The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-07-04
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
N OF NEW JERSEY PROPOSED BY THE
III GISl,ATITRE OF 1872

BE 1T RESOLVED by the Senate Ohe House
of Assembly concurripg) that the following
be. and the same are hereby proposed, and
when the same shall be agreed to by a ma
?3rity ofsmembers elected to the Senate and
House of Assembly, the said amendments
shall be enter ed 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 No
vember next (being the fourth 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 president
of the Senate, the speaker of the House of
Assembly and the secretary of state.
ARTICLE V.
EXECUTIVE.
l. Inser- in lieu of paragraph 10, new par
agraph, as follows:
the government, the chancellor and the at
torney- general, or two of them of whom the
governor. or person administering the gov
eminent shall be one, may remit fines and
foffeitures and grant pardons, after convic-
ton, in all cases except impeachment.
ARTICLE VI.
JUDICIARY.
l. Insert in lieu of Section II, new section,
as follows:
/. The court of errors and appeals shall
consist of chief judge and four associate
judges, or any.four of them.
2. In case any judge of said court shall be
disqualified to sit in any cause. or shall be
unable for the time being TO discharge the
duties of his flee, whereby the whole num-
Der of judges capable of sitting shall be re-
du ed below four, the Governor shall desig-
nate a Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chan
cellor or a Vice-Chancellor, to discharge such
duties until the disqualification or inability
shall cease.
3, 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
lain aH Of hal1 ha
assigned to the court IN writing; when an
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 in writing of his
reasons therefor.
5. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
the Supreme Court by writ of error shall be
exclusively vestedfI The Court of Errors and
Appeals; but ally writ of error pending in the
Supreme Court at the time of the adoption of
if no change had taken lace.
Section ".
/. Insert in lieu of paragraph l. a new para.
graph, as follows
/. The Court of Chancery shall consist of a
chancellor and such number of vice chancel-
lors 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 practise of the court where
the same is not regulated by statute
Section V.
l.
lowing
The court may sit in divisions at the same OF
different times and places.
Strike out paragraph j.
Section vi.
l. Insert in lieu of paragraphs and 2, the
following
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 /. new para
graph. as follows
/, Judges of the Court of Errors and Ap
eellor, the Vice-c hancellors and the Judges q
the Circuit Court and of the Court of Common
Pleas shall be nominated by the Governer and
appointed by him with the advice and co sent
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 tC
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 the Vice Chan
cellors shall hold their offices for the term o.
seven years, and shall, at stated times, receive
for their services a compensation which shall
not be diminished during the term of their a o.
pointments; and they shall hold no other Office
under the government of this state or the Uni
fed States: the Judges of the Court OF Error,
and Appeals first appointed shall be appointed
for st ven years; Judges of the Court of Com
mon Pleas shall hold their offices for the tern
of five years.
Strike out paragraph 2. 35l