Smyrna times., 1912-08-21
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 7

An Act proposing certain dmeadments to
article " Of tie Constitution IF the
State, relating TO tie number Of Judges
constituting a quorum IN tie Superior
Court, tie Court Of General Sessions and
tile C0Urt Of oyer and TermjHer, the
sessions 0t' said courts, and tie distTi-
6utton ct' the business therein, respect
tCely.
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 theretO):
Section l. 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 al er the first paragraph thereof and substi-
tuting therefor the following new paragraphs.
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
In each OF the said Courts the Chief Justice when
present shall preside, and IN his absence the sen
lor Associate Judges present shall preside
one shall constitute a quorum in the said
Courts, respectively except in the Court of oyer
ana lermlner, where three shall constitute
quorum, ana except in the Superior Court sitting
TO hear appeals from the Orphans Court or 3
Registers Court, when two shall constitute a
quorum, and except in the Court OF General SEES
slOns sitting to try cases of prosecution under
Section of Article V of this Constitution or sit
ung 70 hear contested applications for license 10
sell intoxicating liquors. when two shall eOnsti-
tute quorum.
Courts"
SectOn2. That Article ~ of the Constitution
OF this State be, and the same is hereby amended
by striking out all of Section thereof and s1bsti
tutlng therefore the following new Section 6.
Section e. Subject to the provisions of Section
OF this Article, two or more sessions of the Su-
peIlor Court: or Court of General Sessions OF one
OF 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 Inc said courts may at the same time be held
IN the same county or in different counties. and
tne business in the several counties may be dis
trlnuted and appOrtiOned in such manner as
shall be provided by the rules of the said cOurts
respectively"
D. w. Campbell.
Speaker of the House
JNO. NJ. MENDINHAII
- President of the Senate.
approved March Twentieth, Nineteen Hundred
and Eleven.
SIMEON S. PENNEwILL.
|, Charles S. Richards Secretary of state of the.
otate OF Delaware, do hereby certify that the,
apove ana foregoing is true and correct copy Of
House BIZ No. As, entitled An Act proposing
certain Amendments TO Article w of the COnsti-
luton OF this State relating to the number of
Judges constituting quorum in the Superior
Court, the Court of General Sessions and the
Court OF Oyer and Terminer the sessions of said
courts, ana the distribution of the business
thereln, respectively" as the same appears on
we enrolledBlll filed in the Office of the Secretary
vi slae. ana approved by the Governor March
twentieth, A. ID. 1911. which said Bill proposin G,
suen Amendment TO the Constitution of tn Is STATE
rs ~ puonshed In accordance with the requirement.
Ol tne constitution of the State.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
| ~ hereuntO set my hand and official
| ia - seal, at Dover, this twenty-third day
oi July in the year of our Lord on e
| thOusand nine hundred and twelve.
| CHARLES S. RICHARDS.
Secretary of State.