Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-05-05
SKETCH OF TIE ACTS
or A GENERAL NATURE,

IcoNTfyUED FROM TIE GAZETTE EXTRA
2a3. An act imposing taxes for the sup
mort of government; imposes Inc usual taxes,
and at the same rates; with reduction oil
ten cents on each slave; Of two cents on
each horse; Of twenty five cents on writs OF G
iectmsnt or other process 30 super'erconTt
Of law; Of seventy five cents Oh each suCpG
ma in a superior court OF chaDeery, OF '"eh-
tv-five cents on each "ft oil eJcctineh' or
subpoena instituted IN a county or corporation
court; and ol twenty five cents on notarai
seals: aud with an Increase oil TWO hohured
dollaps on licenses to sell lottery tickets gen
sraIlg. and requiring one per centum on the
.ma;,nt ,r money 10 bo raised ~ any lottery
authorised by the State, on any scheme du.
rim. fine wear. TO be paid by the managers,
before apvt,e ket shall he sold ia such scheme
9lA. An act TO establish d court OF law aud
chaocery in each OF the counties Oh the Com
rnonwealth aud in certain corporations there
in tncatisacd provides that the Common
wealth shall ia divided into ten districts, and
each district iato lt.5 circuits, and that a cir
cult superior court Of taw and chancery shall
be held twice in every year, at the court hon
sesin each county OF corF2raiion, as follows:
Here follows list Of tho circuits aHd
counties embraced ia them, which we have
not roo n for In detail with the exception oil
farce. IN which Jul tCo"@t~ go 1850 ''''NN
ested
6h Circuit -Fauqaier list April and Ist
September, Loudoun 2lSt April and , LIST sep
TENDER. Prince William It'll May and lth
October, Fairfax 23d May aud 23d October,
Stafford I'd June aud 81 November.
VII. DlsrgIcr-l 3h Circmt-Jeiierson 9th
March and 5th September, Berkeley 18th
March and 18th SeptembeF, Morgan slst
March and 28th SeleAmber, Hampshire 9th
April and 5th October; Frederick LIST May
and 18th October
I4th Circuit-Page lst April aud ist Sep
TENDER, Shenandoah 9Th April and 9th Sep
TENDER, Hardy 2lst April and 2lst Septem
Der. pendleton I'd May and Sd October,
Rockingham 10th May and 18th October.
The courts to sit until the business be des-
patched, unless the Judge be compelled to
leave the court to arrive in time at the sue
ceeding court, give concurrent jurisdiction
to the courts On each side of any water course
dividing several counties
Twenty Judges to be commissioned, to re
side in their respective districts with power
TO exchange circuits with each other for a
year at a time, IL approved by the genaFai
court; If Judge OF a circuit fails to hold any
courts in his district, the Judge himself, or
the other judge to appoint special sessions
for those courts, and to hold the same for
ses in chancery The canscS, rules and dock
cts of common law aud chaucery, to he kept
separate and distinct, but the rules for both
TO be held in the clerks offices on the same
dav: prescrihes the oaths OF the Judges, and
the penalties for failure to take them. II the
fudge fails TO attend before four O'Clock oil
the third day. the court, and the matters
therein depending. to be continued I'll the
next term, gives the said circuit courts gen
eral chancery jurisdiction over the particular
county in which they are hed, and over all
matters transferred to them from the former
shancery courts: and concurrent jurisdiction
in chancery with the county and corporation
courts; gives them jurisdiction over all erim-
iaal matters arising within their respective
limits, not specially taken away by statute,
and over all matters and things az COMMON
law cegnizable in the general court on the
c2d December, 1888. and in the former su-
perior courts Of law, the amount IN contro-
versy, exclusive of cost, being fifty dollars,
or fifteen hundred pounds Of tobacco; and
gives them concurrent jurisdiction with ths
quarterly terms Of the county and corpora
fioa courts in all matters of detinue and tro-
yer; the general eomm0n law jurisdiction to
be confined to the matters arising within the
county or corporation; gives them such ad-
miralty jurisdiction is not taken away by
the Cons titstution Of the Uuited States Tho
court to be held for Henrlco, Al the Capitol IN
Richmond 10 be vested with the same pow
ers as heretofore. No questions arising IN
civil cases in future to be adjourned TO the
general court; but in any criminal case, with
the consent of the accused, such question
may be adjourned, and be tried in the alb
sence of the accused
The process, practice and proceedings ia
che said courts, at consaon law, or as courts
of prohat, and as courts Of Chancery, 10 be
the same as in the former superior coults of
&hancery, mdtatis mutandis.
Appeals from county aud corporation courts
not denandab Of right, whether from a de-
cree IN cnancery or Judgment at law, or
ease Of caveat, but are SO demandable from
orders in controversies concerning wills, ad-
Eanistration, guardians, or committees; and
wits of error OE supefsedeas are authorised
az heretofore to be awarded in vacation or in
term, both on the chancery and common law
sides of the courts. Appeals to the court of
appeals from the said circuit courts, not de-
mardable Of right, in any case, but upon pc
tlti0n IN the cases above enumerated, It is
left discretionary with the Judge to grant or
refuse the same, the petition to be preferred
within three years 10 the Judge OF the cir
emit. and w!thln FIVE years to the Judge OF the
court oil appeals, and not after; and no APP
peal IS allowed to the circuit courts or to the
CONT OF appeals, from introductory orders
Or DEGREES, unless money be- required to be
pod. or the possession or title OF property be