The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-08-11

BE 1T RESOLVED, the Senate concurring),
| That the following amendment to the Consti-
| tuition of this State be and the same is hereby
proposed, and when the same shall be agreed
| to by majority of the mem bers elected to
the Senate and to the House OF Assembly, the
said amendment shall be entered ON their
/ Journals with the yeas and nays taken there
/ on, and referred to the Legislature next to be
chosen, and published for three months pre-
| vious TO the first Tuesday after the first Mon
| day of November next, in at least one news
| par per of each county to be designated by the
President 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 Comp
| troller.
| First-StrIke out Paragraph 10 of Section VII
i OF Article ~, and change the numbers of the
following paragraphs to correspond.
Second-Change Paragraph 10 of Article V
so as to read as follows:
| 10. The Governor or person administering
the government, and four citizens of the State
appointed by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, shall consti-
said Board, or any three of them, of whom the
Governor or person administering the govern
ment shall be one, may remit fines and for
FIXTURES. and grant reprives, combinations,
pardons and paroles, after conviction in ali
cases except impeachment. The four men,
beers specially appointed shall hold office for
five years, and receive for their services COM
pensation which shall not be diminished dur
ing the term of their appointment.
Third-Change Section of Article VI, so as
to read as follows:
SECTION l.
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 es-
tablished by law, which inferior Courts the
Legislature may alter or abolish as the public
good shall require.
Fourth-Strike out all of Sections II, ", V.
VI and VII; Of Article VI, change the number
insert the following section in Article vi:
SECTION III.
Any judge of any of the Courts of the State
may be removed for disa bility continuing for
one year, or for refusal to perform the duties
of his office, by vote of two-thirds Of ali the
members of the Senate and of two-thirds of all |
the members of the House of Assembly voting |
separately, aiter hearing before both Houses |
in joint session.
SECTION ".
l. The Supreme Court shall be organized in |
three divisions, namely: the Appeals Division, |
the Law Division, and the Chancery Division |
1t shall consist of Presiding Justice of the |
Appeals Division who shall be styled the |
Division who shall be styled the President JUS |
tice, and Presiding Justice of the Chancery |
Division, who shall be styled the Chancellor, |
and eighteen Associate Justices, which NUM- Der |
may be increased by law.
2. The Appeals Division shall consist of the |
Chief Justice, and six other Justices of the
Supreme Court to be assigned by the Gov
ernor A Justice of the Supreme Court as |
signed by the Governor to the Appeals Divi-
sion shall serve in said Division until the end /
of his term.
The remaining Justices shall be assigned by |
the supreme court 10 Lu6 Inv OF OHduCeTy
Division, as the business of the Court may re-
quire.
g. Whenever the number of causes before
the Appeals Division shall he so great that
the Division cannot promptly hear and de-
termine them, the Governor shall, when au-
thorized by statute, temporarily 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 decision
of causes pending at the time of such assign
ment.
4. Four Justices shall be necessary to con
stitute a quorum on the final hearing of any
cause in the Appeals Division, but the SUI
preme Court may provide by rule for the
making of introductory orders by a lesser
number or Justices or by one justice; such
orders to be subject to revision by the APP
peals Division.
on the hearing of a cause in the Appeals
Division, no Justice who has given judicial
opinion in the cause in favor OF or against the
Judgment. order or decree under review
shall sit at the hearing to review such Judg-
ment, order or decree, but the reasons for such
opinion shall be assigned to the Court in writ
ing.
s. A majority of all the members of the Sn-
preme Court, TO be presided over by the Chief =