Section 5. Whenever a county shall contain forty thousand inhabitants

it shall constitute a separate judicial district, and shall elect

one judge learned in the law; and the General Assembly shall provide

for additional judges, as the business of the said districts may

require. Counties containing a population less than is sufficient to

constitute separate districts shall be formed into convenient single

districts, or, if necessary, may be attached to contiguous districts

as the General Assembly may provide. The office of associate judge,

not learned in the law, is abolished in counties forming separate

districts; but the several associate judges in office when this

Constitution shall be adopted shall serve for their unexpired terms.

Common Pleas Courts in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties.

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