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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Constitutional Amendment

An Act proposing certain amendmen..
Article w of the Constitution of az.
State, relating to the number of Juda.'
constituting a quorum in the Suner;s'
Court, the Court of General Se.,os
and the Court of Oyer and Term;n.S
the sessions of said courts, and tI,'
distribution of the business ther.;S
respectively.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of b..
resentatives OF the State of Delaware in C;e,sp
Assembly met (twothirds of all the n,enTla
elected to each House agreeing thereto ''erS
Section /. That Section Of Article TX of 81.
Constitution OF this State be, and the SANE !.
hereby amended by striking out all of said ~
tion after the first paragraph thereof and subst;S
ting therefor the following new paragraph tow,
The said five Judges shall designate thosso;
their number who shall hold the said Cour,S ~
the several Counties. No than three of I'm IN
shall sit together i'll any of the said Courts I
each of the said Courts the Chief Justice wine"
present shall preside, and in his absenca 'E
senior Associate Judges present shall preside "S
One shall constitute quorum in the said Cours
miner, where three shall constitute Quorum ar5
except in the Superior Court sitting to bso
appeals from the Orphans Court or a Repistsr'
Court when two shall constitute quorum, al
except in the Court of General Sessions sittnat n ~
try cases of prosecution under Section of ArtiI
of this Constitution or sitting to hear contestaS
applications for license to sell Intoxicating l;on
ors, when two shall constitute quorum ''
One judge may open and adjourn any Of said
Courts"
Section ?. That Article " of the Const;t,to.
OF the State be, and the same is, hereby ar,enJa
by striking out all OF Section thereof and srbt;
tuting therefor the following new Section +, to
wit:
"Section g. Subject to the provisions or c.,
tion of this Article, two sessions of tbo
! Superior Court. or Court OF General Sessions w
one or more SESSIONS of each of the said Co,r,"
/ or one Session of the Court of oyer and Tern,;n,
and one or two of either, or one of each Of tba
other of the said courts may at the same time he
held in the same county or in different count;sS
| and the business in the several counties mav Ln
distributed and apportioned in such manner as
shall be provided by the rules of the said Corrts
respectively"
u. W. CAMPBELL,
Speaker OF the House,
JNO. NJ. MENDINHALL,
President of the Senate
Approved March Twentieth Nineteen Hundrsd
SIMEON s. PENNEwILL,
/. Charles S. Richards, Secretary of state of th
! above and foregoing is true and correct cony of
House Bill No is. entitled An Act proposino
certain Amendments to Article " of the Consti
tuition of this State, relating to the ur,nhar
OF Judges constituting a quorum i'll the Superior
Court, the Court of General Sessions and thq
Court of oyer and Terminer, the sessions of said
courts, and the distribution of the business there
/ in respectively" as the same appears ON tha an
rolled Bill filed in the office OF the SeCretary Of
State, and approved by the Governor March
twentieth, A. ID. l9li which said Bill proposing
such Amendment to the Constitution of this state
is published i'll accordance with the reuuiremetns
of the Constitution OF the State.
in TESTIMONY WHEREOF, | have
hereunto set my hand and official seal
lL.s.l at Dover, this twenty-third day Of
July, III the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twelve
CHARLES S. RICHARDS
| Secretary OF State.