint resolution
passed I,y the General Assem- ly of the State
If Ohio, on the 10th day of A pill, A. D. 1879,
taken from the original rolls file'l in this cffire
In testimony whereof, ] have here
unto subscribed my name and affixed
[sEAI. my rf'icial seal, at Columbus the 11th
day cf April, A. D. 1879.
MILTON BARNES.
Tap IA 6m Secretary Of Stale.