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provided; and in cage of death, resignation, removal or dis-
qualification by reason of age or otherwise of any Judge,
the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified to fill
said office, who shall hold the same until the next General
Election for members of the General Assembly, when a
successor shall be elected, whose term of office shall be the
same as hereinbefore provided, and upon the expiration of
the term of fifteen years for which any Judge may be
elected to fill a vacancy, an election for his successor shall
take place at the next General Election for members of the
General Assembly to occur upon or after the expiration of
his said terms; and the Governor shall appoint a person
duly qualified to hold said office from the expiration of such
term of fifteen years until the election and qualification of
his successor. *

SEC. 6. All Judges shall, by virtue of their offices, be
Conservators of the Peace throughout the State; and no
fees, or perquisites, commission, or reward of any kind,
shall be allowed to any Judge in this State, besides his
annual salary, for the discharge of any Judicial duty.

SEC. 7. No Judge shall sit in any case wherein he may
be interested, or where either of the parties may be con-
nected with him, by affinity or consanguinity, within such
degrees as now are or may hereafter be prescribed by Law,
or where he shall have been of counsel in the case.

SEC. 8, The parties to any cause may submit the same to
the Court for determination, without the aid of a jury; and
in all suits or actions at law, issues from the Orphans' Court
or from any Court sitting in Equity, and in all cases of pre-
sentments or indictments for offences which are or may be
punishable by death pending in any of the Courts of Law
of this State having jurisdiction thereof, upon suggestion in
writing under oath of either of the parties to said proceed-
ings, that such party cannot have a fair and impartial trial
in the Court in which the same may be pending, the said
Court shall order and direct the Record of Proceedings in
such Suit or Action, Issue, Presentment or Indictment, to
be transmitted to some other Court having jurisdiction in
such case, for trial; but in all other cases of Presentment
or Indictment pending in any of the Courts of Law in this

*Thus amended by Act of 1880, ch. 417, ratified by the people at
November election, 1881.