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Section VII-5: Sessions - Quorum - Intermediate appellate courts - Form of decisions - Clerk of Supreme Court.

  The sessions of the Supreme Court shall be held at the seat of
government, and the sessions and duration thereof shall be fixed
by rule of said Court.  A majority of the members of the Supreme
Court shall constitute a quorum and the concurrence of the
majority of said Court shall be necessary to decide any question.
The jurisdiction, powers, duties and procedures of intermediate
appellate courts shall be as provided by rules of the Supreme
Court until otherwise provided by statute.  In the event of the
creation of intermediate appellate courts, all appeals shall be
made to the Supreme Court, which may, by rule, determine the
method of assignment to, and recall from, the intermediate
appellate courts until otherwise provided by statute.  When the
intermediate appellate courts acquire jurisdiction in any cause
and make final disposition of same, such disposition shall be
final and there shall be no further right of appeal except for
issuance of a writ of certiorari ordered by a majority of the
Supreme Court which may affirm, modify or make such other changes
in said decision as it deems proper.  The Supreme Court and
intermediate appellate court decisions shall be in such form as
the Supreme Court shall specify by rule and the Court of Criminal
Appeals decisions shall be in such form as it shall specify by
rule, until otherwise provided by statute.  The Supreme Court
shall appoint a Clerk of the Supreme Court, who shall serve at
the pleasure of the Supreme Court and who shall perform the
duties prescribed by law and rules of the Supreme Court.  The
Clerk of the Supreme Court in office on the effective date of
this Article shall continue in office for the duration of his
elective term.  

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