Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-17
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF NEW JERSEY BY THE Legs.
LATURE OF 1908.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
NO. !.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.


ring. That the following amendment tc
abe Constitution of this State be and
the same is hereby proposed. and when
the same shall be agreed to by major
ity of the members elected to the Senate
and 70 the House of Assembly, the said
amendment shall be entered on their
journals, with the yeas and nays taken
thereon and referred to the Legislature
next to be chosen. and published for
three months previous to the first Tues
day after the first Monday of November
next. in at least one newspaper of each
county to be designated by the Presi-
dent of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House of Assembly and the Secretary
of State. payment for such publication
to be made by the Treasurer on the
warrant of the Comptroller.
First-Strike out Paragraph 10 of
Section VII of Article " and change
the numbers of the following para
graphs to correspond.
Second = Change Paragraph 10 of
Article v so as to read as follows:
10. The Governor or person administer
ing the government, and four citizens of
the State appointed by the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, shall constitute the Board of Par
dons. The members of said Board, or any
three of them, of whom the Governor or
person administering the government
shall be one. may remit fines and for
FIXTURES, and grant reprieves. commute
lions, pardons and paroles, after convic-
ton in all cases except impeachment.
shall hold Office for five years, and re-
ceive for their services a compensation:
which shall not be diminished during the
term of their appointment.
Third-Change Section 1 of Article vi.
81, as to read as follows:
SECTION T.
The judicial power shall be vested in
a Court for the trial of impeachments, a
Supreme Court, County Courts, and such
other Courts. inferior TO the Supreme
Court, as may be established by law.
which inferior Courts the Legislature NAV
alter or abolish as the public good shall
require.
Fourth-Strike out all of Sections IL.
". V, VI and VII of Article VI, change
the number of Section III Of Article VI
to Section II, and insert the following
sections in Article VI
SECTION III
Any judge of any of the Courts of the
State may be removed for disability con-
tinuing for one year or for refusal to
perform the duties of his office, by vote
of two-thirds Of all the members of the
Senate and of two-thirds of all the mem
bers of the House of Assembly voting
separately. after a hearing before both
Houses in joint session.
SECTION ".
l. The Supreme Court shall be organ
lied in three divisions namely: the APP
peafs Division, the Law Division. ana
the Chancery Division. It shall consist
of a Presiding Justice of the Appeals Di-
vision who shall be styled the Chief JUS
tice a Presiding Justice of the Law Divi-
sion who shall be styled the President
Justice, and a Presiding Justice of the
Chancery Division, who shall be STYLED
the Chancellor. and eighteen Associate
Justices, which number may be increased
by law.
O. The Appeals Division shall consist
of the Chief Justice and six other Jus
tees of the Supreme Court to be as
signed by the Governor. Justice OF
the Supreme Court assigned by the Gov
ernor to the Appeals Division shall serve
in said Division until the end of his term
The remaining Justices shall be as
signed by the Supreme Court to the Law
or Chancery Division, as the business OF
the Court may require.
g. Whenever the number of causes be-
fore the Appeals Division shall be SO
great that the Division cannot promptly
hear and determine them, the Governor
shall when authorized by statute, tenn
porarily assign five of the Justices OF
the other Divisions to sit in the Appeals
Division. which shall thereupon sit in
TWO Divisions for the hearing and deci
sion of causes pending at the time OF
such assignment
4. Four justices shall be necessary to
constitute a quorum on the final hearing
of any cause in the Appeals Division
but the Supreme Court may provide by
rule for the making of interlocutory
orders by a lesser number of justices. or
by one justice: such orders TO be subject
70 revision by the Appeals Division.
On the hearing of cause in the APP
peals Division, no Justice who has giver
a judicial opinion III the cause in favor
of or against the judgment order OF
decree under review shall sit at the
hearing to review such judgment order
or decree but the reasons for such
opinion shall be assigned to the Court il
writing.
s. A majority of all the members 0,
the Supreme Court. to be presided over
by the Chief Justice. shall constitute q
quorum for the assignment of justices
and for the appointment of officers and
the enactment of rules
s. The Supreme Court shall appoint
one or more reporters, not exceeding
three. to report the decisions of tbs
Court. and shall by rule define his or
their duties and powers. The reporters
shall hold Office for five years. subject
however, 10 ISIuONdl dt Inc ulSCTetlOn OF
the Court
SECTION v.
l. The Appeals Division shall have
and exercise the appellate Jurisdiction
heretofore possessed by the Court OF
Errors and Appeals. the jurisdiction
heretofore possessed by the Supreme
Court on writ of error and the jurisdic-
ton heretofore possessed by the Preroga-
tive Court on appeal. and by the Ordi-
nary on appeal, and such further ap-
pellate Jurisdiction as may be conferred
upon it by law, together with such
original jurisdiction as may be incident
to the complete determination of any
cause on review saving, however, the
right of trial by jury.
q The jurisdiction heretofore pos
sessed by the Supreme Court and the
Justices thereof not hereby conferred on
the Appeals Division, and the jurisdic-
ton heretofore possessed by the Circuit
Courts and the Judges thereof. and such
further original jurisdiction not OF an
equitable nature and such further APP
pellate jurisdiction from inferior courts,
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