Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-24
AMENDMENTS PROPOSED TO THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE
OF NEW JERSEY BY THE LEcls.
LATuRE OF 1908.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
NO. i.
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 a major
fly of the members 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
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 so as to read as follows:
TO- 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
Bidb bc ODcs may remit AIleS HIiQ 1OE-
FIXTURES, and grant reprieves, commute
tons, pardons and paroles after convic-
ton in all cases except impeachment
The four members specially appointed
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 ] of Article VI
50 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 established by law.
| which inferior Courts the Legislature NAV
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 of Section III of Article VI
| to Section H. 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-thixds 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 III JOINT session..
SECTION w.
! /. The Supreme Court shall be organ
! lied in three divisions, namely: the APP
| peals Division. the Law Division, and
| the Chancery Division. 1t shall consist
| of Presiding Justice of the Appeals Dr.
vision who shall be styled the Chief Jus
| tice, 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.
2. 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.
| 8. 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 thereIpon 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 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 lesser number of justices or
! by one justice: such orders to be subject
| TO revision by the Appeals Division.
| On the hearing of a cause in the APP
| peals Division, no Justice who has given
a judicial opinion in 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 Of
| the Supreme Court to be presided ovel
| quoruni for the assignment of justices
and for the appointment of officers, sno
| the enactment of rules.
| 6. The Supreme Court shall appoin-
one or more reporters, not exceeding
| three, to report the decisions of the
Court. and shall by rule denns his OF
| their duties and powers. The reporter
shall hold once for ave years, subject
| however to removal ut the discretion OF
| the Court.
SECTION v.
!. 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 appesl. and such further ap.
| pelIafe Jurisdiction as may pe conrerreo
| upon it by law, together with such
| original jurisdiction as may be incident
| to the complete determination OF any
4 cause on review, saving, however. the
/ right of trial by jury.
| 2. 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 ap-
| pellate jurisdiction. from inferior courts
as may be conferred by statute. shall be
exercised by the Law Division OF the
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