Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-17
Senate Joint Resolution

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Proposing an Amendment 10 sections
Three and Five, Article Four, of
the Constitution, ReOrganizing the
Judiciary OF the state.
Be it Resolve5 5y the General AssegabE,, of
the State Of Ohio (three-ifths of all the
members elected to each House concurring
therein). That propositions to amend the
Constitution of the State of Ohio be SUBJ
mitted to the electors of the State on the
second Tuesday of October, A. D. 1879, as
follows, to-wit: That Sections 8 and 5 of
article 4, entitled "Judicial,'' be amend
ed 50 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 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 sit
ting thereof may be held at the same time
in each district.
Sec. 8. In each district there shall be
elected, by the electors at large ofsuch dis
trict, one judge of the district court, by
whom the district courts in such districts
shall be held, and he shall receive such
compensation as may be provided by law !.
District courts shall be heldin each coun-
bY at least once every year. The General
Assembly may increase the number of
district courtjudges to three, in any dis
trict or districts, and may provide for
having judge pro tenpore, to hold any
court whenever necessary by reason of
the failure, disqualification, absence, or
sickness of any judge, and the amount of
pay allowed a judge pro tengpOre may be
deducted from the salary of any judge
whose default causes the necessity of haV-
ing the pro tenlpOre 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 the times
of the holding of said courts.
At said election the voters desiring to
vote in favor of this amendment, shall
have placed upon their 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 a majority of all the votes cast
at said election be in favor of said amend
ment, then said sections three and five
herein specified, shall be and constitute
the sections so numbered in the said Judi
Cial article of the Constitution of the State
of Ohio; and said original sections three
and five shall be repealed.
JAMES E. NEAL,
speaker of the House of Representatives
JABEZ w. FITCH,
President of the Senate.
Passed April 10, 1879.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, OHIo,)
once of the Secretary of State.
1, Milton Barnes, Secretary of State Of
the State of Ohio, do hereby certify. tina
the foregoing is true copv of an ae
passed by the General Assembly of tbc
State of Ohio, on the 10th day OF April
A. d. 1879, taken from the original rolls
filed in this Office. C-~
In testimony thereof, I hav,
hereunto subscribed my name anC
[sEALl affixed my official seal, at Colum
bus, the 10th day of April, A. d
1879. MILTON BARNES,
ap14mo6 Secretary Of State.