tion established by special statutes, which cannot be increased or diminished during their continuance in office; and are prohibited from receiving, to their own use, any fees or perquisites of office.

CHAPTER III.

PARTICULAR DISQUALIFICATIONS OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS.

SECTION 217. Disqualifications of judges of court of appeals and supreme court.

§ 217. The judges of the court of appeals and of the supreme court, cannot hold another office or public trust; and all votes for any of them, for an elective office, except that of a judge of those or other courts, given by the legislature or the people, are void. They are also prohibited from exercising any power of appointment to public office.

CHAPTER IV.

REMOVAL OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS FROM OFFICE.

SECTION 218. Judges of court of appeals and supreme court, how removed.
219. Other judicial officers, how removed.

220. Removal by legislature, how made.
221. Justices of peace, &c., how removed.

§ 218. The judges of the court of appeals and supreme court may be removed by concurrent resolution of both houses of the legislature, if two-thirds of all the members elected to the assembly, and a majority of all the members elected to the senate, concur therein.

§ 219. All other judicial officers, except justices of the peace, police justices, and the justices of justices' courts in cities, may be removed from office,

1. By the court for the trial of impeachments, upon an impeachment by the assembly, for wilful and corrupt misconduct in office:

2. By the senate, on the recommendation of the governor.

§ 220. No removal can be made by the concurrent resolution of both houses of the legislature, or by the senate on the recommendation of the governor, as provided in the last two sections, unless the cause thereof be entered on the journals, nor unless the party complained of shall have been served with a copy of the complaint against him, and shall have had an opportunity of being heard in his defence. On the question of removal, the ayes and noes must be entered on the journal.

§ 221. Justices of the peace, police justices, and the justices of justices' courts in cities, may be removed by the courts of sessions in their respective counties, after due notice and an opportunity of being heard in their defence, for causes to be stated in the order of removal

CHAPTER V.

INCIDENTAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF JUDICIAL OEFICERS.

SECTION 222. General powers of judges, out of court.

223. Power of a judge to enlarge time.

224. Powers of county judge, in cases of supreme court.

225. Subsequent application to another judge, when prohibited.

226. Effect of violation of last section.

227. Further extension of time, by whom and how granted.

228, 229. Powers of judicial officers, as to conduct of proceedings before

them.

229. Powers of judges of court of appeals and supreme court, in authenticating instruments, and taking affidavits.

230. Powers of other judicial officers in this respect.

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§ 222. A judge may exercise, out of court, all the ers expressly conferred upon a judge as contradistinguished from the court. But when an order has been made in court, it cannot be suspended or affected by the order of a judge out of court.

§223. A judge, upon an affidavit showing cause therefor, may enlarge the time within which any act in an action or special proceeding before him or in his court, must be done, after its commencement and before judgment, except the time within which an appeal must be taken, or may stay proceedings therein, for the purpose of a motion to the court. But the time cannot be enlarged or the proceedings stayed for more than twenty days, except upon previous notice to the adverse party; and a copy of the affidavit must be served with the order, or the order may be disregarded; and no judge, except the one who tried the cause, un'ess he be absent from the county or unable to act, can, after a trial by the court or jury, extend the time for preparing a case,

exceptions or special verdict, or stay proceedings there

on.

224. If the action or pro eeding be in the supreme court, the powers conferred upon a judge of that court by the last two sections, may be exercised by a county judge, in his county, where one of the parties or attorneys reside therein except as provided in this chap

ter.

§ 225. If an application for an order, made to a judge of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending, be refused in whole or in part, or be granted conditionally, no subsequent application for the same order can be made to any other judge.

226. A violation of the last section is punishable as a contempt; and an order made contrary thereto may be revoked by the judge who made it, or vacated by a judge of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending.

§ 227. When the time to answer or reply, in an action in the supreme court, has been extended by a county judge, neither he nor any other county judge can grant a further extension; and if an application be made to any judge for a further extension, the applicant must show by affidavit the time of service of the pleading to be answered, the time previously granted him to answer, and when the next circuit will be held in the

county. If a further extension be made by a county judge, it may be disregarded.

§ 228. Every judicial officer has power,

1. To preserve and enforce order in his immediate presence, and in the proceedings before him, when he is engaged in the performance of a duty imposed upon him by this code:

2. To compel obedience to his lawful orders, as provided in this code:

3. To compel the attendance of persons to testify in a proceeding pending before him, in the cases and manner provided in this code:

4. To administer oaths to persons, in a proceeding pending before him, and in all other cases where it may be necessary, in the exercise of his powers and duties.

§ 229. For the effectual exercise of the powers conferred by the last section, a judicial officer may punish for contempt, in the cases provided in this code.

§230. The judges of the court of appeals, and of the supreme court, have power, in any part of the state, to take and certify,

1. The proof and acknowledgment of a conveyance of real property, or of any other written instrument: 2. The acknowledgment of satisfaction of a judgment in any court, including a judgment of a justice's court,