Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-08-29
A MENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF NEW JERSEY, PROPOSED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OLE 1901.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate (the House of
Assembly concurrng that the following amend
ments to the constitution of this state be and
the same are hereby. proposed, and when the
same shall be agreed to by majority of the
members elected to the Senate and House of
Assembly, the said amendments shall be entered
on their journals, with the yeas and nays taken
thereon, and referred to the legislature next to
be chosen, and shall be published for three
months previous to the first Tuesday after the
first Monday of November next (being the fifth
day of said month"; in at least one newspaper
of each county, if any be published therein, the
said newspapers to be designated by the pres-
dent of the Senate, the speaker of the House of
Assembly and the secretary of State;
ARTICLE V.
EXECUTIVE.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph TO- new para
graph as follows:
10. The Governor, or person administering
the government, the Chancellor and the Attor-
ney-General, two of them of whom the
Governor person administering the govern
ment shall be one, may remit fines and for
FIXTURES and grant pardons, after conviction, in
all cases except impeachment.
ARTICLE VI.
JUDICIARY.
Insert in lieu of Section IL, a new section as
follows:
/. The Court of Errors and Appeals shall con-
sst of Chief Judge and four Associate Judges
or any four of them
3 In any Judge of said Court shall be
able for the time being to discharge the duties
of his Office, whereby the whole number of
Judges capable OF sitting shall be reduced be-
low four, the Governor shall designate Justice
of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor or Vice
Chancellor, to discharge such duties until the
disqualification inability shall cease.
B. The Secretary of State shall be the Clerk of
this Court.
A. When writ of error shall be brought, any
judicial opinion in the cause, in favor of or
against any error complained of, shall be as
signed to the Court in writing. When appeal
shall be taken from an order or decree OF the
Court of Chancery, the Chancellor Vice
Chancellor making such decree order shall
inform the Court i'll writing of his reasons there
for.
s. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the
Supreme Court by writ of error shall be ex-
cusively vested in the Court of Errors and
Appeals; but any writ of error pending in the
Supreme Court at the time of the adoption of
this amendment shall be proceeded upon as il
no change had taken place.
Section ".
Insert in lieu of Paragraph !, new para
graph as follows:
l. The Court of Chancery shall consist of
Chancellor and such number of Vice Chancellors
as shall be provided by law, each of whom may
exercise the jurisdiction of the Court. The
of causes and the practice of the Court where
the same is not regulated by statute.
Section r.
At the end of Paragraph /, add the following
The Court may sit in divisions at the same or
different times and places.
Strike out Paragraph 3.
Section VI
Insert in lieu of Paragraphs and 2, the fol-
lowing
The Court of Common Pleas shall be consti-
tuted and held in each county in such manner
as may be provided by law.
ARTICLE VII.
CIVIL OFFICERS.