Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-10-06
Acts Of the Legislature.


ting in General Assembly, and by the author
ty of the san1e, as follows: That An Act
to establish District Courts" tasscd on tho
twentieth day Of December, Ammo Domini one
thousand eight hundred and sixty five, be,
and the same is hereby, repealed except as to
its first and second sections, to wit: In each
Judicial District Of the State, except Charl-
cston, there shall be established District
Court, which shall be organized by tho Judge
thereof as soon as possible after his election,
except in tho judicial District of Charleston,
there shall be established two District Courts,
one for the election District of Charleston,
and ono for the District Of Berkeley. The
Judge Of each District Court shall receive
from tho Treasurer Of tho State salary of
five hundred dollars year, payable quarter.
ly, and he shall be entitled, for a further COM
pcnsation, to receive, annually, from the Dis
trlct Court fund, as hereafter prescribed, m,
additional sum, to be paid quartcrly of his
own draft as follows For Abbcville District,
seycn hundred dollars; Barnwell District,
seven hundred dollars Collcton District, one
thousand dollars; Chester District, five hun
dred dollars; Darlington District, five hundred
dollars Edgcfcld District, eight hundred dol.
lars Fairfield District, five hundred dollars
Georgetown, one thousand dollars I.aurcns
District, five hundred dollars; Ncwbcrry Dis
trict five hundred dollars; Orangcburg Die
trict, five hundred dollars Richlaud District,
one thousand dollars Sumter District seven
hundred dollars; Union District, FIVE hun
drcd dollars York District, f,e hundred dol
lars; Williamsburg District, five hundred
dollars; Berkeley Election District, one thous-
and dollars Charleston Election District, one
thousand dollars Beaufort District one thous
and dollars; kcrshaw District, five hundred
dollars; and for the District Judge of each of
the other Judicial Districts of this State, five
hundred dollars Provided howcrcr, That in
case the District Court Fund in any District
shall prove insufficient for the purpose for
such additional compensation as herein provi-
dcd, no claim for the whole or any part of
such additional compensation, upon the Treas
ury OF the State shall arise by reason of such
dciicicncy And pyouidcs, also, That the
time when the salaries herein provided for
shall commence shall be when tho Court is
organized and the Judge empowered to exc
cute this Act
SIC. 2. That the Districts Courts heretofore
established by law be organized by the Judg-
cs 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. g. The Clerk and Sheriff Of the scy.
cral Judicial Districts of the State shall act as
the Clerk and Sheriff of the District Court
or Courts within their respective Districts
and may perform their duties in person or by
deputy The Judge, Clerk and Sheriff of
District Court shall each, before entering on
the duties Of his office, take the official oath
prescribed by the Constitution of the State,
and also the oath or oaths required specially
to be taken by the incumbcnts Of such Offices
i'll the Superior Courts.
SEC 4. That the District Court shall have
exclusive jurisdiction, subject to the right of
app al to the Appeal Court, in all cases of
larceny and misdemeanor, in all cases of va
grancy, and in all cases of bastardy, arising
within the limits Of tho Election District in
which they are established.
SEC. $. All prosecutions in the District
Court shall be conducted by the Attorney
General or by the Solicitor Of the Circuit to
which tho District Courts belongs, or by
deputy appointed by such Attorney. General
or Solicitor, or, in the absence of these, by an
Attorney appointed by the District Judge.
SEC. g. The District Court shall have con-
current jurisdiction, subject to appeal as afore-
said, with the Court Of Common Pleas in all
civil causes in which the title to land is not in
vowed, and in which the debts sued for or the
amount of damages claimed, does not exceed
one hundred dollars, and the sum which lin
its the proceedings by summary process in
all Courts Of Law, is enlarged to ono hundred
dollars, exclusive of costs, and exclusive ju-
risdiction in oil matters of contract between
employer and employee nastor and apron
ticc, where the amount exceeds twenty dol
lars
SEc. T. The Judge Of tho District Court
shall be invested with power to examine and
supervise all prosecutions commitments and
warrants of arrest commenced before or issued
by any Magistrate within his District for any
misdcmcanor. And itshall be his duty, upon
application made to him, to examine into the