The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-04

short and simple forms for the transaction OF Dus-
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XIII. The Judge of the District Court may
practice in the Superior Court, except IT. eases
which have been argued before him or heard N
his Court but he shall not have partner il the
practice Of law and equity in the District of which
he is Judge.
XIV. The return day of the quarterly session
of the District Court shall be ten days before the
first day of the sitting thereof
XIV. All fees of the Clerk and Sheriff shall be
paid in cash, by the party requiring the services,
and according to the judgment of the Court, may
or may not be recovered from the opposite party.
XVI. The Clerk shall keep, separately, for the
District Court. the docket rules book and Journals,
as prescribed by law for the Superior Courts, to
be furnished him by the Commissioners of Public
Buildings and shall file all papers in the mode
prescribed in seventh section A. a., 1889, 11th
Statutes at Large, p. 10, but he shall enter oil
judgments and DEGREES in the book of abstracts OF
judgments and DEGREES along and in chronological
order with the judgments and DEGREES of the Su-
perior Courts. The Sheriff shall enter all papers
and sales in the books now kept by law in his
Office
XVII In case of vacancy in the Office of Dis
trict Judge by death, resignation otherwise, the
Governor shall Immediately appoint successor,
who shall hold Office until Judge shall be ap-
pointed by the Legislature, and shall have quail
fed. During his continuance in Office, he shall
hold no other office of profit trust in this State,
or the United States.
XVIII. The rules of practice which prevail in
the Superior Courts shall be applied to the Dis
trict Court, unless otherwise specially provided
by the rulesto be made by the Court of Appeals,
or by Act of the Legislature; but rule or order
of any Court or Judge in this State shall require
tbo hv IN n cuIt- Of report,
brief, or other paper connected with appeals.
XIX All fines imposed by the District Court
shall be paid to the Commissioners of Public
Buildings of the Judicial District in which the
Court is located; but all fines imposed by the
Court of General Sessions shall constitute n part
of the District Fund, and in Charleston District be
equally divided between the District Courts OF
Charleston and Berkeley. And the said District
Fund. in addition to the said nes shall consist Of
docket fee of one dollar, in civil cases in which
the amount demanded is under fifty dollars, and
two dollars if the sum demanded exceeds that
amount; two dollars in every criminal cause, and
two dollars for the report in every case of appeal
the said docket fees to be paid by the same parties
who are liable for the other fees in the case by the
provisions of this Act.
Xxx. The District Fund shall be held by the
Clerk of the Court under the security of his Off
cal bond. He shall keep on exact account there
of in n separate book kept for the purpose, IN
which he shall enter all money received and all
money paid on the draft of the District Judge,
without which he will make no payment He shall
make semi-annual returns of said account to the
District Judge, and annual returns to the Comp
trollcr- General on or before the first of October,
accompanied by vouchers.
xxi. The fees for Attorneys. Attorney General,
the Solicitors and their Deputies, Sheriffs and
Clerks, shall be the same in the District Court as
now provided by law in the Superior Court In a
criminal case, if the accused be convicted, he
shall be liable to all the costs of prosecution. Ii
collection from the convict cannot be had then the
State shall be liable for onehaf of said COSTS If
the accused be acquitted, the Judge before whom
the trial shall be had, if he has become satisfied
during The trial that the prosecution was without
probable cause, may order that the prosecutor
shall pny the costs Of the prosecution, for which
the Clerk shall issue execution. AS soon after the
organization of the District Court may be prac-
ticable, the Judge thereof shall order q special
Court at which he shall cause to be drawn n full
panel of Grand and Petit and Pleas Jurors, in The
manner prescribed by law for the Superior Courts,
and at each term of the District Court thereafter,
Jurors shall be drawn in the manner now prescri-
bed by law for tho Superior Court.
In the Senate House, the twcnty-hrst day OF
September, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-six.
w. D. PORTER,
President Of The Senate.
C. H. SIMONT0N,
Speaker House Representatives.