Smyrna times., 1912-10-16
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

An. Act proposing certain amendments to
article ~ Of the Constitution Of this
state, relating to the number Of .J1t0EQes
C0flStttut5ng a quorum IN tie Superior
Court, the Court Of General Sessions and
Ue Court Of Oyer and T'erminer, tie
Sess!0'ls Of SAID courts, and the dSstri-
oItson Of the business therein, respect
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the state of Delaware in General
assembly met gtwO-thirds of all the members
eiected 70 each house agreeing thereto):
Section l. That section of Article " of the
constitution of this state be, and the same is,
nereoy amended by stricking out ali of said Sec
@ @1un al er the hrSt paragraph thereof and subst-
tO-wit 4''
The said five Judges shall designate those of
tneir 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 Courtg
In each Of the said Courts the Chief Justice when
present snail preside, and IN his absence the SEN
lor Associate Judges present shall preside
= One snail constitute quorum in the said
courts respectively. except in the Court of Oyer
ana Iermlner, where three shall constitute a
quorum, ana except in the Superior Court sitting
70 hear appeals from the Orphans Court or
Registers Court, when two shall constitute a
quorum, ana except in the Court of General Ses-
slOns sitting to try cases of prosecution under
section of Article V of this Constitution or sit
ung 10 hear contested applications for license to
sell intoxicating liquors. when two shall cOnsti-
tute quorum.
Courts :
Section2. That Article " of the Cons,i,ntio,
OF this Stale be, and the same is, hereby amended
by striking out all of Section thereof and substi-
tutlng therefore the following new Section G.
tO-wit:
Section 6. Subject to the provisions of Section
OF this Article, two or more sessions of the Su-
perlor 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 Terminer and
one or two of either, or one of each of the other
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 be dis
trlputeG and appOrtiOned in such manner as
shall be provided by the rules of the said courts
respectively"
D. W. CAMPBELL,
Speaker of the House.
JN0. NJ. MENDINHALL
President of the Senate
Approved March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred
and Eleven
SIMEON S. PENNEwILL.
1. Charles S. Richards, Secretary of state of the
State of Delaware, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a 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 of
judges constituting a quorum in the Superior
Court, the Court Of General Sessions and the
Court Of oyer and Terminer, the sessions of said
courts aud the distribution of the business
therein, respectively" as the same appears on
the enrOlledBill filed in the Office OF the Secretary
of state and approved by the Governor March
twentieth, A. D. 1911. which said Bill proposing
such Amendment to the Constitution OF tEiss State
is published in accordance with the requirements
OF the Constitution of the State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, l have
hereunto set my hand and official
L. s. seal, at Dover this twenty-third day
of July, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and twelve.
CHARLES S. RICHARDS,
Secretary of State.