Litchfield enquirer., 1866-09-13
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manner as executions granted by superior courts 5 and all the taxable tees of said city court shall be the same as taxable fees of the SEC 2 Whenever final judgment or decree is rendered in said city court in any cause in which a party may be entitled to 8 writ of CT. Tor to the superior court. such party may, in the same tenn and within five days after final Judgment or decree. file 8 motion that the re- Ecord in such cause may be transmitted to the next superior court in New Haven county and there upon said city court shall have the same powers. with reference to such notion, as are given to the superior court in the two hundred and tenth ssctions. title first | of the Revised Statutes of this state, upon sim liar motions in the superior court for the trans mission of records to the supreme court of errors; and upon the allowance of such mo- tion, and suitable bond taken to the adverse party, the amount to be detrmined by the judge of said court, & copy of the recerd shall l be entered on file at the next term of he Su- perior court for said county, which shall pro- tceed therein as on writ of error, and said city court may, upon allowing said motion, stay execution whenever it shall think proper so to do. .s.t.r-.. -......
 SEC. g. There shall be a judge for said court, who shall be chosen by the General Assembly; he shall enter upon the duties of his office on the first Monday of July next following his said election, and shall hold the same for the period of one year, and until another is chosen and sworn in his stead, and the oath to be taken by said judge shall be l the same mutatis mutandis, as the oath provi- ded, by law to be taken by executive and ju- dicial officers .sEa. n'e, "'a
 SEC. 4. Said city court shall have power | to appoint and swear a clerk for said court, to continue in office during pleasure, who shall, as to matters relative to his office us clerk of said court, have the power and authority and be entitled to the same fees as clerks of supe rior courts: and the oath to be taken by the clerk shall, be the mutatis mutandis, as the oath provided by law to be taken by clerks of courts. Said city court shall have power to l appoint an attorney for said city, also an as- 1 sistant attorney, to act in his absence or at his request, both of whom shall be sworn to 6 faithful discharge of the duties of their office and such attorney shall have power to sue and prosecute for all penalties for the breach of aEy of tho bylaws of said city, in the name of l the city, by proper action before said city court, and shall appear in all cases brought for or against said city of Waterbury.
 SEC 5. The process in all actions brought to said city court, shall be the same as process to the superior courts: which process shall be l signed by the governor, lieutenant govern or, or justice of peace; judge clerk of said city court, or by a commissioner of the superior court, and shall be served by sheriff deputy sheriff, city sheriff of said city of Waterbury, constable of said town of Waterbury, or an in different person deputed to serve the same, to whom directed according to law and the pro- visions of this act. All bonds of prosecution taken by any of the officers empowered to sign writs, shall be good and efeotual; and bonds of prosecutions, special bail, and bonds fer writs of error, shall be taken to the ad- ) verse party.
 SEC. 6. All writs shall be served at least twelve days before the sitting of the court to which the same may be returnable; and all writs rsturnable to said city court, shall be returned to the clerk thereof on or before the Friday proceeding the term of court to which the same may be returnable l SEC. The court of common couucil of said city shall provide suitable court room and such other accommodations for said city court including records, blanks, stationary, and so forth, contemplated by this act, as said judge may deem necessary.
 SEC. g. The salary of said judge and the time and manner of paying the same. shall be fixed by the Court of Common Council, and shall be in lieu of all fees whatsoever for such services as such judge, and shall be paid from the city treasury in the manner now provided by the laws of said city for paying money from said treas All fees arising from said court (except clerks fees,) shall be paid over by the clerk of said court to the city treasur- CT for all jury, witness and officers fees, Ur pay the same from any funds he may have in ais hands; he shall render his account of the same under oath to the auditor of said city as often as once each year.
 SEC. g. Whenever either party to any cause pending before said city court, desire the same to be determined by jury, said par " shall so notify the clerk of said court on
 or before the Saturday proceeding the first
 sitting of the court in which such cause is
 bending, and said clerk shall thereupon issue
 nis warrant, directed to either of the sheritts , of said city, commanding the sheriff receiving
 such warrant 70 draw and summon twelve ju- : rymen, in the manner now provided by the ;harter of said city, to hear and determine
 said cause, and said jurors shall be entitled to
 the same fees and be paid in the same manner ss is now by law provided.
 ! SEC. 10. There shall be a police court es-
 tablished within and for said city of Water
 oury. The judge of the city court for said
 ,.ty shall be judge of said police court, which
 said judge shall have and exercise, iu addition 1 to the jurisdiction and powers relating to
 criminal cases, arising within the incorporat-
 ed limits of said city, .now vested in the jus . ices of the the peace residing in. the town of
 Waterbury the other powers and duties csnfer.
 red and imposed upon such police judge by ! tnls act. In case said judge shall at any time
 be unable or disqualified to- act in any cause, or in case the duties of the office shall be too great for him reasonably to perform. he may designate and request in writing, any justice of tus peace resident within said city, to act as substitute, and said justice while 80 acting under such request, shall have the same pow CT as such judge would have in like eases, and T such written requests shall be recorded and : kept with the records of said court by the clerk of the same -- '-t.
 SEC. H.. From and after the appointment of such judge, no person or persons (other than
 such judge) within the incorporated limits of
 said city, except as when acting as substitute
 as hereinbefore provided or may be provided in the subsequ, nt sections of this act, shall f have, use or exercise any of the powers speci-
 fed and mentioned in the proceeding section f of this act, except in eases specially provided : for in the subsequent sections of the same |: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so constructed as to prohibit any magistrate now authorized by law to issue warrants for the arrest of offenders, from issuing the same hereafter, or to prohibit justices of the peace from discharging any ministerial duty or of- fee now by law imposed upon him, but all warrants issued on account of any offence sek- -sa E. kAA a4- A ..s