one court or sitting thereof may be held at the same time in each district.

SEC. 5. In each district there shall be elected by the electors at large, by the electors of such district, one judge of the district court, by whom the district courts in such district shall be held, and he shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law. District courts shall be held in each county at least once in every year. The general assembly may increase the number of districts, and may provide for having a judge pro tempore, to hold any court whenever necessary by reason of the failure, disqualification, absence, or sickness of any judge, and the amount of pay allowed a judge pro tempore may be deducted from the salary of any judge whose default causes the necessity of having a pro tempore judge. The times of holding common pleas and district courts shall be fixed by law, but the general assembly may authorize the judges of said courts, respectively, to fix the times of the holding of said courts.

At said election the voters desiring to vote in favor of this 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 be in favor of said amendment, then said sections three and five herein specified, shall be and constitute the sections so numbered in the said "Judicial" article of the Constitution of the state of Ohio; and said original sections three and five shall be repealed.

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PROPOSED REGULATION AND TAXATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC AMENDMENT (First Proposition), 1883

PROPOSED PROHIBITION OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS AMENDMENT (Second Proposition), 1883

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, April

4, 1883. Submitted to electors, October 9, 1883.

FIRST PROPOSITION SECOND PROPOSITION

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, that at the general election to be held on the second Tuesday of October, 1883, there shall be submitted to the electors for their approval or rejection two propositions to amend the Constitution of the state, as follows: FIRST PROPOSITION

"The additional section" in and with section eighteen of the schedule shall be repealed, and there shall be substituted for it the following:

"The general assembly shall regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors so as to provide against the evils resulting therefrom; and its power to levy taxes or assessments thereon is not limited by any provision of this Constitution."

SECOND PROPOSITION

"The additional section" in and with section eighteen of the schedule shall be repealed, and there shall be substituted for it the following:

"The manufacture of and traffic in intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage are forever prohibited; and the general assembly shall provide by law for the enforcement of this provision."

The electors voting in favor of the first of said propositions shall have on their ballots the words, "Regulation and Taxation of Liquor Traffic - Yes;" and those voting in favor of said second proposition shall have on their ballots the words "Prohibition of Intoxicating liquors - Yes."

If either of the two propositions be thus approved by a majority of the electors voting at said election, then the amendment therein proposed shall constitute a separate section of article fifteen of the Constitution."

JUDICIAL CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT, 1883

Proposed by joint resolution of the General Assembly, March 30, 1883. Submitted to the electors, October 9, 1883.

Total vote cast

For amendment

Against amendment

Adopted.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio (three-fifths of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto), that a proposition to amend the Constitution of the state of Ohio be and the same is hereby submitted to the electors of this state at the election to be held on the second Tuesday of October, A.D. 1883, as follows: That sections one, two, and six of article four, entitled “Judicial," be so amended as to read as follows:

ARTICLE IV - JUDICIAL

SECTION 1. The judicial power of the state is vested in a supreme court, circuit courts, courts of common pleas, courts of probate, justices of the peace, and such other courts inferior to the supreme court as the General Assembly may, from time to time establish.

SEC. 2. The supreme court shall, until otherwise provide[d] by law, consist of five judges, a majority of whom competent to sit shall be necessary to form a quorum or to pronounce a decision, except as hereinafter provided. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, mandamus, habeas corpus and procedendo, and such appellate juris

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