The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-10-16
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an amendment to Sections
Three and Five, Article -Four, of the
Constitution, Recognizing the Ju-
dietary of the State.

Bet resolved by the General Assembly cf
the State Of Ohio, (three ftths of all the
members elected to each house concnrring
| 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 Tuesday of October; A. D. 1879, as
| follows, to-wit: That sections and of
| Article A, entitled judicial" be amended
| so as to read as follows:
SECTION 8. 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 equity lines, and
said districts, other than said county of
Hamilton, shall, without division of coun-
ties, be further divided into sub.divisions,
10 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 said district
shall be held, and he shall receive such
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
hv of ho foi
disqualification, absence, or sickness of any
jndge 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 oi
sold courts.
AT said election the voters desiring tc
vote In favor of this amendment, shall
have placed upon their ballots the words
judicial constitutional amendment. Yes;'
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 II g
majority of all the votes cast at said elec
tion be in favor Of said amend dment, ther
said sections thres and five therein speci
fed shall be and constitute the sections u
): numbered in the said judicial article o
J. Constitution Of the State Of Ohio, and sale
original sections three and five shall be re
n pealed.
:. JAMES E. NEAL.
Speaker of House of Representatives
JABEZ w. FITCH,
,tl President of the Senate
"a Adopted April 10, 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONO,
10 Office of the Secretary of State.
VI ], Milton Barnes, Secretary of the Stat
, Of Ohio, do hereby certify, that the for
going Is true copy Of joint resolutio
passed by the General Assembly Of I'll
= State of Ohio. ON the 10th day Of Apr
d. A. d. 1879, taken from the original ro
fled In this Office.
h. In testimony whereof, hav
hersunto subscribed my name An
10 (sEAL)aAixed my official seal, at Colum br
the 1th day of April, A. d. 1879.
in MILTON BARNES,
4 Secretary of Stat