The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-09
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an amendment to Sections
Three and Five, Article Four, of the
Constitution, Reorganizing the Ju-
: dietary of the State.

Belt resolued by the General assembly #
the State of Ohio, (three fifths of all the
members elected to each house concurriDg
therein), That'a proposition to amend the
Constitution of the State of Ohio be sub
mitted to the electors of the State, on the
Second Tnesday of October; A. D. 1879, as,
follows, to-wit: That sections 8 and of
Article 4, entitled Judicial" be amended
so as to read as followx "
SECTION 3. The State shall be divided
into nine common please districts, of which
the county of Hamilton shall constitute
one, which district shall be of compact
territory, bounded by connty lines, and
said districts, other than said county of
Hamilton, shall, without division of coun-
ties, be further divided into subdivisions,
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 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 g. 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 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 mum.
Der of district courts to three in any district
or districts, and may provide for having q
udge pro tenn 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 a
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 ahall be
fed by law. but the General Assembly may
authorize the judges of said courts, respec
lively, to fix the times of the holding ol
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. Yss;'
and the voters who do not favor the adop.
tion OF said amendment, may have placed
upon their ballots the words, judicial
constitutional amendment, No." and il q
ton be in favor of said amendment, then
said sections three and Ave therein speci
fed shall be and constitute the sections nc
numbered in the said judicial article o.
Constitution of the State of Ohio, and said
original sections three and five shall be re
, pealed,
JAMES f. NEAL,
Speaker of House of Representatives
JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate
Adopted April 10, 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIO,
Office of the Secretary of State.
. I. Milton Barnes, Secretary of the Stat
of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the for
, going is true copy OF joint resolution
passed by the General Assembly Of tn
State Of Ohio. on the 10th day Of Apri
. A. ID. 1879, taken from the original rol
fled in this office.
In testimony whereof, I hav
hereunto subscribed my name an,
{sEAL) affixed my official seal, at Columbu
the 1th day of April, A. D. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
'' SecretaYy of Statt