A Lieutenant-Governor is also chosen, whose qual ifications, time of election, and term of service are the same as the governor's. He is ex officio presi dent of the senate; and the duties of the governor devolve upon him in the usual contingencies.
A Secretary of State, a Treasurer, an Auditor, an Attorney-General, and a Register of the Land Office, are also chosen by the electors, at the same time, for the term of two years.
The Judicial Power.
6. The Supreme Court consists of three judges, who are elected by the people for the term of six years, and were so classified that one judge goes out of office every two years, and the one holding the shortest term of office under such olassification is chief justice of the court during his term; and so on, in rotation. This court has appellate jurisdiction in cases in chancery, and is consti tuted a court for the correction of errors at law, exercising a supervi control over all the in ferior judicial tribunils throughout the state, hut under such restrictions es the legislature may by law prescribe. The sessions are held at sash times
and places as the law may prescribe.
The District Court is composed of a single judge, who is elected by the people of his district for the term of four years, possessing original jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters arising in his par ticular district; and is a court both of law end equity, which are separate and distinct jurisdic tions. Coast. art. 5, see. 5, 6. The code of proce dure in this state has recently (March, 1860) been revised and modified.
IPSE (Lit.). I (before verbs of first per son) ; thou (before verbs of second person) ; he himself, she herself, he alone, etc. ; the very one : e.g. ipsum corpus, the very thing itself. Halkerst. Tech. Terms. Ipso [de nim] leges cupiunt ut jure regantur, for the very laws themselves wish that they should be ruled by right,--a line, quoted from Cato, which occurs in the decision of Ch. J. Wray and the whole court in The Case of Bankrupts, 2 Coke, 25 b.