Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-09-19
ARTICLE VI.
JUDICIARY.

JUDICIARY.
Insert in lieu of Section II, a new section as
l. The Court of Errors and Appeals shall CON
sist of Chief Judge and four Associate Judges
or any four of them.
.. In case any Judge of said Court shall be
disqualified TO sit in any cause, shall be un-
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
or inability shall cease
8. The Secretary of State shall be the Clerk of
this Court.
A. When a writ of error shall be brought any
judicial opinion in the cause, in favor of or
against any complained of shall be as
signed to the Court in writing. When appeal
shall be taken from order or decree of the
Court of Chancery, the Chancellor or Vice
Chancellor making such decree or order shall
inform the Court iii writing of his reasons there
for.
s. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the
Supreme Court by writ of error shall be ex-
clusively 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 had taken place.
Section II.
Insert in lieu of Paragraph l, a new para
graph as follows:
l. The Court of Chancery shall consist Of a
Chancellor and such number of Vice Chaneellors
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 Y.
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 1 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.
Section II.
Insert in lieu Of Paragraph l, a new paragraph
follows:
l. Judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals,
Justices of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor,
the Vice Chancellors and the Judges of the Cir
cult Court and of the Court of Common Pleas
shall be nominated by the Governor and APP
pointed by him with the advice and consent of
the Senate. All persons now holding any Office
in this paragraph named except the Judges of
the Court of Errors and Appeals as heretofore
existing, shall continue in the exercise of the
duties of their respective offices according. to
their respective commissions or appoint
ments. The Judges of the Court of Errors
and Appeals, except those first appointed; the
Justices of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor
and the Vice Chancellors shall hold their offices
for the term of seven years, and shall at stated
times receive for their services 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 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.
l. Resolved 1.-THE House of Assembly concur
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 re-
ferred to the legislature next to be chosen, and
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 newspaper to be
designated by the president of the senate, the
speaker of the house of assembly and the secre-
tary of state.
|. Amend Paragraph 8, of Section l. of Article
~, 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 nine
teen hundred and three members of the general
assembly shall be elected for the term of one
year, and in the year nineteen hundred and
four and every second year 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 members of the general assembly;
the time for holding such elections may be
altered by the legislature.
q Amend Paragraphs l and ., of Section II, of
Article ~, SO as to 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 four
years, except as provided in the following para
graph:
q The terms of the senators elected in the
year nineteen hundred and two shallbe extended
to four years from the commencement of their
terms; as soon as the senate shall meet after
the election to be held in the year nineteen
hundred and three the senators elected in
that year shall be divided by lot under the
direction of the senate into two classes, as
nearly equal as may be- the seats of the
senators of class shall be vacated at the
expiration of three years, and of the other class
at the expiration of five 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 senator's 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 filled for
the unexpired terms only.
8. Amend Section HI, of article ", by strk-
ing out the word annually"
A. Amend Paragraph z, of Section Nv, of
Article ", so as to read as follows:
z. Members of the senate and general assem-
bly, shall each receive the sum of five hundred
dollars for each year OF their term ana no other
allowance or emolument, directly or indirectly,
for any purpose whatever; the president of the
senate and the speaker of the house of assembly
shall, in virtue of their offices, receive adj
ditional compensation equal to one third of
their allowance as members.
5. Amend Paragraph g. of Article V, so
to read as follows
3. The term of the Governor elected in the
year nineteen hundred and four shall be eX-
tended to four years from the commencement
of his term, and he shall hold his office until
bred and nine; 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 preceding
the third Tuesday of January four years there
after, and he shall be incapable of holding that
office for four years next after his term of SER
vice shall have expired, and no appointment or
nomination to office shall be made by the
Governor during the last week OF his said term.
SAMUEL PANCOAST.