Smyrna times., 1912-09-04
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

an act proposing certain amendments to
article ~ If the Constitution Of this
State, relating to tile H2rlR6er 0f Judge
constituting a quorum IN the SUpeT1OT
Court, tie Court of General Sessions and
the Court Of Oyer and T'erminer, the
sessions Of said courts, and the dtStTl-
6utiOR Of tie business tteretR, respect
icely
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 therefor
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
ton afer the first paragraph thereof and substi
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
III 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 said
courts, respectively except in the Court of over
and Terminer where three shall constitute 3
quorum, ana except in the Superior Court sitting
t. hear appeals from the Orphans Court OF a
Registers Court. when two shall constitute a
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 10
sell intoxicating liquors, when two shall cOnsu
tute quorum.
= one Judge may open and adjourn any of said
Courts"
secuon2. That Article " of the Constitution
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 {,
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
| ot the sai1 courts may at the same time be held
N the same county or in different counties. and
me business in the several counties may be dis
| tiibuted and apportiOned in such manner as
snail oe provided by the rules of the said cOurtS
respectively"
D. W. CAMPBELL,
Speaker of the House
| JNO. NJ MENDINHALI.
President of the Senate
| approved March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred
SIMEON s. PENNEwIL.L,
! Governor.
|, Charles s. Richards, Secretary of state of the
| S,ate oil Delaware, do hereby certify that the
9nOve and ioregoiog is a true and correct copy Of
| House Bill No. As, entitled IAN Act proposing
/ certain Amendments to Article ~ of the COnSii-
| tuition of this State, relating TO the number Of
! Judges constituting a quorum in the Superior
OOurt, the Court of General Sessions and the
Court OF Oyer and Terminer the sessions of said
sourS, and the distribution of the business
.nereln respectively, as the same appears on
the enroledBill filed in the Office OF the Secretary
Oh STATE. and approved by the Governor March
| tNehuelh A. ID. 1911, which said Bill prop Osing
sueh Amenument 10 the Constitution OF IL is state
rs published in accordance with the reQuiremeniS
| OF the Constitution Of the State
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
/ hereunto set my hand and official
L. 81 seal, at Dover thii twenty-third day
ofJuly, in the yedr of our Lord one
4 thousand nine hundred and twelve
CHARLES 4. RICHARDS,
Secretary of State.