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 l,aw,
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
State having jurisdiction thereof, in addition to the sugges-
tion in writing of cither of the parties to such Presentment

•or Indictment that such party cannot have a fair and impar-
tial trial in the Court in which the same may be pending, it
shall be necessary for the party making such suggestion to
make it satisfactorily appear to the Court that such sugges-
tion is true, or that there is reasonable ground for the
same; and thereupon the said Court shall order and direct
the Record of Proceedings in such Presentment or Indict-
ment to be transmitted to some other Court having jurisdic-
tion in such cases for trial; and such right of removal shall
exist upon suggestion in cases when all the Judges of said

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