Smyrna times., 1912-07-31
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

An Act proposing certain amendments to
article " Of the Constitution Of this
State, relating TO the number Of Judges
constituting quorum in the Superior
Court the Court Of General Sessions and
the Court Of oyer and 1ermtneT-, me
sessions Of said courts, and the dSstTI-
button Of the business therein, respect
tUely
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep,
resentatives of the State of Delaware in General
Assembly met (twO-thirds of all the members
elected to each house agreeing theretoG
Section l. That section ; of Article " of the
Constitution of this State be, and the same IS,
hereby amended by stricking out all OF said Sec
ton after the first paragraph thereof ana SuOst-
tuting therefor the following new paragraphs
to-wit:
The said five Judges shall designate those of
their number who shall hold the said Courts in
the several Counties. No more than three Of
them shall sit together in any of the said Courts
In each of the said Courts the Chief Justice when
present shall preside, and IN his absence the sen
iOr Associate Judges present shall PRESIDE
One shall constitute quorum in the sald
Courts, respectively, except in the Court OF oyer
and Terminer, where three shall constitute
quorum, ana except in the Superior Court sitting
to hear appeals from the Orphans Court or a
Registers Court, when two shall constitute u
quorum, and except in the Court of General ses-
siOns sitting TO try cases of prosecution under
Section of Article of this Constitution or sit
ting to hear contested applications for license TO
sell intoxicating liquors, when two shall consl-
tute quorum.
One judge may open and adjourn any of said
Courts"
Secuon2. That Article " of the Constitution
of this State be, and the same is. hereby amended
by striking out all of Section thereof and subst-
tuting therefore the following new section D.,
tO-wit:
Section 6. Subject to the provisions of Section
5 of this Article two or more sessions of the Su-
periOr Court, or Court of General Sessions, or one
or more sessions of each of the said Courts, or one
Session of the Court of Oyer and Termtner ana
Oft ,cnSNl ana Of oh Of
of the said courts may at the same time be held
in the same county or in different counties and
/ the business in the several counties may De dis
tributed and appOrtiOned in sucn manner as
shall be provided by the rules of the said courts
D. W. CAMPBELL,
Speaker of the House.
JNO. NJ. MENDINHALL.
President of the Senate.
Approved March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred
SIMEON S. PENNEwILL,
|, Charles g Richards, Secretary of state of the
/ State of Delaware, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is true and correct copy OF
| House Bill No. As, entitled An Act proposing
| certain Amendments to Article ~ of the Consti-
/ tuition of this State, relating to the number Ol
i Judges constituting a quorum in the superior
/ Court the Court of General Sessions and the
/ Court of Oyer and Terminer the sessions of said
| Cjurts and the distribution of the business
/ therein, respectively as the same appears or
the enrOlledBill filed in the office of the secretary
/ of state and approved by the Governor Marct
twentieth. A. d. 1911, which said Bill proposing
| such Amendment TO the Constitution OF this State
| is published in accordance with the requirement.
| of the Constitution of the State.
| IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have
hereunto set my hand and Oficia
| Il. s seal. at Dover, this twenty-third dal
| of July. in the year of our Lord one
| thousand nine hundred and twelve
CHARLES S. RICHARDS,
Secretary of State.