RESOLUTION Relative to as ,amendment Of the Constitution. • ./i'ese/ea bir — the.! .SCltOte eft House of RepreaudatioesicttAe.,Cornmonwealth of pernuevimia •in General .assembly met, That the,Gonstitution of this Commonwealth be amenad in the second section of the,fifth article, sortbat it shall read as follows : The Judges ofithe SupreMe Court, of the several Courts of Common Pleas, and of such other Courts of Record as are or shall be establish ,, ed by law, shall be elected by the qualified electors of the Commonwealth in the manner following,to wit : The Judges ofthe Supreme Court, by the qualified electors of the Coln.: monwealth at large: The President Judges of the several Courts of Common Pleas and of Such other Courts of Record as are or shall be established by law, and all other Judges required to be learned in the law, by the qualified electors. of the respective districts over which they are to preside or act as Judges. And the Associate Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas by the qual ified electors of the counties respectively. The Judges of the Supreme Court shall hold their offices for the term of fifteen years, if they shall•sp long behave themselves well: (subject to the allotment hereinafter , provid ed for, subsequent to the first election :) The President Judges of the several Courts of Common Pleas, and of such other courts of Record as are or shall be established by law, and all other Judges required to he learned in the law, shall hold their offices for the term of ten : years, if they shall se long be have themselves well : The Associate Judg es of the Courts of Common Pleas shall hold their offices for the term of live years, if they shall so long behave themselves well: allot whom shall be commissioned by the Gover nor, but for any. reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient grounds of impeach ment, the Governor shall remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of each branch of the Legislature. The first eke tion shall take place at the general election of this Commonwealth next aftdr the adop tion of this amendment, and the commis sions of all the judges who may be then in office shall expire on the first Monday of December following, when the terms of the new judges shall commence. The persons who shall then be elected Judges of the Su preme Court shall hold their offices as fel lows : one of them for three years, one for six years, one for nine years, one for twelve , years, and one for fifteen years the term of each to be decided by lot by .the said judges, , as soon after the election as convenient, and the result certified by them to the Governor, that the commissions may be issued ill ac cordance thereto. The judge whose com mission will first expire shall be Chief Jus tice during his term, and thereafter each judge whose commission shall first expire shall in turn be the Chief Justice, and if twe or more commissions shall, expire on the Same day, the judges holding them shall de cide by lot which shall be the Chief Justice. Any vacancies happening by death, resig nation or otherwise, in any of the said courts, shall be filled by appointment by the Gov ernor, to continue till the first Monday of December succeeding the next general elec tion. The Judges of the Supreme Court and the Presidents of the several Courts of Common Pleas shall, at stated times, receive for their services an adequate compere ation, to be fixed by law, which shall not be dimin ished during their continuance in office, bat they shall receive no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold any other office of profit tin der this Commonwealth, or under the gov ernment of the United States, or any other State of this Union. The Judges of the Su preine Court during their continuance in office shall reside within this Commonwealth. and the other Judges during their coutinu ance in office shall reside within the dis trict or county for which they were respect tively elected. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Speaker of Ike House of Representatives GEORGE DARSIE, Sptaker of the Senate iN THE SENATE, March 1, 1849. Resolved, That this resolution pass,—Yeas 21, Nays S. Extract from the Journal. SAIVIL.' W. PEARSON, Clerk. IN THE HOWIE OF REPUESENTATITER, April 2, 1840. Resolved, That this resolution pass.—Yeas 59, Nays 26. Extract from the Journal. WM. JACK, Clerk•. . _ Filed, April 5, 1849. A. L. RUSSEL, Dep. Secretary of the Commonwealth. _ Pennsylvania, ss I. DO CERTIFY that the-above and foregoing is a two and correct copy of the Original Resolution .of the General Assembly, entit led "Resolution relative to an Amendment of the Constitution," as the same remains on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have 4 . (I:CA hereunto set my hand, and cans ed to be aflixe . d• the seal of. the 7- ; ;LF Secretary's Office at Harrisburg, this eleventh day of June, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. _ TOWNSEND HAINES, Secretary of the Commontocallh. "JOURNAL OF SENATE." "Resolution, No. 188, entitled “Resolu-' thin relative to an amend ment.of the Consti tution," was read a third time. On the ques tion, will the Senate agree to the resolutionl The Yeas and Nays were taken agreeably to the COnstitution, and were as follows, viz :" "YRAs—Messrs. Mai, Brawley, Crnbb, Cunningham, Forsyr, liugus, Johnson, Lawrence;.Levis, Ma on, Matthias, M'Can lin;Rich, Richards, Sadler, Sankey, Savery, Small, Smyser, Sterett and Stine-21." “ISTATs-Messrs. Best, Drum, Frick, Ives, Uing, ,Konjgmacher, Potteiger