The Arkansas advocate., 1834-01-17

ot Johnson, 10 o55ttaa;;ss trena said clerk 3 certificate thereof, and to cause the same
 to be filed In the office of the clerk of the couniy of Pope, and noted on the record of the said circuit court, from and after which
 the jurisdiction of the circuit court of the county of Pope over such case shall cease
 and determine, and the circuit court of the
 county of Johnson shall have jurisdiction
 thereof, Tn the same manner, and to the
 same extent, that the county of Pope be-
 fore had.
 SEc. 3. find bs U fisrfher enaetea, That
 the temporary scat of justice of Johnson
 county, hereby erected and established,
 shall be at the present residence Of K.IlJah
 ID. fz5sieii, aid tiiat an election shall be lhe.d in the several townships on the first
 Monday oi January next, for the purpose of clectng one commissioner from each 1 township, one clerk one sheriff, one coro-
 her, to ts elected by the legal voters of sad townships, the commissioner to be a cltizen ot the township from which he Is teleeted, to locate the seat of justice in and for the county of Johnson, and that said election shall be conducted in the same
 manner that the general elections are by law required to be conducted, and that the
 electors saildcomIfiissIoners shall respective fly possess the same qualifications which en- title them to vote at the general elections,
 and that the returns of said elections shall
 be made to the clerk of the circuit court of 1 the county of Johnson, within the same
 time, and Tn the same manner, that the re-
 turns of the general elections arc by law required to be made, and the pollock re-
 turned siaii ba opened aid il .i .i.
 cd ln the same manner now prescribed by
 jaw, and it#silaii bc the duty of the clerk to
 give to each commissioner elected, cer- Itidcate of his election.
 SEC. z. s9ndI be it fstyflsca saaeied, That, before the said Commissioners shall enter
 on tho duties of theig said office, they shall respectively take and subscribe, before some justice ot the peace in and for said icounty, an oath that they will faithfully and linpartally locate the seat of justice in said lcounty, as little to the prejudice of the ma- flority of the inhabitants thereof as may be
 ia their power, according to the best of
 their judgment; which oath so taken and subscribed, shall be filed with the clerk of
 the circuit court of said county; and af.er
 being ; qualified said commissioners. or
 a majority of them, shall, as soon may bo, and previous to tie lrst Term of the circuit court to be thereafter holden in and
 for said county, proceed to select for, and
 locate, said seat of justice, and they or
 majority of them, shall report to the !. ] faf
 after they have located the same, the place
 by them located.
 l SEe. 5. find De a further enacted, That
 1t shall be the duty of said commissioners,
 or majority of them, to provide, in such
 manner as they may deem necessary, q piace for holding of the circuit court in and
 for said county at the place by them se-
 lected for the county seat thereof; and that the said commissioners shall respectively receive, out of the county treasury Of said county of Johnson, one dollar per day for each day they may beactualiy engagedinper- forming the duties required oi' them by this ! act; and 1t shall be the duty of the circuit , court of said county, to adjourn or hold , the said court at the place selected and pro- yided as aforesaid, after said commission- CTS shall have reported as aforesaid; and all process of every description whatever, re- turnable at the temporary seat of justice of said county, shall bereturned to, and be as } valid Ill law at the place selected and pro- l yided by said commissioners as aforesaid, as the same would have been at the tefnpo- rary seat of justice aforesaid.
 | SEC. 6. find Dc t fanfher enaefed, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the cir l cult court of the county of Pope, to make } out a true account of all monies, which are, f CT ought 10 be, in the treasury of the said } county of Pope, on the twenty-ffth day of t December next, and to deliver one copy f thereof, to the prosecuting attorney of said } circuit court within twenty days after the ttwenty-fifth day of December next, whose , duty 1t is hereby made to file idcopy with the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Johnson, at or before the first succeed l inc term of said circuit court, to be holden : after the said twenty-ifth day of Decem- t Der; and it shall De the duty of the sher- fl if or treasurer of the county of Pope to pay over to tic sheriff sheriff s treasurer at the :, county of Johnson, within thirty days after f the said twenty-6fih day of December, one 7 half of the monies which are or ought to g be in the treasury, after paying one-sixth of r the monies to the sheriff of Scott county, ] and paying all necessary expenses of sad | county of Pope; and it is also made the | duty of the sheriff of the county of John r son, to call on the sheriff oi the county ei : Pope, within thirty days after the said tuantv-f;ffh day of December. and to de-