Newark post., 1912-10-02
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Constitutional Amendment

An Act proposing certain amendments.
Article Nv of the Constitution of 49,:
State, relating to the number of .IuJa
constituting e quorum in the Supsx;s'
Court, the Court Of General Sess;ao
and the Court of Oyer and Teru;na-'
the sessions of said courts, and ~
distribution of the business thea"
respectively.
he II enacted by the Senate and Hons. NJ .,
reseutatives of the State OF Delaware in C,sl, "sl,
Assembly met ltwothirds OF all the memSssna
elected to each House agreeing thereto. '>'S
Section l.. That Section of Article ~ nc =,
Constitution of this State he, and TIE s,r. ';e
hereby amended by striking out all ofssliJ Ss.ss'
tou after the first paragraph thereof and sui
ting therefor the following new paragraph to wv,
HTiie said five Judges shaft designate fhosw"u
their number who shall hold the said Ca,iriSs u; VI
the several Counties. No more than three ri th III
shall sit together in any OF the said Courts t
each OF the said Courts the Chief Justirr u,n ln
present shall preside, and i'll his absence Sn tS
senior Associate Judges present shall preside '"e
One shall constitute quorum in the said Co,,..
respectively, except i'll the Court of Over and rs
miner where three shall constitute Quorum Isl e,
except III the Superior Court sitting IN htu
appeals from the orphans Court or Reg:s,ee,s,t nest
Court when two shall constitute Quorum ei;
except in the Court OF General Sessions s;tf;nam "
try cases of prosecution under Section Of A.o 20
of this Constitution or sitting to hear contas.S
applications for license to sell intoxicatiny Tu
ors, when two shall constitute a quorum, "'"'
one Judge may open and adjourn any Of s,;a
Courts" N
Section ?. That Article " of the Cous,;,,,;
of the State be, and the same is. herel, a,rsnS
by striking out all OF Section thereof and s,,i
tuting therefor the following new Section =,
wit:
ton of this Article two or more sessions nf ,i
Superior Court or Court OF General Sessions s ns
one sessions. OF each of the said CO.. vi
or one Session Of the Court OF over and u: l''
and one two of either, or one of each ~ ,
other OF the said courts may at the same tim, 'Ie
held in the same county or in different conntie.
and the business Ill the several counties NM,
dstrib buted and apportioned in sucl, manmsr "e e
shall be provided By the rules of the said co,rts
| respectively WV" 10
ID. W. CAMPBELL,
JNO. NJ. .MENDINHALI '''''e
| President of the Sen,,.
Approved March Twentieth Nineteen HupJrai
SIMEON s. PENNEwILI.
I, Charles S. Richards Secretary of STAT nS H.,
! State OF Delaware do hereby certify that ,hS
above and foregoing is true and correct CON-, M y
| House Bill No as, entitled Ar Ac, pronns;nn "
| certain Amendments to Article II Of the rons.ss
| tuition OF this State, relating to he numba,
! OF Judges constituting quorum in Nh Superior
Court OF Oyer and Termner, the sessions of sa;i
courts, and the distribution OF the business tbra
IN, respectively" as the same appears on the sn.
rolled Bill filed in the Office OF the Secre,ar, ~
State, and approved by the Goyernor NJ u
| twentieth, A. d. 1911 which said Bill nronna;n"
such Amendment to the Constitution of this S,a.s
IS published in accordance with the Requirement.
OF the Constitution of the State
! IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF 7 ,,c,
| hereunto set my hand and official Se,i
! Ll"S.I at Dover, this twenty-third day n
| July, IN the year of our Lord o,s
| thousand nine hundred and twelve
| CHARLES S. RICHARDS
| secretary OF State