Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-10-10

And she bade them all goodbye.
Next day my darling's voice was gone;
But her yearning spirit.cyes
Told how she longed for namelcas boon,
And love made By guessing WISE
Again bore her beneath the trees,
Where their soft green shadows lay;
But darker shadow stole o'er my child,
And at sunset she passed away!
Acts Passed at the Extra Session of the
Legislature Of South Carolina.
AN ACT TO AMENDgAf ACT ENTITLED GAN ACT
TO ESTABLISH DISTRICT COURTS"
SECTION /. Be ii enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives, no'c met and sitting
in General assembly and by the authority o.
the same, as tOlloaos: That " An Act to estab
lish District Courts" /" passed on the twentieth
day of December, Ammo Domini one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-fve, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed, except as to its
first and second sections, to witt In each Ju'
dicial District Of the State, except Charleston,
there shall be established District Court,
which shall be organized by the Judge there
of as soon as possible, after his election, ex-
cept in the Judicial District Of Charleston.
there shall be established two District Courts,
one for the election District Of Charleston,
and one for the election District of Berklcy
The Judge Of each District Court shall re-
ceive from the Treasurer of the State salary
of five hundred dollars year, payable quar-
terly, and he shall be entitled, for further
compensation, to receive, annually, from the
District Court fund, as hereafter prescribed,
an additional sum, to'be paid quarterly on his
own draft as follows: For AbbeEille District
seven hundred dollars; Barnwcll District,
seven hundred dollars; Coleton District, one
thousand dollars; Chester District, five hun
dred dollars; Darlington District, five hun
dred dollars Edgettid District, eight hun
dred dollars Fairfield District, five hundred
dollars; Georgetown District, one thousand
dollars; Laurens District, five hundred dol.
lars: Newberry District, five hundred dollars
Orangeburg District, five hundred dollars
Richland District, one thousand dollars; Sum
ter District, seven hundred dollars; Union
District, five hundred dollars; York District
five hundred dollars; Williamsburg District
FIVE hundred dollars Berkeley Election Dis
trct, one thousand dollars; Charleston Elec
ton District. one thousand dollars Beaufort
District, ono thousand dollars; kcrsbaw Dis
trict. five hundred dollars; and for the Dis
trict Judge of each of the other Judicial Dis
tricts of this State, five hundred dollars
PROVIDED, hoperer, That in case the Distric
Court Fund in any District shall prove in
sufficient for the purpose for such additional
compensation as herein provided, no claim
for the whole or any part of such additona
oomp.nsation, upon the Treasury of the State
eboli arise by reason of such deficiency: Ano
nyopided also, That the time when the saa
ries herein provided for shall commence shall
he when the Court is organized and the Judge
empowered to execute this act.
SEC. 9. That the District Courts heretofore
established by law be organized by tht
judges thereof Immediately after the passage
of this Act, and that each Of the said Judges
respectively, shall receive the salary hereto
fore provided by law.
SEC. 8. The Clerk and Sheriff Of the sev
owl judicial Districts of the State shall ac
as the Clerk and Sheriff of the District Cour
or Courts within their respective Districts
and may perform thcir duties ln person or BY
deputy. The Judge, Clerl: and Sheriff of {
| District Court shall each, before entering OF
,be duties of his office, take the official oatt
prescribed by the Constitution Of the State
and also the oath or oaths required specially
to be taken by tie ;ncumbents OF such offices
in the Superior Courts.
Sec. 4. That the District Court shall have
exclusive Jurisdiction, subject to the right o
appeal to the Appeal Couri in all cases o
larceny and misdemeanor, IN all cases Of va
groncy. and in ell cases Of bastardy, arising
Within the limits of the Election District il
which they are established.
SEC. 5. All prosecutions in the Distric
Court shall be conducted by the Attorney
General, or by the Solicitor of the Circuit tt
which the District Court belongs or by ;
deputy appointed by sach Attoruey-General
or Solicitor, or in the absence of these, by ar
Attorney appointed by the District Judge.
SEC. 6. The District Court shall have con
current jurisdiction, subject to appeal q.
aforesaid, with the Court of Common Plea:
in all civil causes in which the title to land i!
not involved, and in which the debt sued fol
or the amount of damages claimed, does mo-
exceed one hundred dollars, and the sun
which limits tho proceedings by summary
process in all Courts of Law, is enlarged tc
one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, ant
exclusive jurisdiction in all matters of con
tract between employer and employee, mas
ter and apprentice, where the amount exceeds
twenty dollars.
SEC 7. The Judge Of the District Cour
shall be- invested with power to examine ant
snnervise all prosecutions, commitments aut
Warrants of arrest commenced before or is
sued by anY Magistrate within his Distric
Eor ony misdemeanor. And it shall be BIZ
duty. upon application made to him, to OK
time before trial, and to direct the discontin
uance thereof on such terms and conditions
as NAV seem to him most conducive to th,
ends Of Justice, and for this purpose he is au
tbcrized to summon before him the parties
and such witnesses as may be necessary.
SEC 8. The Judge of the District Cour
shall. in all respects, have the power of
Magistrate for his District. He shall exercise
snneryison over the Clerk and Sheriff of h
Co,,rt in all matters appertaining to the iuris
d;ct;on and business of said Court, also owe
the Coroner, all Magistrates, Constables ant
Roards of Commissioners of his District, ant
from him to any of them may proceed orders
rnlea. attachments or writs of mandamus
nrohibition certiorart, quo aca7ranto or scir
tacias. -,