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. Upon every occurrence or recurrence of a vacancy
through death, resignation, removal, disqualification by reason
of age or otherwise, or expiration of the term of fifteen years
of any judge, or creation of the office of any judge, or in any
other way, the Governor shall appoint a person duly qualified
to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the election and
qualification of his successor. His successor shall be elected at
the first biennial general election for Representatives in Con-
gress after the expiration of the term of fifteen years (if the
vacancy occurred in that way) or the first such general election
after one year after the occurrence of the vacancy in any other
way than through expiration of such term. Except in case of
reappointment of a judge upon expiration of his term of
fifteen years, no person shall be appointed who will become
disqualified by reason of age and thereby unable to continue
to hold office until the prescribed time when his successor
would have been elected.

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

** This amendment was submitted by Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1943 and ratified by the
people in November, 1944..