may think fit, not to exceed the term for which he was elected,
by a resolution to be passed at the session next preceding his
attaining said age. In case of the inability of any of said
judges to discharge his duties with efficiency, by reason of
continued sickness, or of physical or mental infirmity, it
shall be in the power of the General Assembly, two-thirds of
the members of each House concurring, with the approval of
the Governor, to retire such. judge from office.

SEC. 4. Any judge shall be removed from office by the
Governor, on conviction in a court of law of incompetency,
of wilful neglect of duty, misbehavior in office or any other
crime, or on impeachment, according to this Constitution, or
the laws of the State; or on the address of the General As-
sembly, two-thirds of each House concurring in such address,
and the accused having been notified of the charges against
him, and having had opportunity of making his defence.

SEC. 5. After the election for judges, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, there shall be held in this State, in every fifteenth year
thereafter, on the Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
ber of such year, an election for judges as herein provided;
and in case of death, resignation, removal or disqualification
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 mem-
bers 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 elec-
tion 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 term; 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 con-
servators of the peace throughout the State; and no fees, or
prequisites, commission or reward of any kind, shall be al-
lowed 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 connected
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.

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