The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1908-08-25
PROPOSED TO THE CON-
JERSEY BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 1909.
ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
NO.4
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.


BE IT 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 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 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
paper of each county to be Designated by the
President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House of Assembly and the Secretary of State,
the Treasurer on the warrant of the Comp
troller.
First-strike out Paragraph 10 of Section VII
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-
tute the Board of PardOns. The members of
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 reprfves, communications,
pardons and paroles, after conviction In ali
cases except Impeachment. The four MEM
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
Fourth-Strike out all of Sections II, ~, ",
vi and VII, of Article VI, change the number
of Section Ill of Article VI to Section II, and
insert the following section In Article VI:
SECTION Ill.
Any judge of any of the Courts of the State
may be removed for disability continuing for
one year, or for refusal to perform the duties
of his office, by vote of two-thirds of all the
the members of the House of Assembly voting
separately, after hearing before both Houses
in joint session.
SECTION ".
l. The Supreme Court shall be organized in
three divisions, namely; the Appeals Division,
1t shall consist of a Presiding Justice of the
Appeals Division who shall be styled the
Chief Justice, Presiding Justice of the Law
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 number
3 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 to the Law or Chancery
Division, as the business of the Court may re-
quire.
3. Whenever the number of causes before
the Appeals Division shall be 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
;titute 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 interlocutory orders by lesser
number or justices, or by one justice; such
orders to be subject to revision by the APP
)eals Division.
on the hearing of a cause in the Appeals
no Justice who has given a judicial |
opinion in the cause in favor of or against the |
Judgment, order or decree under review |
hail sit at the hearing to review such judg- :
nent, order or decree, but the reasons for such |
opinion shall be assigned to the Court in writ
ng.
s. A majority of all the members of the Su- |
IRENE Court, to be presided over BY the Chiss