The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-11
But Few of Them Have Been
CurtaiIed.
MR.. AKERs' TERM ABOLISHED
New Corporation Commission Goes in
Next MarchrPresent Legislature
to ReassembIe in November,
With No Limit as to Time.
Registration Ordinance
Nearly Complete.

weary SoH'Fiete.
The Final Revision Committee OF this
Constitutional Convention pracioaily
completed It's work yesterday. The
schedule Tor putting the new Instrument
into effect was completed, and is printed
IL tull below. The ordinance relaliTs TO
new registration is being worked upon
.iid is nearly competed. but the fin.sli- ,
ing touches will not be put upon it ue-
tore tomorrow. All the other oIdt-
RANGES and the schedules are now in tia
hands of the printer.
Ihe work of the Revision COMMITTEES
las been Gone with great care, ana no
Time OF PAINS has been spared to faaae
tue new Constitution complete in eve. y
detail.
Tile policy of the committee in relation
to officers has been TO extend rather
than curtal the terms where it could ha
done without disturbing the harmony 81
other provisions, and on this score Tiers
cer arise but little opposition 10 lha
Constitution.
The terms of the Supreme Court Judges
are extended two years. and that of the
balance of the judges until February,
1soi when the new circuit judges go into
Office
The terms OF Governor and most Of ths
State and county officers are also ex-
also extended. but that of Railroad Com
missioner is reduced.
The new Legisla ture is authorized to
meet on the second Wednesday in No
vember. 1902. to put the new Constiti-
ticn into effect. and limit Is placed
upon their term.
THE PAPER IN FULL
Tie schedule. which Is a very concise
and able paper. is in full as follows:
Section 1. That no Inconvenience may
arise from the adoption of thia Corsti-
tuition, and in order to provide for car
rying it into complete operation, it is
hereby ordained that:
>. The common law and tho s;ltuts
laws in force at the time this Colsti.u.
ton goes into effect, and not repuglanc
thereto or repealed thereby, shall ron.ai1
in force until they expire by their ewn
limitation or are altered or repea. ed bH
the General Assembly.
). All ordinances adopted by this con-
vention and appended to the Official
original draft of the Constitution deliv-
cred to the Secretary of the Common
wealth, shall have the same force md
effect as if they were parts of this Con-
sttutfon.
Except as modified by this Consti-
tCticn, all writs, actions and causes IL
action. prosecutions. rights of fndividuai1,
OF cdies, corporate or polite. and Of the
inSs. civil and criminal pending at the
time this Constitution goes into effect, or
Instituted prior to the first day of Feb
ruary. nineteen hundred and four In atty
county or circuit court, as now existing.
shall be prosecuted therein: Provided
that all such matters. whlcE are not f.
nally terminated before the day asst
'hove mentioned. shall. on that date Lv
operation of this Constitution and sche.,-
n n TO he.
of the county or city created under tlts
Constitution. and shall be proceeded with
therein. All such matters pending in tho
city courts. preserved by this Constitu-
ton, when the same goes into effect, or
thereafter instituted therein, shall CHI,
tinue in said courts and be therein rrc-
ceeded with. until otherwise provided sy
law. All matters before justices of tllS
peace or police justices at the time this
Constitution goes into effect shall BIS
proceeded with before them. until other
wise provided By law. All legal pro-
ceedings prosecuted after this Constitu-
ton goes into effect. whether in any &c
the courts now existing. or in thos, cre-
ated by this Constitution. shall be pro-
ceeded with in the manner now or here
after provided by law except as othars
wise required by this Constitution.
TAXES AND FINES
and escheats, accrued or accruing to the
Commonwealth. or to any pontical sub.
division thereof. under the present Cone
Stitution. or under the laws now in force
shall. under this Constitution, enure tf
the use OF the Commonwealth, or of suck
subdivision thereof.
s. All recoGnizances, and other obligS
tons. and all other instruments entere,
into or executed before the adoption Oh.
itI-fjp hafo
organization Of the departments there.
under. TO the Commonwealth or to any
county. or political subdivision thereof
city. town, board. or other public corpoe
ration, OR institution therein, or TO ant
public officer, shall remain binding and
valid. and rights and liabilities there
under shall continue and may be enforced
or prosecuted in the courts OF s..is States
as provided by law
7. From the day this Constitution goeE
into effect. the present judges Of the SUI
prerne Court of Appeals, or their success
ors then in Office, shall be the JUDGES OF
the Supreme Court OF Appeals created by
this Constitution, and continue In orice,
unless sooner removed. until February !,
1907 The Jurisdiction OF the court shalt
be as now or hereafter provided by laws
subject to the provisions OF this Constt.s
tuition All proceedings. then pending in
the court as now organized. shall. by Viz
tue OF this Constitution. be transferred
to and disposed of by the court created
by this Constitution
s. The present judicial system OF coun-
ty and circuit courts OF the Common
wealth Is continued. and the terms OF the
several judges thereof with the powers and
duties now possessed by them. respective
", are continued until the first day OF I
February. 1904. as II this Constitution had
not been adopted; on which Day the Ju-s
dicial system of circuit courts created ~
this Constitution shall so into operation,
Continued on fourteenth Pagel &.