Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-24
THE DISTRICT COURTS OF sTo-
REY COUNTY.

The First Judicial District (Storey
county, having had three Judges allotted
to it by the constitution, diversity OF
opinion exists among the legal fraternity
as to the proper formation of the Court
and the manner of transacting business
To settle this matter, Mr.. Clagett has in
troduced bill, of which the following is
copy;
AN ACT
Establishing the Terms Of Courts, and the
bT I'm TS III of the First Judicial Dis
trict.
The People of the State of Neraaa, represent
ed in Senate and Assembly, DO enact as
toAotoS:
SECTION l. Terms of the District Court OF
the First Judicial District shall be general
and special.
SEC. Q. General terms shall be held by not
less than two of the Judges of said Court,
and the concurrence of two shall be neces-
sary to pronounce a judgment or decision'
II two do not concur, re-hearing before
full bench shall be ordered.
SEC, 3. Special terms shall be held by one
of the Judges of said Court, and may be held
by each OF said Judges at the same time and
contemporaneously with general term.
Sec. 1. There shall be six general terms Of
of said Court in each year, commencing on
the first Mondays of January, March, May,
July, September and November, and contn-
uing so long as the business of the Court
shall require, and the same may be adjourned
from time to time, as the business OF the spe-
eial term may demand.
SEC. ). The following matters shall be
heard at general terms: FUSt-All motions
to vacate Judgment or decree, or for new
trial. neutrality-suspicious. for reviewing
an order granting an injunction to restrain
parties from working mining ground. 1hird-
All motions or applications for relief OF any
kind which Judge at special term shall or
der to be heard at general term, except such
as involves the trial of issue of fact. Fourth
The assignment of the causes upon the CAL
endar to the respective Judges holding spe-
cial terms. All other business Of the Court,
except that which may be done at chambers,
shall be transacted at special terms.
SEC. 6. Atthe opening Of each general term
the Court shall parcel out all the cases upon
the calendar between the three Judges, for
disposition at the special terms, to be holden
BY them, and shall afterwards, during such
general term, make such new assignments
and modification as the condition Of the cal
endar may require.
Sec. 7. On the first day Of each general
term the Court shall, by order, fix the term
and place Of holding special term, BY each or
either of the three Judges, and designate the
Judges BY whom the same shall be held,
which order may be changed or modified at
general term.
SEC. s. At the commencement OF the first
January term, 1866, the Judges shall, BY Or
der Of Court, designate one of their number
to act as presiding Judge, and another to act
as presiding Judge in the absence Of the one
first designated. The person so designated
shall preside at the general term of said Court,
until change Of its number shall require
new designation, which shall in like manner
be made BY order of the Court.
Sec. 9. All statements, or motions for new
trial, shall be settled by the Judges before
whom the cause shall have been tried. And
all statement on appeal from an order made
at general term, shall be settled BY the pre-
siding Judge.
SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.