The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-05
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
n OF NEW JERSEY PROPOSED BY THE
- IEGTSIATJJPE OF 1902

BE IT RESOLVE by the Senate the House
OF Assembly concurring) that the owing
amendments to the constitution of this state
be, and the same are hereby proposed, and
when the same shall be agreed to by q ma
?ority Oftmembers 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, ard 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
mon ID, 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. lnser in lieu of paragraph 10, new par.
agraph as follows:
III. 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 gov
eminent shall be one may remit fines and
for FIXTURES and grant pardons, after conyic-
ton, in all cases except impe achment.
ARTICLE vi.
JUDICIARY.
/. Insert in lieu of section II, new section
as follows:
l. The court of errors and appeals shall
consist of chief judge and four associate
judges, or any four of them.
g 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 office, whereby the whole num-
Der of judges capable of sitting shall be re-
du ed below four, the Governor shall desig
Date 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
4. When writ of error shall be brought,
any judicial opinion in the cause, in favor of
against A1V error cQmnlainpd Of shall ha
assigned 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
g. The Jurisdiction heretofore exercised by
the Supreme Court by writ of error shall be
exclusively vestediE 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 Ilace.
Section ".
|. Insert in lieu of paragraph /, new para.
graph, as followe:
/. The Court of Chancery shall consist of a
chancellor and 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 practise, of the court, where
the same is not regulated by statute.
Section V.
lowing:
The court may sit in divisions at the same OF
different times and places.
Strike out paragraph 3.
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 IL.
l. Insert in lieu of paragraph l. a new para
graph as follows:
/. Judges of the Court of Errors and Ap
peals, Justices of the Supreme Court, the Chan
cellor. the Vice. chancellors and the Judges
the Circuit Court and of the Court of Common
appointed by him with the advice and co SEN
of the Senate; all persons now holding am
office in this paragraph named, excep
the Judges of the Court of Errort
and Appeals as heretofore existing, shall
continue in the exercise of tn,
duties of their respective offices according Il
their respective commissions or appointments
the Judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals
except those first appointed; the Justices of thu
Supreme Court. the Chancellor, the Vice. Chan
cellors shall hold their offices for the term
seven years, and shall, at stated times, receive
for their services a compensation which shall
not be dimished during the term of their at
pointments; and they shall hold no other ottic
under the government of this state or the Uni
ted States; the Judges of the Court OF Error
and Appeals first appointed shall be appointed
one for three years, two for five years and TIVE
for Sc ven years; Judges of the Court of Com
mon Pleas shall hold their offices for the tern
of five years.
Strike out paragraph 2. Dol