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Show CONSTITUTIONAL fT O AMENDMENT l'J' " A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING PRO-POSING TO AMEND SECTION 9, ARTICLE VI, OF THE CONSTITUTION CONSTI-TUTION OF UTAH RELATING TO COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS MEM-BERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Utah, two-thirds of all members elected to each of the two houses voting i. favor thereof: Section 1. That it is proposed to amend Section 9, Article VI, Constitution of the State of Utah, to read. Section 9. The members of the Legislature shall receive such compensation com-pensation and mileage as the Legislature Leg-islature may provide, not exceeding exceed-ing $300.00 per year, End ten cents per mile for the distance necessarily necessar-ily traveled going to and returning from the place of meeting on the most usual route, and they shall receive no other pay or perquisite. Section 2. The secretary of state is hereby directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors of the State of Utah at the next general election in the manner man-ner as provided for by Article 23, Section 1, Constitution of Utah. Section 3. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amendment amend-ment shall take effect the first day of January, 1945. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of Slate of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed pro-posed by the first special session of the 25th Legislature of 1944,-as the same appears of record in my office. In witness whereof, I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Utah, -is 10th day of August, 1944. E. E. MONSON, Secty. of State. Each judge of a district court shall be at least twenty-five years of age, an active member of the bar in good standing, learned in the law, a resident of the state of Utah three years next preceding his selection, se-lection, and shall reside in the district dis-trict for which he shall be selected. Any district judge may hold a district dis-trict court in any county at the. request of the judge of the district, and, upon a request of the governor gover-nor it shall be his duty to do so. Any cause in the district court may be tried by a judge pro tempore, tem-pore, who must be a member of the bar, sworn to try the cause, and agreed upon by the parties, or their attorneys of record. Sec. 6. The legislature may change the limits of any judicial district, or increase or decrease the number of districts, or the judges thereof. No alteration or increase shall have the effect of removing a judge from office. In every additional district established, establish-ed, a judge or judges shall be selected as provided in section 3 of this article. Sec. 12. The judges of the supreme su-preme and district courts shall receive re-ceive at stated times compensation for their services, which shall not be increased or diminished during the time for which they are selected. se-lected. Section 3. The secretary o f state is directed to submit this proposed amendment to the electors elec-tors of the state of Utah at the next general election in the manner man-ner as provided for by article 23, section I, Constitution of Utah. Section 4. If adopted by the electors of the state, this amendment amend-ment shall take effect the first day of January next succeeding a determination by the board of state canvassers of the result of the election elec-tion designated in Section 3 hereof. I, E. E. Monson, Secretary of State of the State of Utah, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true, and correct copy of the constitutional amendment proposed pro-posed by the regular session of the 25th Legislature of 1943, as the same appears of record in my office. of-fice. In witness whereof, I have hereunto here-unto stt my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Utah, this 10th day of August, 1944. E. E. MONSON, Secty. of State. |