power;” and of article III of the amendments to the constitution; which said article and sections, and all other provisions of the constitution inconsistent herewith, are hereby annulled.
Article XII
(Adopted November 3, 1903)
Section 1. The supreme court shall have final revisory and appellate jurisdiction upon all, questions of law and equity. It shall have power to issue prerogative writs, and shall also have such other jurisdiction as may, from time to time, be prescribed by law. A majority of its judges shall always be necessary to constitute a quorum. The inferior courts shall have such jurisdiction as may, from time to time, be prescribed by law.
Sec. 2. The judges of the supreme court shall give their written opinion upon any question of law whenever requested by the governor or by either house of the general assembly.
Sec. 3. Sections 1 and 2 of this amendment shall take, in the constitution of the state, the place of sections 2 and 3 of article X, entitled “Of the judicial power,” which sections are hereby annulled.
Sec. 4. Section 3 of article XIV of the constitution of the state, entitled “Of the adoption of this constitution,” is hereby annulled.
Sec. 5. The general assembly shall provide by law for carrying this amendment into effect, and until such provision shall be made, the supreme court, as organized at the time of the adoption of this amendment, shall continue to have and exercise the same powers and jurisdictions which it shall then have under such organization.
SAMOA
(See Tutuila, page 3675.)
