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preme Court and the Presidents of the several Courts of common Pleas 

 shall, at stated times, receive, for their services, an adequate compensation 

 to be fixed by law, which shall not be diminished during their continuance 

 in office; but they shall receive no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold 

 any other office of profit under this commonwealth. 



Section III. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court shall extend over 

 the State, and the Judges thereof shall, by virtue of their offices, be 

 Justices of Oyer and Terminer and general Gaol delivery in the several 

 counties. 



Section IV. Until it shall be otherwise directed by law, the several 

 courts of Common Pleas shall be established in the following manner : 

 The Governor shall appoint, in each county, not fewer than three nor 

 more than four Judges, who, during their continuance in office, shall 

 reside in such county: The State shall be divided by law into circuits, 

 none of which shall include more than six, nor fewer than three, coun- 

 ties : A President shall be appointed of the courts in each circuit, who. 

 during his continuance in office, shall reside therein : The President and 

 Judges, any two of whom shall be a quorum, shall compose the respective 

 Courts of Common Pleas. 



Section V. The Judges of the court of common Pleas, in each county, 

 shall, by virtue of their offices, be Justices of Oyer and Terminer and 

 General Goal Delivery, for the trial of capital and other offenders there- 

 in: Any two of the said Judges, the President being one, shall be a 

 quorum ; but they shall not hold a court of Oyer and Terminer or Gaol 

 Delivery in any County, when the Judges of the Supreme Court, or any 

 of them shall be sitting in the same county. The party accused, as well 

 as the Commonwealth, may, under such regulations as shall be pre- 

 scribed by law, remove the indictment and proceedings, or a transcript 

 thereof into the Supreme Court. 



Section VI. The Supreme Court and the several courts of common 

 Pleas shall, beside the powers heretofore usually exercised by them, 

 have the power of a court of Chancery so far as relates to the perpetu- 

 ating of testimony, the obtaining of evidence from places not within the 

 State, and the care of the persons and estates of those who are non com- 

 potes mentis; And the Legislature shall vest in the said courts such other 

 powers to grant relief in equity as shall be found necessary; and may 

 from time to time, enlarge or diminish those powers, or vest them in such 

 other courts as they shall judge proper for the due administration of justice. 



Section VII. The Judges of the court of common Pleas of each 

 county any two of whom shall be a quorum, shall compose the Court 

 of Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Orphans' Court thereof; and the 

 Register of Wills, together with the said Judges, or any two of them 

 shall compose the Register's Court of each county. 

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