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 Assem-
bly, 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 November
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 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 Gen-
eral 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
perquisites, 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.

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 presentments
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 proceedings, that such party can
not have a fair and impartial trial in the court in which the same

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