diction as may be provided by law. It shall hold at least one term in each year at the seat of government, and such other terms, there or elsewhere, as may be provided by law. The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by the electors of the state at large, for such term, not less than five years, as the General Assembly may prescribe, and they shall be elected and their official term shall begin at such time as may be fixed by law. In case the General Assembly shall increase the number of such judges, the first term of each of such additional judges shall be such, that in each year after their first election, an equal number of judges of the supreme court shall be elected, except in elections to fill vacancies; and whenever the number of such judges shall be increased, the General Assembly may authorize such court to organize divisions thereof, not exceeding three, each division to consist of an equal number of judges; for the adjudication of cases, a majority of each division shall constitute a quorum, and such an assignment of the cases to each division may be made as such court may deem expedient, but whenever all the judges of either division hearing a case shall not concur as to the judgment to be rendered therein, or whenever a case shall involve the constitutionality of an act of the General Assembly or of an act of congress, it shall be reserved to the whole court for adjudication. The judges of the supreme court in office when this amendment takes effect, shall continue to hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified.

SEC. 6. The circuit court shall have like original jurisdiction with the supreme court, and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided by law. Such courts shall be composed of such number of judges as may be pro

vided by law, and shall be held in each county at least once in each year. The number of circuits, and the boundaries thereof, shall be prescribed by law. Such judges shall be elected in each circuit by the electors thereof, and at such time and for such term as may be prescribed by law, and the same number shall be elected in each circuit. Each judge shall be competent to exercise his judicial powers in any circuit. The General Assembly may change, from time to time, the number of boundaries of the circuits. The circuit courts shall be the successors of the district courts, and all cases, judgments, records, and proceedings pending in said district courts, in the several counties of any district, shall be transferred to the circuit courts in the several counties, and be proceeded in as though said district courts had not been abolished, and the district courts shall continue in existence until the election and qualification of the judges of the circuit court.

And be it further resolved, that at said election, the voters desiring to vote in favor of said amendment, shall have placed upon their ballots the words, "Judicial Constitutional Amendment - Yes;" and the voters who do not favor the adoption of said amendment, may have placed upon their ballots the words, "Judicial Constitutional Amendment - No;" and if a majority of all the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of said amendment, then said sections one, two and six herein set forth shall be and constitute the sections so amended and said judicial article (four) of the Constitution of the state of Ohio, and said original sections one, two and six, and also sections five and eleven of said article shall be repealed and annulled."

45 Laws of Ohio, vol. lxxx, 382.- ED.

AMENDMENT CHANGING FALL ELECTION

TO NOVEMBER, 1885

(Submitted as three separate propositions)

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, March 25, 1885. Submitted to electors, October 13, 1885.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that propositions to amend section two of article two, section one of article three, and section two of article ten of the Constitution of Ohio, shall be submitted to the electors of this state, on the second Tuesday of October, A.D. 1885, to read as follows:

ARTICLE II

SEC. 2. Senators and representatives shall be elected biennially by the electors of the respective counties or districts, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November; their term of office shall commence on the first day of January next thereafter, and continue two years.

ARTICLE III

SECTION 1. The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, and attorney-general, who

shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, by the electors of the state and at the places of voting for members of the general assembly. ARTICLE X

SEC. 2. County officers shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, by the electors of each county, in such manner and for such term, not exceeding three years, as may be provided by law."

46 Laws of Ohio, vol. lxxxii, 449.- ED.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT - TOWN

SHIP OFFICERS, 1885

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, April

9, 1885. Submitted to electors, October 13, 1885.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio (three-fifths of all members elected to each house concurring therein), that there shall be submitted to the electors of the state, on the second Tuesday of October, A.D. 1885, a proposition to amend section four of article ten of the Constitution of the state, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. Township officers shall be elected by the electors of each township at such time, and in such manner, and for such term, not exceeding three years, as may be provided by law; but shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified."

47 Laws of Ohio, vol. lxxxii, 449. — ED.