year of his office, and the Governor shall declare the same
vacant, and the vacancy therein shall be filled as in case of
vacancy for any other cause, and such officer shall be sub-
ject to suit by the State for the amount that ought to be paid
into the Treasury; and no person holding any office created
by or existing under this Constitution or laws of the State,
or holding any appointment under any court in this State,
shall receive more than three thousand dollars a year as a
compensation for the discharge of his official duties, except
in cases specially provided in this Constitution.

SEC. 2. The several courts existing in this State at the
time of the adoption of this Constitution shall, until super-
seded under its provisions, continue with like powers and
jurisdiction, and in the exercise thereof, both at law and in
equity, in all respects, as if this Constitution had not been
adopted; and when said courts shall be so superseded, all
causes then depending in said courts shall pass into the
jurisdiction of the several courts, by which they may be re-
spectively superseded.

SEC. 3. The Governor and all officers, civil and military,
now holding office under this State, Whether by election or
appointment, shall continue to hold, exercise and discharge
the duties of their offices (unless inconsistent with or other-
wise provided in this Constitution), until they shall be su-
perseded under its provisions, and until their successors
shall be duly qualified.

SEC. 4. If at any election directed by this Constitution,
any two or more candidates shall have the highest and an
equal number of votes, a new election shall be ordered by
the Governor, except in cases specially provided for by this
Constitution.

SEC. 5. In the trial of all criminal cases, the jury shall
be the judges of law, as well as of fact.

SEC. 6. The right of trial by jury of all issues of fact in
civil proceedings in the several courts of law in this State,
where the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of five dol-
lars, shall be inviolably preserved. .

SEC. 7. All general elections in this State shall be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, in the year in which they shall occur; and the first
election of all officers, who, under this Constitution, are re-
quired to be elected by the people, shall, except in cases
herein specially provided for, be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven.