The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-01-11
Magistrates" passed A. D. 1889, in re-

sue of fact to be tried under the Hrlson
Bound Act, or in any other case where
by law, there is provision for trial or in
quest by a jury before one OF moro Mag
istrates, the District Judge may either
proceed to organize a Jury, as Magistrates
are directed to do, and have trial before
himself at a place to be appointed by
him, or may take the case into his Court,
and submit it to Jury organized there,
as is hereinafter provided; and the ver-
dict had in either course shall have all
the effect which any verdict before Mag
istrates would have; an appeal may bo
taken by either party TO Circuit Judge
at Chambers, or in open Court, from the
decision Of the District Court on the trial
of any case between landlord and tenant,
or of forcible entry and detainer: Provl-
ded, That notice Of tho appeal shall be
given in writing to the District Judge,
and to the opposite party, or his attorney
within twenty-four hours after the deci-
sion shall have been rendered, and that a
time not exceeding twenty days, shall be
stated in the notice, as the time at which
the application to hear the appeal will be
made, which notice shall state before
what Judge, and what place the applica-
ton will be made. It shall be the duty
of the District Judge on whom the notice
of appeal may be served, to deliver to
the appellant or his attorney, within two
days after service of such notice, a ccrti-
fed copy of all the proceedings in the
case, and for such certificate and copy,
the Clerk of the District Court shall be
entitled to charge as costs, in the case,
fifty cents for the certificate and one mill
for each word of said copy. The Judge,
before whom the appeal shall be heard,
shall have the power to reverse the dec-
sion, if there be no evidence upon which
to sustain it, in cases where the decision
shall be for the plaintiff or actor, OF may
in any case grant a new trial, or order an
issue made up TO be tried in the Circuit
Court
vTl G'Ae District Court shall be a.
w..ys open, and Shall be y Gowt Of Re
cord; ordinarily, it shall sit in the Court
Room. of The District Court House, ex-
ccpt in the District of Berkeley. A place
near by shall be provided by the Commis-
soncrs of Public Buildings for its sittings,
when the Court Room may be occupied
by the Superior Court. For any sitting,
except the quarterly sittings hereinafter
mentioned, the District Judge may, how
ever, appoint any place in the District
and these parties, witnesses, Jurors and
other persons concerned, ,.shall boii bound,
having due notice, to attend; every sum-
mons. notice and process being, however,
understood to require attendance at the
Court House, if another place be not
specified.
XIII. All judgments and decrces oD'
tanned in the District Court, the effect ol
which would be to create lien on the
property OF the defendant, shall be en-
tered up at such times as Judgment OBJ
tained in the Circuit Court thence next
ensuing may be entered up.
XIV. On the first Monday of every
month shall be monthly sitting of the
District Court, which shall continue as
long as the despatch of business may re-
ouire. At this sitting may be tried small
and mean causes, small matters, civil and
criminal, between persons of color, be-
tween white persons and persons of color
between master and servant, between
master and apprentice, and between en-
ployer and laborer Petty misdemcanors
imputed to persons of color, complaints by
persons of color against white persons o.
misdemeanors, for which fine not ex
cecding twenty dollars is assuficient pun
lshment, CIVIL suits, lnVolVlnS noC liol'
than twenty dollars, in which a per
son of color is party, and questions
concerning vagrants and paupers not re
quiring a jury. Any business to which
Judge at Chambers is competent, ant
other business which does not require
jury, may also bo done; besides all bust
ness which may be done, as aforesaid
may also, at this sitting OF the Distric
Court, be tried cases of aggravated misde
meanors and clergyable telonies, of whicl
persons ofcolormay be accused, and of mis-
demeanors requiring punishment exceed
ing fine of twenty dollars, and affecting
the nerson or property of person ofcolor