p. 81. Election of judges and of office. § 2288. On the first Monday of June, 1880, there shall Oct. 17, 1878, § 2, be elected three justices of the supreme court, whose terms of office shall commence on the first Monday of July, supreme 1880, and continue, one for six years, one for four years, their terms and one for two years; said terms to be allotted among themselves on the first day of the first regular term of court after their election; and at every general election after the said first Monday in June, 1880, there shall be elected one or more justices of the supreme court to fill any vacancy that may occur by expiration of the term, death, resignation, or removal, and their term of office shall commence on the first Monday in July after their election, and continue for six years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. § 2289. The judges of the supreme court shall each Id., $5. receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, payable salaries of quarterly, and no other allowances for their services, judges. either directly or indirectly. supreme p. 62. § 2290. The state of Oregon shall be divided into six Oct. 24, 1882, § 1, judicial districts, to be constituted as hereinafter pro vided. state divided into six judicial districts. defined. § 2291. The counties of Jackson, Josephine, and Lake 1a., §2. shall constitute the first judicial district; the counties of The districts Douglas, Lane, Coos, Curry, and Benton shall constitute the second judicial district; the counties of Linn, Marion, Polk, Yamhill, and Tillamook shall constitute the third judicial district; the county of Multnomah shall constitute the fourth judicial district; the counties of Washington, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, and Wasco shall constitute the fifth judicial district; the counties of Umatilla, Union, Baker, and Grant shall constitute the sixth judicial district. Nov. 25, 1885, Seventh dis and defined. § 2292. There shall be and hereby is created a judi- 1.19. cial district of the state of Oregon, composed of the counties of Crook, Gilliam, Morrow, and Wasco, which trict created counties are hereby detached from the districts of which they were heretofore parts, and shall hereafter constitute the seventh judicial district. Oct. 17, 1878, $6, p. 82 Election of and their terms of office. § 2293. There shall be elected on the first Monday in June, 1880, a circuit judge in each of the judicial districts circuit judges as they now exist in this state, whose terms of office shall commence on the first Monday in July, 1880, and continue for six years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and at the general election in 1886, and every six years thereafter, there shall be elected a circuit judge in each of the said judicial districts, whose terms of office shall commence on the first Monday in July thereafter, and continue for six years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Oct. 24, 1882, §11, p. 63. Election of sixth district. "As they now exist."- Five judicial districts existed at the time of the passage of this act. The sixth district was created by § 2294, and the seventh by § 2295. Term of office: State v. Ware, 13 Or. 380. § 2294. There shall be elected on the first Monday in June, 1884, a circuit judge in the sixth judicial district, circuit judge of created by this act, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in July, 1884, and continue for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified; and at the general election in 1886, and every six years thereafter, there shall be elected a circuit judge in said sixth judicial district, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in July thereafter, and continue for six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. Nov. 25, 1885, $4, p. 20 Election of Judge of seventh district. Feb. 17, 1885, $1. Additional judge in the § 2295. At the general election in 1886, and every six years thereafter, there shall be elected a circuit judge in said seventh judicial district, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in July thereafter, and continue for six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified; and at the same time, and every two years thereafter, there shall be elected a prosecuting attorney in said seventh judicial district, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday in July thereafter, and continue for two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. § 2296. In addition to the circuit judges now provided for by law, there shall be elected on the first Monfourth district. day of June, 1866, and at the general election every judge in the fourth district. St. 1885, p. 23. six years thereafter, a circuit judge in the fourth judicial Feb. 17, 1885, § 1. district of this state, who shall possess the qualifications Additional prescribed by law for circuit judges, and whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday of July, 1886, and on the same day of the month every six years thereafter, and continue in office six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. § 2297. Each of the judges of the circuit courts in this Feb. 20, 1885, § 1. state [shall] receive an annual salary of three thousand salaries of dollars, payable quarterly, and no other allowance for their services, either directly or indirectly. circuit judges. st. 1885, p. 41 p. 82. Qualifications § 2298. The judges of the supreme and circuit courts Oct. 17, 1878, § 