Smyrna times., 1912-10-23
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

An. Act proposing certain amendments t.
article i Of the Constitution Of THE
state, relating TO the number Of JlSGq1s.
c0nstttttttng a quorum in the SUpeT9jg-
court, tie Court Of General Sessions and
the Court Of Oyer and T'eTmiRer, The
seasons Of said courts, and tie diStTi-
60Cs0n Of tile business therein, respect
i0ely.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the State of Delaware in General
Assembly met OwO-thirds of all the members
elected to each house agreeing thereto):
Section /. That Section of Article " Of the,
constitution of this State be, and the same is
hereby amended by stricking out all of said Sec
@ uon al er the hrst paragraph thereof and substi
tuung therefor the following new paragraphs
to-wit
The said five Judges shall designate those os
their number who shall hold the said Courts in
the several Counties. No more than three NJ
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
LOT Associate Judges present shall preside
one shall constitute a quorum in the sai6l
courts, respectively, except in the Court of Over
ana Ierminer, where three shall constitute 3
quorum ana except in the Superior Court sitting
70 hear appeals from the Orphans Court OF =
Registers Court, when two shall constitute 8
quorum, and except in the Court of General Ses-
% siuns hlttllg 10 Try cases OF prosecution under
Section of Article of this Constitution or Sit
ulg le-hear contested applications for license 10
tute quorum
Courts" my vi 'NiO-
secuon2 That Article " of the Constitution
OF this State be, and the same is hereby amended,
by striking out all of Section thereof and snhsti
tntlng therefore the following new Section &
Section 6. Subject to the provisions of Section,
0 OF TINS Article, two or more sessions of the Sn-
perlOr Court or Court of General Sessions or one
OF more sessions of each OF the said Courts or one
Session of the Court of Over and Terminer sDS,
oHs OF TWO OF either or one of each OF the other
OF tne sald courts may at the same time he belT,
IN IN the same county or in different counties anCl
ribDtad Unsess & IN tne several counties may be dis
tIlpuIeQ ana apportioned in such manner as.
respectively"
D. W. CAMPBELL.
Speaker of the HOnSe
JNO. NJ. MENDINHALL.
Arv,,o... ~, President of the Senate
approved March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred
SIMEON S. PENNEwILL.
|, Charles S. Richards Secretary of Stste ~ H.
ssaIe sns oi Delaware, do hereby certify thar The
ABOVE and foregoing is a true and eOrree, coDy ~
house Bill No. As, entitled IAN Act pronasino.
certain Amendments to Article w of the Consti-
luton I OF thls state relating 10 the number OF
STuuees constituting quorum in the Superior
Court, the Court of General Sessions ana the
court OF oyer and Terminer, the sessions Of saiSa
Gbourts, tbs, and the distribution of the business
ttineIelni respectively as the same appears OF,
the enrolledBill filed in the office OF the seeTetsr
OF OF eIaie and approved by the Governor March
tWehtleth, A. ID. 1911, which said Bill pronosine-
cn A,inen9ment TO the Constitution of III Is State
ls published in accordance with the requirements.
oi tne constitution of the State
in TESTIMONY WHEREOF have
hereunto set my hand and official
~ % seal, at Dover, this twenty-third dav
ofJuly, in the year of our Lord one,
thousand nine hundred and twelve
CHARLES s. RICHARDS,
secretary of State