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and determine appeals from the three superior courts, 

 but to receive no original causes, except in the cases 

 expressly permitted herein. 



A majority of the members of either of these courts, 

 and not fewer, sliall be a quorum. But in the Court of 

 Appeals nine members shall be necessary to do busi- 

 ness. Any smaller numbers however may be author- 

 ized by the legislature to adjourn their respective 

 courts. 



They shall be allowed for the present 

 each by the year, payable quarterly out of any money 

 which shall be in the public treasury. Their salaries 

 however may be increased or abated, fronj time to time, 

 at the discretion of the legislature, provided such in- 

 crease or abatement shall not by any ways or means, 

 be njade to affect, either then, or at any future time, 

 any one of those then actually in office. At the end of 

 each quarter their salary shall be divided into equal 

 portions by the number of days on which, during that 

 quarter, their respective courts sat, or should have sat, 

 and one of these portions shall be withheld from each 

 member for every of the said days, which, without 

 cause allowed good by his court, he failed to attend, or 

 departed before adjournment without their leave. If 

 no court should have been held during the quarter, 

 there shall be no deduction. 



There shall moreover be a Court of Impeachments to 

 consist of three members of the Council of State, one 

 of each of the superior Courts of Chancery, Common 

 Law, and Admiralty, two members of the house of de- 

 legates and one of the Senate, to be chosen by the body 

 respectively of which they are. Before this 'court any 

 member of the three branches of government, that is to 

 say, the governor, any member of the council, of the 

 two houses of legislature, or of the superior courts, may 

 be impeached by the governor, the council, or either of 

 the said houses or courts, and by no other, for such 

 misbehaviour in office as would be sufficient to remove 

 him therefrom; and the only sentence they shall have 

 authority to pass shall be that of deprivation and future 



