The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-09-13
A AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
II OF NEW JERSEY. PROPOSED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF lQ0I

A MGE "a ME TO THE CONSTITUTION
n ~ NEW JERSk1. PROPOSED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF 1901
BE n RESOLVED by the Senate Cthe House
OF Assembly concurring), That the following
amendments to the constitution of this State
ne and the same are hereby proposed and when
the same shall be agreed to by a 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 legis-
] lature next to be chosen, and shall be pub
! lished 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 he
published therein. the said newspapers 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, a new para
10. The Governor or person administering
| the government, the Chancellor and the At
torney-General, or two OF them of whom the
| Governor or 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 H. a new section as
| follows
l. The Court of Errors and Appeals shall
| Associate
| Judges or any four of them.
z. In case any Judge of said Court shall be
| disqualified to sit in any cause or shall be I'M
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 a Jus
| tlce of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor ora
wee Chancellor, to discharge such duties I'M
| til the disqualification or inability shall cease
| of this Court.
4, 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 an ap-
peal shall be taken from order decree OF
the Court of Chancery, the Chancellor or Vice
Chancellor making such decree order shall
therefor.
5. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
the Supreme Court by writ of error shall be
exclusively 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 If
no change mad taken place.
SECTION w.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph l. a new para
l. The Court of Chancery shall consist of a
Chancellor md such number of Vice Chancel-
Tors 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 V.
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.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph l and 2, the fol-
ing;
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 IL.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph l, a new para
graph as follows:
/. Judges of rhe Court of Errors and Ap-
Chancellor, the Vice Chancellors and 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 cons ent of the Senate. All persons
| now holding any office in this paragraph nam
| ed except the Judges of the Court of Errors
and Appeals as heretofore existing, shall con-
| tinue in the exercise of the duties of their re-
spectiye 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 Supreme
Court, the Chancellor and the Vice Chancel-
| Tors shall hold their offices for the term of
seven years, and shall at stated times receive
for their services a compensation which shall
MT be diminished during the term of their APP
pointment; and they shall hold no other office
under the government of this State OF the
United States.
peals first appointed shall be appointed one for
three years, two for five Years and two for
seven years; Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas shall hold their offices for the term of
five years.
Strike out Paragraph 2.
/. Resolved (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 hall
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
chosen, and published for three months pre-
vious to the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day of November next being the fifth days of
said month, in at least one newspaper of each
county, If any be published thereiu. the said
newspaper to be designated by the president
of the senate, the speaker of the house of as
5embly ana the secretary OF state.
l. Amend Paragraph 3 of Section l. of Ar
ticle ", SO as to read as follows:
3. Members of the senate and general assem-
bly, shall be elected on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November; in the year
nineteen hundred and three members of the
general assembly shall be elected for the term
of one year, ana in the year nineteen hundred
and four, and every second year thereafter,
they shall be elected for the term Of two
years; eaehshouse of the legislature shall meet
separately on the second Tuesday in January
next after each election for members Of the
General assembly; the time for holding such
elections may be altered by the legislature.
.. Amend paragraphs and 2. of Section II,
ut Article Nv so as 10 read as follows
l. The senate shall be composed of one sena-
TOR from each county in the state, elected by
The legal voters OF the counties respectively for
tour ears except as provided In the following
paragraph.
2. The Ier,us OF the senators elected ia the
ear nineteen hundred and two snail be ex-
tended TO four years from the commencement
of their terms; as soon as The senate shall
meet dIter The election 90 DC heIU I'D the year
II uetteu huudrel and three the senators elect
q in that wear shall be divided by lot under
le dirtc ion. OF the senate iut0 two CLASSES,
ID nt "a alI D Ass rs ID IA