Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1851-07-24

1 Sec. 9. The Office of said court shall
be at the city court room of said city, OF
such other place as the court of common
council shah provide therefor, and shall
be kept open for the transaction of bust
ness every day except Sundays, during
the usual hours Of business.
Sec. Z, Presentments of complaints in
any criminal matter cognizable by said
police court, may be made to the same
by any grand juror of tie town of Hart,
ford, or the attorney of the city of Hart.
ford; and said court shall exercise tho
same powers in relation TO the issuing Of
process against persons SO complained of,
and tie granting of a summons or cap;as
for witnesses, as are conferred upon JUS
tees of the peace, in and by the one
hundred and fifty seventh section of the
sixth title of the Revised Statutes of this
State.
Sec. 5. Before entering upon the trial
of any criminal cause, the said police
court may adjourn the hearing or trial
thereof, from time to time, not exceeding
fifteen days, unless said court. upon go I'd
cause shown, may deem longer tim"
necessary for the purpose of procuring
material testimony, which time shall not
exceed ninety days. And said court, if
the offence charged be bailable, shall take
good and sufficient bail, if offered, for the
person charged at the day to which the
hearing Or trial is adjourned. # the
case is within the final jurisdiction Of said
police court, the bond of recognizance
shall be payable to the city treasurer,
otherwise to the county or state treasur.
er, as the nature of the offence shall re.
quire.
Sec. 9. Said police court is hereby re-
CURED to charge and tax for the use Of
the city of Hartford, in any criminal pro-
cecding, such clelk-fees as are now allow
ed by law to the clerks of the county
court, and also one dollar for the trial Of
each cause and one dollar duty on each
appeal, and the fee of the prosecuting Of
ficer, who shall make any complaint or
presentmcnt, shall be the same as those
now provided by law for grand Jurors of
towns, and payable from the city treasu>.
ry, and al such fees Of the prosecuting
officer shall be taxed and received by the
clerk, in favor of the city of Hartford.
Said clerk may pay unto persons entitled
to costs in any criminal prosecution, such
costs as have of right accrued to them,
taking their receipt therefor. but shall not
pay any costs to any person who shall
not demand the same within six months
after the same are taxed; and said clerk
may draw orders on the city treasurer
for such sums as are necessary for such
purpose, or may pay the same out of the
funds OF the city in his hands.
Sec. 10. The said clerk shalt receive
all fines imposed by said police court and
paid before commitment, and account tor
| the same to the city auditor, and pay the
same to the city treasurer and all fines
paid after commitment, shall be received
by the keeper Of the jail. work, house or
penitentiary, where the offender shall be
| confined. and by such keeper paid to tn =
said treasurer, within thhty days after
the receipt thereof.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of the
city attorney to prosecute, in the name
of the city treasurer, any of the bonds
mentioned in the eighth section Of this
act, which are payable to said treasurer,
within ten days after the same shall be
forfeited, and accounted to and with the
CITY auditor for all sums recovered on
such bonds, except taxable fees.
Sec. -. The court of common coun-
Gil of said city may enter into any ar
rangement with the county commission,
ers Of Hartford county, or with the in.
spectors OF any work-house, within said
county, to receive and keep all persons
who may be sentenced t. confinement in
the common Jail of said county or in said
work. house, by said police court; and
after such agreement shall have been en-
tered into. it shalt be the duty of the
sheriff of Hartford county and his depu-
ties, of the city sheriffs. and of any con-
stables or city watehmen resident With
in the town of Hartford, to convey all,
persons so sentenced without delay to the
appointed place of confinement and deli
yer them to the keeper thereof. who shall
receive and imprison such persons and
employ them according to the rules, re-
gulations and discipline Of such place Of
confinement. during the term for which
they shall severally be sentenced and
committed. or until they are discharged
according to law but the said court of
comm on council shall not have power to
enter into any such agreement, at any
one time, for longer period than two
years,
4 Sec. IS. The city of Hartford, at any
city meeting specially warned for that
purpose. may by major vote of said
meeting, authorize the erection of city
penitentiary for the confinement of per-
sons sentenced to be committed by said
| police court; the rules, regulations and
discipline of which said penitentia.ry when
erected, may be ordered and established
in and bv any CITY bv.laws rela,;ro. ,bero-