Joint Resolution No. 36 of 1871

Article VI

Sec. 7: No more than eighteen circuits shall be created prior to the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and in that year the Legislature shall re-divide the State into not more than fifteen circuits, and the number of circuits shall not exceed fifteen until the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, when, or at any time thereafter, the Legislature may alter the limits of circuits or increase the number of the same. Within these limits the Legislature may establish or alter circuits as the public needs shall require, but no alteration or increase creation of any circuit shall have the effect operate to remove a judge from office. In every additional circuit established When a circuit is made, the a judge thereof shall be elected by the electors of such circuit therein, and his term of office shall continue as provided in this constitution for judges of the circuit court courts.

Sources

• Joint Resolution No. 36 of 1871 (PDF)
• General Acts and Joint and Concurrent Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan Passed at the Regular Session of 1871, pp. 404–406 (HathiTrust)
• Michigan Official Directory and Legislative Manual, 1909-1910, p. 553 (HathiTrust)