Provisions
XXIV of 1777 • Officers' commissions; terms of judicial officers.
APPROVED
The Text
That all military officers be appointed during pleasure; that all commissioned officers, civil and military, be commissioned by the governor; and that the chancellor, the judges of the supreme court, and first judge of the county court in every county, hold their offices during good behavior, or until they shall have respectively attained the age of sixty years.
A Few Facts
• Joined the Constitution in 1777
• In Article XXIV:
• Has 58 words
• Was proposed by the Constitutional Convention
• Was adopted without a vote
• Is a new addition
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