The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-09-23
A MENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU-
"A TON OF NEW JERSEY, PROPOSED
BY THE LEGISLATURE OF IQO0

N TON OF NEW JERSEY, PROPOSED
BY THE LEGISLATURES OF 1902.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate 1.-THE House OF
Assembly concurring) that the following
amendments to the constitution of this state
be, and the same are hereby proposed, ana
when the same shall be agreed to by a major
ity of members elected to the Senate ana
House OF Assembly, the said amendments
shall be entered on their journals, with the
yeas and nays taken thereon. and referred to
the legislature next to be chose II, and shall be
published for three months previous to the
nrst Tuesday after the first Monday of No
vember next tbeing the fourth day of said
month";, in at least one newspaper OF each
county. If any be published therein, the said
newspapers to be designa ted by the president
of the Senate, the speaker of the House of
Assembly and the secre airy OF state.
ARTICLE v.
EXECUTIVE
l. Insert in lieu of paragraph TO- new par
10. The governor. or person administering
the government, the chancellor and the at
governor, or person administering the gov
eminent, shall be one, may remit fines and
forfeituresl and grant pardons, after convic-
ton, in all cases except Impeachment
ARTICLE vi.
JUDICIARY.
l. Insert in lieu OF Section H. new section
as follows
l. The court OF errors and appeals shall
consist OF chief judge and four associate
judges. or any tour of them
2. In case any judge OF said court shall be-
disqualified to sit in any cause or shall he
unable for the time being to discharge the
duties OF his office, hereby the whole mum
Der OF judges capable OF sitting shall be re-
duced below four, the governor shall desig-
nate aJuSt1ce OF the supreme court, the chan
cellor or a vice-cnancellor to discharge such
duties until the disqualification OF inability
shall cease.
| g. The secretary of state shall be the clerk
of this court
A. When writ of error shall be brought.
any Judicial opinion in the cause, in favor OF
| OF against any error complained OF shall be
assigned to the court in writing; when an an
peal snail 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.
| s. 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 had taken place.
Section ".
| l. Insert in lieu OF paragraph l. a new para
| l. The court of chancery shall consist OF a
chancellor and such numDer OF vice-chancel-
0as as shall be provided by law each Of whom
| court shall make rules governing the hearing
of causes and the practice OF the court, where
the same is not regulated by statute.
Section "
l. At the end OF paragraph l, add the follow.
The court may sit in divisions at the same
or Inherent times and places.
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Section VI
| following: 49,
The court of common pleas shall be con.
stituted and held in each county in such
manner as may be provided by law.
ARTICLE VII.
CIVIL OFFICERS
Section H.
| l. Insert In lieu of paragraph l. a new nara.
graph as follows
| /. Judges of the court of errors and an.
cellor, the vice chancelIors 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 advice and con.
sent OF the Senate; all persons now holding
any ONCE in this paragraph named, except the
heretofore existing, shall continue in the ex-
erclse OF the duties OF their respective offices
according to their respective commissions or
appointments; the judges OF the court OF err
rors ana appeals, except those first appointed:
| the Justices of the supreme court, the chan.
ot1ces for the term of seven years. and SHALL
at stated times receive for their services a
compensation which shall not be diminished
curing the term of their appointments; and
tney shall mold no other office under the gov
ernment of this state or the United States:
tne Judges OF the court OF errors and appeals
| nrsU appointed shall be appointed one for
three years, two for FIVE years and two tor
seven years; judges OF the court of common
pleas shall hold their offices tor the term of
| five years.
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