6. This is vested in a supreme court of errors, a superior court, and such inferior courts as the gene , ral assembly may from time to time establish.
The only courts of general jurisdiction at present are the supreme court of errors and the superior court. No person can hold a judicial office after the age of seventy.
The Supreme Court of Errors is held by four judges. The present judges hold office during good behavior. Judges hereafter elected will haid office for eight years. They are eleoted by the general assembly. This court has final and conclu sive jurisdiction of all actions brought before it, by way of complaint or error, from judgments of su perior courts, and may carry into complete execu tion all judgments and decrees.
The Superior Court is composed of five judges, elected by the general assembly for the. term of eight years. One of their number is by themselves selected annually as chief justice., It has jurisdic tion of petitions for change of name, and has a su pervisory power over the county commissioners in regard to the county funds. It has all the powers formerly exercised by the county court which were not transferred to the county commissioners. This
court is to decide all questions of law, excepting those arising on motion for a new trial, writs of error, or motions in error, which, and no others, are to be received for the supreme court.
7. County Commissioners, three in number in each county, are appointed annually by the general assembly. . They have power to remove deputy sheriffs, enter upon county lands, levy county 'taxes, take care of the highways, and administer the poor. debtor's oath ; are to exercise exclusively all the powers formerly oxercised by the county courts which relate to the process of forcible entry and detainer, the courts of review for settlement of es tates by the probate court, and the appointment of the county treasurers and surveyors.
Probate Courts are .held, in the districts into which the state is divided for this purpose, by judges elected by the people Of the district.
Justices of the Peace are elected annually, on the first Monday of April, by the electors of the several towns.