The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-08-13
A MENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU-
N TION OF NEW JERSEY, PRO-
POSED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF 1901

A MENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU-
IN TION OF NEW JERSEY, PRO-
POSED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF 1901.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate the House of
Assembly concurring), That the following
amendments to the constitution OF this state be i
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 As
semb1y, the said amendments shall be entered on
their Journals, with the yeas and nays taken |
thereon and referred to the legislature next be
chosen, and shall be published for three months |
previous to the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day of November next being the fifth day of said
month"; in at least newspaper of each county, |
to be designated by the president of the Senate,
the speaker of the House of Assembly and the |
secretary of state
ARTICLE v
EXECUTIVE.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph 10. new paragraph
as follows:
10. The Governor, or person administering the |
government, the Chancellor and the Attorney
General, or two of them whom the Governor or
person administering the government shall be
one, may remit fines and forfeitures and grant
pardons after conviction, in all cases except i'm
ARTICLE VI.
JUDICIARY
Insert in lieu of Section II, new section as
follows:
l. The Court of Errors and Appeals shall con-
or any four of them.
2. In case any Judge of said Court shall be dis
qualihed to sit in any cause, or shall be unable
for the time being to discharge the duties of his
Office. whereby the whole number of Judges
capable of sitting shall be reduced below four,
the Governor shall designate Justice of the SUI
preme Court, the Chancellor a Vice Chancellor
to discharge such duties until the disqualification
or inability shall cease.
The Secretary of State shall be the Clerk of
this Court.
4. When writ of error shall be brought any
judicial opinion i'll the cause in favor of or
against any error complained of, shall be assign
ed to the Court in writing. When an appeal shall
be taken from an order or decree of the Court of
Chancery, the Chancellor or Vice Chancellor
making such decree or order shall inform the
Court in writing of his reasons therefor.
;. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the
lively vested in the Court of Errors aud Appeals
but any writ of error pending in the Supreme
Court at the time of the adoption of this amend
ment shall be proceeded upon as if no change had
taken place.
Section W.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph 1, new paragraph
l. The Court of Chancery shall consist of
chancellor and such number of Vice Chance1lors
as shall be provided by law, each of whom may
exercise the jurisdiction of the Court. The Court
shall make rules governing the hearing of causes
and the practice of the Court, where the same is
not regulated by statute.
Section u
At the end of Parag raph l. add the following
The Court may sit in divisions at the same or
different times and places.
Strike out Paragraph g.
Section W.
Insert in lieu of Paragraphs l and ?, the fol-
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
Section II
Inserti lieu of Paragraph l. a new paragraph
as follows:
l. Judges of the Court OF Errors and APP
peals, justices OF the Supreme Court, the
Judges of the Circuit Court and of the Court
OF Common Pleas shall be nominated by the
Governor and appointed by him with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate. All persons
now holding any office in this paragraph
named except the Judges of the Court Of Err
rors and Appeals as heretofore existing, sshall
continue in the exercise of the duties Of their
respective offices according to their respective
commissions or appointments The Judges
OF the Court of Errors and Appeals, except
those first appointed; the Justices of the SUI
preme Court, the Chancellor ana the Vice
Chancellors shall hold their offices for the term
OF seven years and shall at stated times re-
ceive for their services a compensation which
shall not be diminished during the term of
their appointment; and they shall hold no
| other Office under the government OF this
State or the United States.
The Judges OF the Court OF Errors and APP
peals hrst appointed shall be appointed one
for three years, two tor five years and two for
seven years. Judges of the Court or Common
Pleas shall hold their Offices tor the term of
five years.
Strike out Paragraph 2.
l. ResoIUed (the House of Assembly con.
curring). That the following amendments 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 there
on, and referred to the legislature next To be
hnd fNTefh TO. 81,
vious to the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day OF November next, being the fifth day OF
county, If any be published therein, the said
| newspaper to be designated by the president
OF the senate, the speaker of the house OF as
sembly and the secretary of state.
l. Amend Paragraph g. of Section l. OF Ar
t1cle ~, so as to read as follows:
3. Members of the senate and general as
sembly shall be elected on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November; in the
year nineteen hundred and Two members of
the general assembly shall be elected tor the
term of one year, and In the year nineteen
hundred and three, and every second wear
thereafter, they shall be elected for the term
OF two years; each house OF the legislature
shall meet separately on the second Tuesday
in January next after each election for MEM
bers of the general assembly; the time for
holding SUCH elections may be altered by the
legislature.
2. Amend Paragraphs and 2, OF Section II,
of Article ~, so as to read as follows:
| l. The senate shall be composed of one SEN
ator from each county in the state elected bv
the legal voters OF the counties respectively
for tour years. except as provided in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
2. The terms of the senators elected in the
year Mint teen hundred and one shall be ex-
tended to four years from the commencement
OF their terms; as soon as the senate shall
meet after the first election to be held after
the adoption OF this amendment, the senators
elected in the year nineteen hundred and two
shall be divided by lot under the direction OF
b e IwT eases as nearly as
shall be vacated at the expiration OF three
years, and OF the other class at the ex piratlon
OF f1Ye years; the seats OF the senators elected
in the year nineteen hundred and three and
of all senators elected thereafter, shall be
vacated at the expiration of four years from
the commencement of their terms, so that
one-half the number of senators, as nearly as
may be, shall be elected every second year, at
the same time that members of the general
| assembly are elected; and all vacancies caused
by resignation or otherwise shall be filed for
the unexpired terms only.
8. Amend Section III, OF Article w bv
striking out the word annually"
4 Amend Paragraph 7, Of Section Nv, OF
Article ~, so as to read as follows:
z. Members OF the senate and general as
sembly shall each receive the sum OF five hun
dred dollars for each year Of their term, and
indirectly, for any purpose whatever; the
president OF the senate and the speaker OF the
n9nse OF assembly snail IN yirture OF their
equal to one-third of their allowance as men,
Ders.
s. Amend Paragraph 8, of Article v, SO as
to read as follows:
8. The term of the Governor elected in the
year nineteen hundred and one shall be ex-
tended to tour years from the commencement
OF his term, and he shall hold his Office until
the third Tuesday of January, nineteen hun
dred and six; thereafter the Governor shall
hold his office for four years, to commence on
the third Tuesday of January next ensuing
his election and to end ON the Monday pre-
ceding the third Tuesday of January four
years thereafter, and he shall be incapable OF
holding that office for four years next after
b is term of service shall have expired, and no
appointment or nomination to office shall be
made by the Governor during the last week
of lis said term
A DEMONSTRATORS SALE.
By virtue of an order OF the Burlington
County Orphans Court, dated July 8, A. D.
1901, the undersigned, administrator with will
ANNEXED of Mark II SOOv deceased will sell