The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-02-11

rN year anu Tor tne CountleS OK SanpDeiiy
York, and Pyttsylvania, in the month Of June,
instead of May, in every year.
Beit further enacted, That from the COM
menccmens of this act, the general court
shall consist of twelve judges.
| Be IL further enacted, That so soon as
two additional judges shall be appointed and
qualified, in pursuance of this act, the GO
vernon with the advice of council, shall pro-
coed to allot one judge of the general court to
each of the circuits hereby established, who
shall perpetnally hold the superior court with
in the same thereafter; and whenever there
| after, vacancy shall happen in the general
court, the person appointed to supply the
same shall, after his appointment, reside in
the circuit, to which his predecessor shall
have been allotted.
Belt further ENACTED, That so soon as the
allotment aforesaid, shall be made, the go
vernon shall inform the several Judges, to-
which of the circuits they shall have been Sc
verally allotted, and each of the said Judges,
shall thereupon proceed by deed under his
| hand and seal, to appoint clerk for each OF
the superior courts within his circuit, except
the superior Court OF that county, in which Il
district court may have been holden within
the same, the clerk whereof, shall be the
clerk OF the superior court of that county, in
which such district court shall have been
| holden. And the appointments so to be made
shall, on or before tine first day of March next
be certified by the ndges to the several Courl-
ty courts, who shall proceed to take such
bond from the said clerk, and administer
such oaths to him, we,e heretofore re-
CURED in the case of the clerks of district
courts.
| Beitfurtter enacted, That the clerks OF
| OF the several courts, hereby established, shall
have power to to appoint deputies with the
| appreciation of their several courts. who shall
be qualified as deputies of the county clerks
are usually qualified; and thcreupon such
deputies, shall have full power and author
ity to do and perform all the several acts and
duties enjoined upon their principals.
| Belt further enacted, That each judge of
the general court, shall have power, on mo-
tion made and for good Cause shewn at the
bar of any superior court within his circuit,
to change the venire in any cause depending
in either of the courts hereby established
within his circuit; so that such change be to
some other court within the same circuit
But the general court shall have power as
heretofore to change the venire from circuit
to circuit.
| Be ifurther enacted, That all judgements
rendered in the distict courts before the first
of January next, which shall, on that day be
wholly or in part, uneXecuted, shall be exc
cuted by the respective superior courts of
those counties, III which the same shall have
dered by the court of appeals, after the said
first day of January, upon any appeal, writ
OF error, or supersedcas at law, shall be Ger
tined to the superior court of that county, in
which the first judgment shall have been rem
dered. And the power and duties of the said
last mentioned court, and OF the clerk there
| OF, shall be the. same in relation to such
Judgment, as the power and duties of the dis
trict court, and the clerk thereof would have
h,A
Be II further enacted, That every cause
IN which the venire hath been, or shall be
changed by the general court, prior to the
SAID firSt day OF January, and which shall
remain untried OH that day, shall be tried by
the Superior court of that county, to which
the same shall have been removed. And the
superior courts of those counties, in which
the respective district courts are now hold
en-, shall have jurisdiction to try all such
causes, as ON the first day of January next,
shall remain Oil the dockcts thereof, and
which shall not be transmitted to some other
county for trial, by virtue of this act.
| he it further enacted, That all the pa
pers hereby directed to be certified by the
clerks OF district courts, to the clerks of
| the courts hereby ablshcd, shall be deli
vered to the last mentioned clerks, on ar be-
fore the first day of March, in the year one
thousand eight hundred aud nine, who shall
thereupon proceed to prepare dockets for
the first terms of their respective courts.
BE IL further enacted, That it shall be
lawful for the clerks Of the district courts,
to issue all such original writs or process
thereon, until the first day of March afore-
said, directed to the several sheriffs or coro-
ners within their respective districts, as
they might heretofore have lawfully issued;
but all such writs or process thereon, as
would have been Teturnable to the district
courts, shall by the several sheriffs and CO.
rOners, be returned into their several supe-
rior courts in the same manner az if the
same had been made there returnable.
| BE HJurther enacIed, That the town and
borough court of Petersburg, Snail be under
the jurisdiction of the superior court of Din
widdie, and the city and borough court of
| Williamsburg, shall be under the jurisdc-
ton of the superior Court of James City
county; and the clerk of the district court
OF Williamsburg, shall be the clerk of the
last mentioned superior court.
| Be IL further enacted, That all acts and
| parts of acts, heretofore passed and now in
force, in respect to the district courts, their
clerks and other officers, shall be in force,
as to the superior courts hereby established,
and their clerks and other officers and their
respective powers, duties and rules of pro-
| ceeding shall be the same.
All acts and parts of actsy Coming within
the purvlcw of this act, shall &c, and the
same are hereby reDealed =