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

eNSuth vi OtpbSliOSI III b.tC SOuhll VI "
range, on the twenty fourth Of April and
|twenty-fourth of September /; in the county
of Albemarle, OH the second Of May and Sc
cond of October; in the county of Amherst,
on the tenth Of May and eighteenth OF Oc-
tober; and in the county of Nelson, on the
eighteenth of May and tenth of October, in
each year, which counties shall compose the
ninth circuit. A court shall be holden in
the county of Loudoun, on the first of April
and first Of September; in the county Of
Jefferson, on the seventh OF April and Sc
venth Of September in the county OF Berke-
ley, on the fourteenth of April and on the
fourteenth of September; in tho county of
Hampshire, on the twenty-second Of April
county of Hardy, on the twentv-eighth of A
pril and twenty-eighth of September in the
| county of Rockingham, on the seventh Of May
and seventh OF October /; i'll the county of
Shenandoah, on the fifteenth of May and
fifteenth of October; and in the county of
Frederick, on the twenty-third of May and
twenty-third of October, in each year, which
counties shall compose the tenth circuit. A
| court shall be holden in the county ST Angus
ia. on the FIRST of April and on the first of
September (; in the county of Rockbridgc,
| on the eighth of April and on the eighth of
September III the County OF Botetourt, on the
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in the County OF Monroe, on the twcnty-second
of April & ON the twenty second of Sept. in
the coanty of Grcenbrier, on the thirtieth of
April and OF the thirtieth Sept in the coun-
ty OF Eath, on the eighth of May and on the
eighth OF October in the county OF Pendlc-
ton, on the sixteenth OF May and on the six
,eenth OF October; and in the county of
Randolph, OH the twenty-hfth of May and .on
the twenty-hfth of October, in each year,
which counties shall compose the eleventh
circuit. A court shall be holden i'll the coun-
ty OF Brooke, on the first of April and first
| OF September in the county of Ohio, on
the eighth of April and en- the eighth of Sep
TENDER; in the county of Monongalia, on the
! fifteenth of April and on the fifteenth of
September in the county of Harrison, on
| the twenty-fourth of April and on the TWEEN
ty-fourth of September in the county of
Wood, on the third of May and on the third
| OF October; i'll the county of Mason, on the
twelfth of May and on the twelfth of Octo-
| Der in the county of Kanawha, OH the TWEEN
! tyfourth of May and on the twenty fourth
| of October, in each year, which counties
shall compose the twelfth circuit. Each of
the aforesaid courts sh Ii sit until the bust
ness thereof shall be dispatched, unless the
| Judge holding the same, be compelled to leave
the Court, III order TO arrive in time, to the
next succeeding court of his circuit. And
whenever any of the aforesaid court days,
shall happen on Sunday, the court shall
commence on the next day.
Be IL further enacted, That the superior
courts OF law, to be holden as aforesaid, in
each of the said counties ofthis commonwealth
shall have, possess and exercise, all the rights
Jurisdictions and powers, whether criminal
or civil, over all persons and things, with in
the limits of the respective counties, in which
they may be holden, that the district courts
OF law do possess, and might or could have
exercised under the law as heretofore, with
In their respective limits.
The practice and proceedings in the said
superior courts of law, shall be regulated by
the same laws and rules, as have been enact
ed and established, and do now exist for the
regulation of the proceedings of the district
courts of law.
The same right of appeal, which is now
allowed from the county and corporation
courts, to the district courts of law, shall still
be hadto the said superior courts oflaw, and
all process issuing under the law as hereto
fore, and which would have been returned
to the district courts of law or any of them,
shall be in future returned to the superior
court OF the county, in which the said pro-
cess may issue.
The right of appeal, shall remain and be
exercised as heretofore used in the district
courts.
The sheriffs of counties, shall act as
sheriffs of the aforesaid superior courts hold
en- in their respective counties, and shall
summon and impannel therefor, grand juries
as they have been heretofore summoned for
the district courts. The said sheriffs and
clerks, shall moreover do and perform, all
the duties appertaining to clerks of, and She
riffs attending on, the district courts, under
the law as at present The judge of each
circuit, shall appoint for their respective
courts, prosecutor for the commonwealth,
who shall be allowed FIVE dollars per day,
for every day he may be engaged in the pub
lie service, he certified by the judge, pro-
vided, that the sum received by any attorney,
shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars per
apnum fol- services in any one of the said SUI
perior courts.
All officers fees, for their services in suits
in the aforesaid superior courts of law, shall
be The same as are allowed at this time, for
similar services in the present district courts
of law.
All causes depending in the present district
courts of law, at the time when this act shall
go into operation, shall be arranged by the
respective clerks thereof, and all the papers
and documents belonging to each cause, shall
be by the said clerks, transmitted to the
clerks Of those counties respectively, in which
the first named defcndent in the cause may
reside, or where there are mere than two de-
PENDANTS, TO the clerk of the county, where
in majority Of the defendants reside: pro-
y;Led a majority reside in anv ONE conlttv TO