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secutive weeks, in one or more newspapers
Of general circulation in his said county
The first publication Of the same shall be in
the first week in the month Of December
next ensuing the date of said order.
SECTION 5. The courts named in this act
shall be held for every year, in each judicial
district, at the times fixed and ordered by
the Judges thereof, in accordance with the
foregoing provisions. any act or acts TO the
contrary Notwithstanding Provided that
nothing herein contained shall have refer
ence to or control the holding Of courts in
the year one thousand eight hundred and
fity-six.
SECTION 6. No change or alteration
shall be made in the times Of holding said
courts of common pleas or district court, in
any common pleas district, or in any county
thereof, after the same have been fixed as
aforesaid, unless the judges Of said district
or a majority Of them, shall be Of the opin-
ion that such change or alteration is re-
quired by the public interests or convenience
and no such change or alteration shall take
effect during the year in which the order
thereof shall be issued. Whenever chan
ges or alterations are deemed necessary, as
aforesaid, they shall be made in the same
manner, and the same requisites shall be
observed as are provided for and required,
in sections three and four of this act, for
fixing the times Of holding said courts in
the first instance. Provided, that no publi-
cation Of such changes or alterations shall
be required in any county or counties not
included in the same, usless the judges max
ing such changes or alterations shall so Or
der. .s..
SECTION Z. IT, from any cause, there oc.
eur failure to hold the prescribed term OF
the district court in any county in any CON-
mon pleas district, it shall be the duty OF
the judges of said district, to appoint and
hold, within the same year, Especial term OF
the district court in said county, at which
they may dispose Of the business pending.-
And if, for the want of time, or other good
cause, the business of the district court, in
any county, cannot be disposed of at the
regular term thereof, it shall be lawful for
the judges of said court, whenever, in their
opinion, the business is of sufficient impor-
tance, to appoint and hold special term OF
said court in such county. Thirty days pre-
vious notice of the holding Of said special
terms shall be given in the county wherein
the same are ordered to be held.
SECTION 8. Whenever the state of bu-
siness in any court Of common pleas is such
as to render it necessary, such court shall
have power to hold an adjourned tern for
the purpose of completing the business of the
regular term, notice thereof having been first
entered upon the journal of said court at the
regular term at which said adjourned term
shall be appointed. Any Judge of said court
Of common pleas shall have power to appoint
and hold special term Of said court, when
the same in his opinion shall be necessary
in any county in his subdivision and in
such case said Judge shall issue his order for
such special term to the clerk of the county
wherein the same is to be held, ut least three
weeks prior to the commencement of such
term, and the said clerk shall forthwith cause
said order, or notice Of the holdi lg of such
term, to be published in some newspaper,
in such county, or of general circulation
therein.
SECTION 0. 1t shall be the duty of the
Secretary of State, to compile, in as brief
form as is practicable, the regular times OF
holding the district court and courts of COM
mon pleas in all the counties Of the State,
as fixed under the provisions of this ac, /;
and he shall cause such compilation or state
ment to be appended to and published with
the voluine of general laws in every year
when the General Assembly shall be in ses-
sion, and in every year when there is no ses-
sion of the General Assembly the same shall
be published with the annual report of the
Secretary of State. The said Secretary Of
State shall also publish such statement in
two newspapers in the city of Columbus for
two weeks, from and after the first Monday
of December, and as often as he shall be
notified of any changes as hereinbefore
provided for. He shall publish the same
for like period Immediately after he shall
have received such notification.
N. II. VAN VOORHEES,,
Speaker of the House ofRepresentatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
March 29th, 1856.