The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-06-12
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an Amendment to Sections Thr ee
and Five, Article Four, of the Constitu
tion, RcOrganizing the judiciary of the
State.

BE IL ResoJUed bg the General assembly ofthe
State Of ohio (three fifths of all the members
a proposition to amend the Constitution OF the
State of Ohio be submitted to the electors of the
SIate, In on ihe second dueSday OF Oclo6er a. ID:
1879, as loIOWS, to-Wll: Inat sections 3 and D of
article 4, entitled Judicial" be 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 snail be OF compact territory, bounded
by county lines, and said districts, other than
said county of Hamilton, shan, without diYis-
ion of counties, be further divided into SUBJ
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 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. 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 such district shall be held, and he
! shall receive such compensation as may be pro-
! vided by law. District courts shall be held in
! each county at least once every year. The Gen
! erai Assembly may increase the number of dis
| trict court judges to three, in any district or
! districts, and may provide for having judge
| pro tempOTe, to hold any court whenever neces-
absence, or sickness of any judge, and the
amount o pay allowed judge pro tempore
| may be deducted from the salary of any judge
| whose default causes the necessity 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 author
iZe 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 this amendment shall have placed up
on tn sir ballots the words, "Judicial constitu-
tional amendment, Yes" and the voters who
do not favor the adoption OF said amendment,
may have placed upon their ballots the words,
Judicial constitutional amendment, No :"
and if majority of all the votes cast at said
election be in favor OF said amendment, then
said sections three and five herein specified,
shall be and constitute the sections so number
ed in the said judicial article oft he Constitution
of the State o. Ohio and said original sections
three and FIVE shall be repealed.
JAMES j.. NEAL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate.
Adopted April 10. 1870.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIO,
Office Of the Secretary of State
l, Milton Barnes Secretary of State of the
State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the fore
going 1sa true copy of joint RESOLUTION passed
by the General Assembly OF the state of Ohio,
on the 10Th day of A April, Il. ID. IS79 taken from
the original rolls filed in this office.
In testimony whereof, | have hereun-
to subscribed my name and affixed
SEAL my official seal, at Columbus, the llth
day of April, y. j. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
ApF.I4 li2W 6m. Secretary OF state.