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 2. All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the State as if this Constitution had not been formed.

3. This Constitution shall be the Supreme Law of the State; and the Judges of all the Courts, and all other officers, whether civil or military, shall be bound, by oath or affirmation, to its due observance.

4. The Supreme Judicial Court, established by this Constitution, shall have the same jurisdiction as the Supreme Judicial Court at present established, and shall have jurisdiction of all causes which may be appealed to or pending in the same, and shall be holden at the same times and places, in each county, as the present Supreme Judicial Court, until the Legislature shall otherwise prescribe.

5. The Circuit Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace shall have the same jurisdiction as the present Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, in the several counties, and shall have jurisdiction of all causes which may be appealed to or pending in the said Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace in the respective counties; and shall be holden at the same times and places in the respective counties, as the said Courts of Common Pleas, until the Legislature shall otherwise prescribe; and all writs and processes, which may be made returnable to the said Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, shall be returned to, and the same proceedings shall be had thereon in the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas, in each county, as might have been had thereon, in the said Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace.

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