Newark post., 1912-10-30
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Constitutional Amendment.

An Act proposing certain amendments to
Article Nv of the Constitution 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, and the
distribution of the business therein,
respectively.
BE ii enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
rcseutativcs of the State of Delaware in General
Assembly met Uwo-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 striking out all of said Sec
tion after the first paragraph thereof and substitute
ting therefor the following paragraph, t0-,vit:
The said five Judges shall designate those of
their number who shall hold the said Courts in
the several Counties. NOmorc than three OF them
shall sit together in any OF the said Courts. In
present shall preside, and i'll his absence the
senior Associate Judges present shall preside.
one shall Constitute Quorum i'll the said Courts,
respectively, except i'll the Court of oyer and Ter
miner, where three shall constitute quorum. aud
/ except in the Superior Court sitting TO hear
appeals from the Orphans Court or a Registers
Court, when two shall constitute quorum. and
except i'll the Court of General Sessions sitting to
try cases OF prosecution under Section OF Article
OF this Constitution or sitting 10 hear contested
applications for license to sell Intoxicating luu-
ors, when two shall constitute Quorum.
one judge may open and adjourn any OF said
Courts"
Section ;. That Article " of the Constitution
of the State be, and the same is hereby amended
by striking out all of Section thereof and s,bsti-
tuting therefor the following new Section 3. to
wit: s..,,..,
ton of this Article, two more sessions of the
Superior Court or Court of General Sessions, or
more SESSIONS oil each of the said Courts
Session of the Court of oyer and Terirlii,er
and one two OF either, one of each of the
other OF the said courts may at the time he
r held i'll the same county or i'll different Counties
and the business i'll the several counties may be
distributed and apportioned i'll such manner as
shall be provided by the rules of the said courts
respectively"
ID. w. CAMPBELL,
Speaker of the House;
> JNO. NJ. MENDINHALL,
, President of the Senate.
! Approved March Twentieth Nineteen Hundred
l and Eleven.
S SIMEON S. PFNNEWILL.
Governor.
|, 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
S certain Amendments to Article " of the Corst
n tuition OF this State, relating to the number
of Judges constituting quorum in the Superior
,. Court, the Court of General Sessions and the
Il Court of oyer and Termner, the sessions of sale
,, courts, and the distribution of the business there
- n respectively" as the same appears OIL the en-
" rolled Bill filed i'll the office of the Secretary o
State, and approved by the Governor, Marcl
t. twentieth A. ID. 1911, which said Bill proposini
,t such Amendment to the Constitution of this Stat
~ is published i'll accordance with the requirement
of the Constitution ot the State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, | hav
hereunto set my hand and official seal
ne I..S.l at Dover this twenty-thrd day c
as July, i'll the year OF Our Lord on
II thousand nine hundred and twelve.
u CHARLES ). RICHARDS.
~ Secretary OF State.