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expire as follows: The commissions of one-half of tliosf who shall ha%v 

 held their offices ten years or more at the adoption of the amendments to 

 the constitution, shall expire on the twentv-scventh dav of l<\.],ruary 

 1839; the commissions of the other half of thos." who shall have held 

 their offices ten years or more, at the adoption of the amendments to the 

 constitution, shall expire on the twenty-seventh day of February 1842 ; 

 the first half to embrace those whose commissions shall bear the oldest 

 date. The commissions of all the remaining judges, who shall not have 

 held their offices for ten years at the adoption of the amendments to the 

 constitution, shall expire on the twenty-seventh day of February next, 

 after the end of ten years from the date of their commissions. 



VIII. The recorders of the several mayors' courts, and other criminal 

 courts in this commonwealth, shall be appointed for the same time and 

 in the same manner as the president judges of the several judicial dis- 

 tricts ; of those now in office, the commission oldest in date shall expire 

 on the twenty-seventh day of February 1841, and the others every two 

 years thereafter, according to their respective dates ; those oldest in date 

 expiring first. 



IX. The legislature, at its first session under the amended constitution, 

 shall divide the other associate judges of the State into four classes. The 

 commissions of those of the first class shall expire on the twenty-seventh 

 day of February 1840 ; of those of the second class on the twenty-seventh 

 day of February 1841 ; and of those of third class on the twenty-seventh 

 day of February 1842 ; and of those of the fourth class on the twenty- 

 seventh day of February 1843. The said classes, from the first to the 

 fourth, shall be arranged according to the seniority of the commissions 

 of the several judges. 



X. Prothonotaries, clerks of the several courts (except the supreme 

 court,) recorders of deeds, and registers of wills, shall be first elected, 

 under the amended constitution, at the election of representatives, in the 

 year 1839, in such manner as may be prescribed by law. 



XI. The appointing power shall remain as heretofore, and all officers 

 in the appointment of the executive department, shall continue in the 

 exercise of the duties of their respectiue offices, until the legislature shall 

 pass such, laws as may be required by the eighth section of the sixth 

 article of the amended constitution, and until appointments sljall be made 

 under such laws, unless their commissions shall be superseded b}' new 

 appointments, or shall sooner expire by their own limitations, or the 

 said offices shall become vacant by death or resignation; and such laws 

 shall be enacted by the first legislature under the amended constitution. 



XII. The first election for aldermen and justices of the peace shall be 

 held in the year 1840, at the time fixed for the election of constables. 

 The legislature, at its first session under the amended constitution, shall 



