The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-07
FIFTH AMENDMENT.
FOR


| (The different paragraphs of this amendment
| being necessarily interdependent, are consider
| ed one amendment.)
| Strike out paragraph of Section I, of Article
| ", and insert in place thereof the following:
| 8. Elections for members of the Senate and
| general Assembly shall be held every two years
| m the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
november, beginning ammo domini thous-
| ond nine hundred and ten, and every second
| year thereafter; and the two Houses shall meet
| separately on the second Tuesday in January in
| each year at which time of meeting the legisla-
tive year shall commence
| Strike out paragraph I of Section II, Article
| ", and insert in place thereof the following:
| I. The Senate shall be composed of one Sena-
tor from each county in the State, elected by the
| legal voters of the counties respectively, for
four years.
Strike out paragraph of Section H. of Article
| ", and insert in place thereof the following:
| 2. As soon as the Senate shall meet after the
| first election to be held in pursuance of this
constitution they shall be divided by the Senate
/ as equally may be into two classes The
seats of the Senators of the first class shall be
vacated at the expiration of the second year; of
the second class at the expiration of the fourth
| year, SO that class may be elected every
second year and if vacancies happen, by resig-
nation or otherwise, the persons elected to sup
ply such vacancies shall be elected for the unex-
| pired terms only; PY0vfded that the Senators
having the longest period of time still to serve
at the time of making said division shall be en-
| titled to the longer terms
Strike out paragraph of Section III, Article
" and insert in place thereof the following:
I. The general Assembly shall be composed
! of members elected by the legal voters of the
counties respectively, every second year, begin
ming on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
| in November, ammo domini one thousand nine
| hundred and ten, who shall be apportioned
among the said counties nearly as may be
according to the number of their inhabitants.
| The Legislature shall, in the year thousand
| nine hundred and ten, and at its first session
| after each United States decennial Genus here
| after, and not oftener divide and arrange each
county of this state into a district districts
| for the election therein of member or members
of the general Assembly. Each Assembly dis
trict SO constituted shall contain, as nearly as
practicable, an equal number of inhabitants,
and shall consist OF convenient and contiguous
territory in a compact form, but no county, or
part thereof, shall be joined with any other
county, or part thereof, in any such district
pr0yTded, that each county SHALL at all times, be
entitled to at least one member, and the whole
number of members to be chosen shall never ex-
coed sixty
The Court of Last Resort, by whatever name
known, is hereby invested with exclusive
original jurisdiction and with full power, under
such procedure as it may by rules prescribe, to-
review any division and arrangement made by
the Legislature into Assembly districts of the
counties of this state for the purpose of determ
ing whether such arrangement and division,
any part thereof, is in accordance or in conflict
with this section, and if in conflict herewith, to
adjudge the same, or such part thereof as may
be in conflict herewith, null and void. In case
said court shall determine such arrangement
and division, or any part thereof, to be null and
void the Legislature shall proceed to make a
new arrangement and division, entire or
partial. as the action of the court may require.
in place thereof the following:
, 4. The Governor shall hold his Office for four
years, to commence at twelve O'Clock noon ON
the third Tuesday of January next ensuing the
election for Governor by the people, and to end
at twelve O'Clock noon on the third Tuesday of
January four years thereafter; and he shall be
incapable of holding that Office for four years
next after his term of service shall have EXPIRED
and appointment or nomination to Office
shall be made by the Governor during the last
week of said term.
Strike out paragraph 6 of Section II, of Article
VII, and insert in place thereof the following:
6. Clerks and Surrogates of counties shall be
elected by the people Of their respective counties
at the elections for the members of the general
Assembly. They shall hold their Offices for six
years.
Strike out paragraph 7of Section II, Article
VII, and insert in place thereof the following:
7. Sheriffs and coroners shall be elected by the
people of their respective counties at the cleo
tions for members of the general Assembly, and
shall hold their offices for four years, after
which four years must elapse before they can be
again capable of serving. Sheriffs shall annual
ly renew their bonds.
Add to Section II of Article VII three para
graphs, to be known as paragraphs II, I3 and
ID, to read as follows:
IL. All elections for Governor, members of
of the Senate and general Assembly, Sheriffs.
Coroners, County Clerks and Surrogates of
counties and all other officers now hereafter
necessary to be chosen by the electors of the
whole state or of any county thereof, shall be
held every second year, on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November, beginning
ammo domini thousand nine hundred and
ten.
H. All elections for justices of the peace and
all and any municipal officers, as distinguished
from state and county officers hereinbefore
provided, now hereafter necessary to be
chosen by the electors of any city, borough,
town. township village subdivision thereof,
or any municipality of this state, except coun-
ties shall be held every second year ON the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November
ammo domini thousand nine hundred and
eleven
"a Except as herein provided with relation
to the Office of Senators, all officers filling any
elective office at the time these amendments take
effect shall continue in the exercise of the
duties thereof according to their respective
commissions or terms of office, and until their
successors may be elected and qualified under
the provisions of these amendents, and all
officers whose terms of Office would expire after
these amendments take affect and prior to the
election and qualification of their successors in
Office, at the election for the respective Offices
first held under the provisions of these amend
ments, shall continue in Office until their sue
cessors can be elected and qualified, at the cleo
ton for such Office offices to be held next after
these amendments take effect, according to the
provisions hereof.
The Legislature shall pass all necessary laws
to arrange the terms of Office of all statutory
elective officers so that said terms may be in
harmony with these amendments, and to carry
into effectthe provisions hereof.
These amendments, if adopted, shall take
effect and 90 into operation on the first day of
February. in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and ten