Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-05-08
ELECTION OF JUDGES.
AN ACT

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Tie JuIges undrr tic dmended Cm-
sti'uiion, md prori'iing for their
Election BY tie Fofcrs.
|. Be 1t rnacted by tie general as.
scmJiy, That the first day Of July
next shall be the time for the COM
mcncemcnt of the official terms of the
Judges under the amended constitu-
tinn aud the frs, election Of judges
under the suid constitution shall bo
held on the fourth Thursday Of May
next.
2. The Office Of Judge shall be
deemed vacant not only when he dies,
bnt also when he fails 10 qualify with
/, in thirty days next ufIer he receives
his commission.
8. When there shall he such vacan-
cy in the office Of judge as is men
toned in the preceding section, the
governor shall make known the fact
by proclamation published for such
time and in such newspapers within
the circuit or section and elsewhere as
he may deem proper 10 give informa.
tinn thereofto the voters; and by such
proclamation shall require an election
! to fill the vacancy to be held on Ger.
tain dav, not less than one month nor
more than four months next after the
commencement of such publication,
and in said proclamation shall specify
what counties (and what cities or
towns if any constitute the circuit or
section in which The vacancy exists;
and a special election t" fill such va.
cuncy shall be held on the day speci.
fed in the proclamation.
4. Every election Of judge not
provided fm ny either of the three
preceding sections shall be held, if it
he for circuit, at the end of eight
years, and if it be for a section, at the
end of twelve years next after the
previous election in such circuit or
section, aud on the same day of the
month in which the said previous e.
lection was held, unless that day would
cume within the thirty days mention
ed in the sixteenth section of the sixth
article of the constitution, in which
case the elrc,i"n shall he held on the
FIRST day afterwards that maybe con-
.;is,ent with the said sixteenth section.
S. In every election ola Judge there
shall he opened III the several coun-
ties, cities and towns constituting the
circuit or section for Which the elec.
ton is held, polls at the same places
at which under the laws then in force
polls are required to he opened i'll said
counties, cities and towns for members
ol the general assembly; and they
shall be kept open for the like i,ne.-
The same commissioners and other of.
! ficcrs whp are to act at and il relation
to other elections under the govern
ment of this state in the same year. at
said places, shall act at and in relation
to elections under this act, and have
the like powers and perform the like
duties, underth like penalties, excep,
81 far as is herein otherwise provided
6. The meeting of officers, in the
case of an election for circuit, shall
be on the eighth day, and in the case
Of all election for section, on the
fifteenth day next after that fixed fnl
the commencement of said election.
The place meeting, when the cleo.
tion is for circuit, shall be, lift be
the first circuit, at the cnurt-housc ol
the city of Nortnlk il the second cir
ruit, a, the courthouse Of tho city oi
Petersburg; if the third circuit at
Charlotte courthouse; if the fourth
circuil. ut Franklin courthouse; if the
| filth circuit, at Accomack courthouse
ifthe sixth cir, ui,, at courthouse of
tho county Of James City; ifrhe sew
enh Circuit, at courthouse Of the city
Of Richmond; if the eighth circuit,at
Essex courthouse; if,he ninth circniI
u, Prince William courthouse; if the
tenth circuit, at Louisa court house ;
: if the eleventh circuit, at the court.
house in the town of Staunton; ifthc
twelfth circuit, at Rockingham court.
house; if the thirteenth circuit,at the
courthouse in the town Of Winches'
ter; il the fourteenth circuit, nj ALE.
uhany courthouse; ifthc fifteenth cir
cult. Il, Raleigh courthouse; if the
sixteenth circuit.at Pulaskicnurthouse;
If the seventeenth circuit, at Washing
ton courthouse; if the eighteenth cir
cult, ut Putnam courthouse; il the
nineteenth circuit, at Gilmer court
house ifIhc twentieth circuit, at the
courthouse of Ohio county; and iftht
twcn,y.frst circuit, ut Taylor court
house. The place Of meeting, wlIe'
the election is for section. shall, iii
DO the first section, be at Chariot,
courthouse; il the second section, a
the courthouse in the town of Fred
oricksburg; if the third section, n
Rockingham courthouse; it the foultl
section, at Giles courthouse; and i
the fifth section, at Wood courthouse