High Sheriffs and Coroners of counties shall be annually
elected by those qualified to vote for representatives: and no person
who shall have served as high sheriff [one] year shall be capable of
being re-elected to the said office in the same county till he shall
have been out of office [five] years.
Other Officers
All other Officers civil and military shall be appointed by the
Administrator; but such appointment shall be subject to the negative
of the Privy council, saving however to the Legislature a power of
transferring to any other persons the appointment of such officers or
any of them.
III. JUDICIARY.
The Judiciary powers shall be exercised
First, by County courts and other inferior jurisdictions:
Secondly, by a General court & a High court of Chancery:
Thirdly, by a Court of Appeals.
County Courts, &c.
The judges of the county courts and other inferior
jurisdictions shall be appointed by the Administrator, subject to the
negative of the privy council. They shall not be fewer than [five]
in number. Their jurisdictions shall be defined from time to time by
the legislature: and they shall be removable for misbehavior by the
court of Appeals.
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