The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-09-25
Senate Joint Resolution.
Proposing an amendment to Sections
Three and Five, Article -Four, of the
Constitution, Reorganizing the Ju-
dietary of the State.

Be 1t resolved by the General Assembly Il
the State Of OHIO, (three htths OF all the
members elected ~ each house concurrinR
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. u. 1879, as
follows, tu-wit: That sections and D OF
Article 4, entitled Judicial" be amended
80 rs to read as follows:
SECTION 3 The State shall be divided
into nine common please districts, .. 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,
| 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 said district
snail be held, and he shall receive snch
com pensation 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 a
Judge 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
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 shall be
fed by law, but the General Assembly may
authorize the judges of said courts, respec
lively, to 6x the times of the holding of
sold courts.
Al said election the voters desiring to
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 sdop-
tion Of said amendment, may have placed
upon their ballots the words, judicial
constitutional amendment, No." and il .
majority Of all the votes cast at said elec-
tion be in favor Of said amendment, then
said sections three and FIVE therein speci.
fed shall be and constitute the sections 70
numbered in the said judicial article OF
Constitution of the State of Ohio, and said
original sections three and five shall be re-
pealed.
JAMES E. 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.
!, 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. d. 1879, taken from the original rol
fled in this office
In testimony whereof, hav'
hereunto subscribed my name ant
(sEAL)afix xed my official seal. at Columbu
the 1th day of April, A. D. 1879.
MILTON BARNES,
Secretary Of State
ATTORNEYS.
VIZ E. FINCK, ATTORNEY, AT LAW. d
W. fee, East Main Street, Somerset. Ohio
yXTILLIAM SPENCER, ATTORNEY AT Law
w Once near residence, Somerset, Ohio.