The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-07-24
Passed April u, 1879.
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an Amendm ent to Sections Thr &c
and Five, Article Four, of the Constitu
tion, Reorganizing the Judiciary of the
State.

Be ii ResolUed by the General assembly Of the
State Of Ohio Qhree-fifths of all the members
proposition to amend the Constitution of the
state of Ohio be submitted to the electors of the
1879, as follows, to-wit: That sections aid OF
article 4, entitled Judicial" be amended so as
to be and read as follows:
SECTION 3. The State shall be divided in to
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, shah, without diyis-
ion of counties, be further divided into sub
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 ofthe district, often as may be
provided by law, and more than one court or
sitting thereof may be held at the same time in
SEC. 5. In each district there shall be elected
by the electors at large of such district, one
courts in such district shall be held, and he
shall receive such compensation as may be pro-
each county at least once every year. The Gen
eral Assembly may increase the number of dis
districts, and may provide for having a judge
pro tenlp0re TO hold any court whenever neceS-
sary by reason of the failure, disqualification,
absence, or sickness of any judge, and the
amount OF pay allowed a 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 of this amendment, shall have placed up
on 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 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 ofthe 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.
Adopted April TO- 1879.
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 is true copy of joint resolution passed
by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio,
on the 10th day of April, A. D. 1S79 taken from
the original rolls filed in this office.
In testimony whereof l have hereun-
to subscribed my name and affixed
lsEAL. my official seal, at Columbus, the llth
day of April, A. ID. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
Apr.l4 ltaW 6m. Secretary of State.