2, shall be citizens of the United States, and shall have resided in the state of Oregon at least three years next of judges. preceding their election or appointment, and the judges of the circuit courts shall be residents of their respective districts at the time of their election or appointment. Oath of office: See constitution of Oregon, art. 7, §§ 10, 21. CHAPTER VI. OF THE CLERK AND REPORTER OF THE SUPREME COURT. § 2299. Clerk or his partner must not act as attorney of supreme court. $2300. Clerk to be reporter of supreme court. P. 47. § 2299. The clerk of the supreme court is prohibited Oct. 24, 1874, §8, during his continuance in office from acting, or having a partner who acts, as an attorney in said court. Clerk or his partner must court. $2 To be court § 2300. In addition to the duties of such clerk as supreme already prescribed by law, he shall be required, and it is hereby made his duty, to prepare and superintend the publications of the decisions of the supreme court of this reporter state, which shall contain a statement of each case reported, the points and authorities made by counsel, with names of counsel on each side of each case, together with a concise syllabus of the points decided by the court, the same to be printed and bound after the style, as near as may be, of the Oregon reports already published. CHAPTER VII. OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. § 2301. District attorney to be elected in each judicial district, term of § 2302. § 2303. office. Term of office, when to commence, how to qualify; oath of. Vacancy, how filled; appointee, how to qualify; power, compensation, and duties of. § 2304. Salary of attorney, how payable; per diem for attendance on grand jury to be paid by county. § 2305. § 2306. District attorneys now in office, term of office of, vacancy therein. § 2307. Partner of, not to appear against the state. § 2301. There shall be elected at the general election, by the qualified electors of the several judicial districts of this state, a district attorney from each of such ditricts, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. § 2302. The term of office of a district attorney shall commence on the first Monday of July next following the election of such attorney, and before entering upon such office the person elected thereto must qualify the for by filing with the secretary of state his certificate of election, with an oath of office indorsed thereon, and subscribed by him, to the effect that he will support the constitution of the United States, of this state, and faithfully and honestly demean himself in office. § 2303. If at any time a vacancy shall happen in the office of district attorney in any district, the governor must appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy until the next general election thereafter, and until his successor is elected and qualified. A person appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of district attorney must qualify in the same manner as a person elected thereto, and shall have the like power and compensation, and perform the same duties. § 2304. A district attorney, during his continuance in office, shall be entitled to appoint a suitable number of deputies in each county, and may, by a written ap pointment file[d] with the clerk of the county, authorize such deputy to attend upon the sittings of the grand jury, and may revoke such appointment at his pleasure. Feb. 25, 1889, The district attorney, during his continuance in office, ... shall be entitled to receive from the state treasury an Salary of disannual salary of five hundred dollars, payable quarterly how payable, as the salaries of other state officers, and for each day's Per diem for attendance of himself or deputy in the circuit court or grand jury. grand jury in any county in his district, he shall receive five dollars, to be paid by the county in which such ser- Per diem to vice is rendered. attendance on be paid by county. $5. neys n w in § 2305. The district attorneys now in office, by the oct. 24, 1864, name and description of prosecuting attorneys, shall hold their offices for the term of two years from the first District attor Monday of July next following the general election at oflice, term of. which they or either of them were elected; and if any vacancy shall happen in any such office before the expi- vacancy. ration of such term, it shall be filled in the manner provided in this chapter. § 2306. The general election at which a district 1a., § 6. attorney must be elected is the election next preceding District the expiration of the term of the then incumbent of such to be elected. office. attorney, when § 1. trict attorney not to appear $2307. It shall not be lawful for any district attorney Oct. 20, 166, within this state, who may have a partner in the practice of law, to suffer such partner to defend causes wherein Partner of disthe state of Oregon is plaintiff and such district attorney against the is the public prosecutor. And it shall be the duty of state. the several judicial officers of this state to prohibit such practice in all cases coming before them respectively in the different courts of this state. § 2312. Library, when open to visitors; secretary to make rules for. § 2313. Election and term of office of librarian. $ 2314. Official undertaking of librarian. $2315. Report of librarian, when made and what to contain. $:316. Salary of librarian; to have custody of books and property; to take special care of same. |