Opinion of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Under the provisions of the Constitution, Art. YI, § 3, His Excellency, the Governor, asked the opinion of the court as to the ’ true construction to be given to § 7 of that article as amended. The facts upon which the question arose appear in the subjoined correspondence.
1Opinion of the Court
Hos. John Appleton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of State of Maine.
Sir. — I respectfully request that you give the opinion of the justices of the supreme judicial court upon the following facts:
At the September election of 1868, Joseph Bartlett, Esq., was elected Register of Probate for Penobscot county for four years, and on the first day of January following entered upon the duties of his office. On the first day of April, 1870, he deceased, and on the ninth day of April, 1870, Ambrose C. Flint was appointed by tlie governor Register of Probate to fill the vacancy until the *602fi…
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- Meredith, ex parteSupreme Court of Virginia · 1880
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