The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-04
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TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED GAN ACT
TO ESTABLISH DISTRICT COURTS"

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L. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, as follows: That
nm Act to establish District Courts, pas
sed on the twentieth day of December.
IN the year Of our Lord one. thousand
eight hundred and sixty-fve, be, and the
same is hereby, repealed, except as to
Its hrst and second sections, to wit: In
zach judicial District of the State, ex
!;e,pt Charleston, there shall be establish
ed District Court. which shall be Or
ganlzed by the Judge thereof as coon as
possible after his election; except in the
judicial District Of Charleston there
shall be established two District Courts,
one for the Election District of Charles
ton and one for the Election District of
Berkeley. The Judge of each District
Court shall receive from the Treasurer
2fthe State salary of five hundred dol:
lars year. payable quarterly, 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 Abbevile District, seven hundred
dollars; Barnwell District; seven hun
hred dollars: Collelon District, one
Thousand dollars; Chester District, Ave
hundred dollars; Darlington District,
live hundred dollars; Edgefeld District
eight hundred dollars; Fairfield District,
five hundred dollars; Georgetown Dis.
trict, one thousand dollars; Laurens
District, five hundred dollars; New.
berry District five hundred dollars
/. Oraugeburg District, five hundred dol.
lars; Richland District, one thousand
dollars; Sumter District eeven hundred
dollars; Union Distrios five hundred
dollars; York District, FIVE hundred dol
lars; Williamsburg District, five hun
dred dollars; Berkeley Election Dctrict,
one thousand dollars J, Charleston Elec-
ton District, one thousand dollars;
Beaufort District, one thousand dollafs
Kershaw District, FIVE hundred dollars;
ard for the District Judge Of each of the
other Judicia! Districts of this State,
five hundred dollars: Provided, however,
That in case the District Court Fund in
any District shall prove insufficient for
the purpose for such additional compen.
sation, rs herein provided, no claim for
the whole or any part Of such additional
compensation, upon the Treasury of the
State, shall arise by reason Of such def
Cheney: And provtdea, also, That. the
time when the salaries herein provided
for shall commence shall be when the
Court is organized, and the Judge is en-
powered to execute this Act.
RI. That the District Courts hereto
! fore established by law be organized by
the Judge thereof, Immediately after
the passage of this Act and that each OF
the said Judges respectively, Shall re:
ceiTe the salary heretofore provided by
law.
III. The Clerk and Sheriff of the sew.
eral Judicial Districts of the State shall
act as the Clerk and Sheriff OF the Dis
trict Court, or Courts, within their re-
spectlve Districts, and may perform
their duties IN person or by deputy.
The Judge, Clerk and Sheriff Of Dis.
ttict, shall each, before entering on the
duties of his Office, take the official oath
prescribed by the Constitution of the
State, aud also the oath or oaths requr-
ed specially to 90 taken by the ihGuhi-
bents Of such offices IN the Superior
Courts.
Nv. That the District Court shall
have exclusive Jurisdiction, subject TO
yhetight OF appeal in The Appeal Court
IN all cases of larceny and misdemeanof,
IN an cases OF vagrancy and iu all cases
of bastardy arising within the limits Of
the Biectioh District in which they are
esfablished.
v. All prosecutions 10 the District
Courts shall be conducted by the Attor.
hey General or by the Solicitor Of the
CIRCUIT to which the District Court be.
aongs, or by deputy appointed by such
Acknowledgement or Solicitor; or in the