The supreme court shall make and adopt rules not inconsist- Rules. ent with law for the government of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal and of the officers thereof, and for regulating the practice in said courts. judicial SEC. 10. Justices of the supreme court, and of the district Removal of courts of appeal, and judges of the superior courts may be officers. removed by concurrent resolution of both houses of the legislature adopted by a two-thirds vote of each house. All other judicial officers, except justices of the peace, may be removed by the senate on the recommendation of the governor; but no removal shall be made by virtue of this section unless the cause thereof be entered on the journal, nor unless the party complained of has been served with a copy of the complaint against him and shall have had an opportunity of being heard in his defense. On the question of removal the ayes and noes shall be entered on the journal. record. SEC. 12. The supreme court, the district courts of appeal, Courts of the superior courts, and such other courts as the legislature shall prescribe, shall be courts of record. tion of SEC. 16. The legislature shall provide for the speedy pub- Publicalication of such opinions of the supreme court and of the opinions. district courts of appeal as the supreme court may deem expedient, and all opinions shall be free for publication by any person. justices. SEC. 17. The justices of the supreme court and of the dis- Salaries of trict courts of appeal, and the judges of the superior court shall severally, at stated times during their continuance in office, receive for their services such compensation as is or shall be provided by law, which shall not be increased or diminished after their election, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected. The salaries of the justices of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal shall be paid by the One half of the salary of each superior court judge shall be paid by the state; the other half thereof shall be paid by the county for which he is elected. to any SEC. 18. The justices of the supreme court, and of the dis- Ineligible trict courts of appeal, and the judges of the superior courts other office shall be ineligible to any other office or public employment than a judicial office or employment during the term for which they shall have been elected. and clerks. SEC. 21. The supreme court may appoint a reporter and Reporters not more than three assistant reporters of the decisions of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal. Each of the district courts of appeal shall appoint its own clerk. All the officers herein mentioned shall hold office and be removable at the pleasure of the courts by which they are severally appointed, and they shall receive such compensation as shall be prescribed by law, and discharge such duties as shall be prescribed by law, or by the rules or orders of the courts by which they are severally appointed. Eligibility SEC. 23. No one shall be eligible to the office of a justice of the supreme court, or of a district court of appeal, or of a judge of judges. Time limit for rendering decisions. Commission abolished. of a superior court, unless he shall have been admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state. SEC. 24. No judge of the supreme court nor of a district court of appeal, nor of a superior court, shall draw or receive any monthly salary unless he shall make and subscribe an affidavit before an officer entitled to administer oaths, that no cause in his court remains pending and undecided, that has been submitted for decision for a period of ninety days. In the determination of causes all decisions of the supreme court and of the district courts of appeal shall be given in writing, and the grounds of the decision shall be stated. When the justices of a district court of appeal are unable to concur in a judgment, they shall give their several opinions in writing and cause copies thereof to be forwarded to the supreme court. SEC. 25. The present supreme court commission shall be abolished at the expiration of its present term of office, and no supreme court commission shall be created or provided for after January 1st, A. D. 1905. Amend ment of codes. CHAPTER XXXIX. Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 26-A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California, an amendment to Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California by adding a new section thereto to be numbered Section 24 of Article IV, relating to the power of the legislature to amend existing codes. [Adopted March 14, 1903.] Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature of the State of California at its regular session commencing on the fifth day of January, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and three, two thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses, voting in favor thereof, hereby proposes that Article IV of the Constitution of the State of California be amended by adding a new section thereto to be numbered Section 24 of Article IV as follows: Section 24. The legislature may amend, revise and re-enact as a whole any one of the existing codes in a single act expressing that purpose in its title. This shall not be done in respect to the same code more than once in twelve years. CHAPTER XL. Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 14, relative to the consent of the legislature to absence from the state of Assemblymen John G. Mattos Jr., Grove L. Johnson, and William H. Waste, John Goodrich, and Thomas J. Kirk, superintendent of public instruction, for a period not to exceed six months. [Adopted March 14, 1903.] absence of Grove L. Wm. H. rich, and Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the Leave of legislature of the State of California has consented, and does John G. hereby consent, that Assemblymen John G. Mattos Jr. of the Mattos Jr., forty-sixth assembly district, Grove L. Johnson of the seven- Johnson, teenth assembly district, and William H. Waste of the fifty- waste, second assembly district, John Goodrich, and Thomas J. Kirk, John Good superintendent of public instruction, may, and each may, Thomas J. depart from the State of California at any time during the remainder of their, or his, official term as assemblymen, and remain absent from the State of California for a period not to exceed six months from and immediately following the time of his departure. Kirk. |