The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-01-17
Acts Passed by the Legislature.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the authori-
ty Of the same, That SO much of an Act
entitled sAn Act to amend an Act enti-
= tied AN Act to establish District Courts, :"
ratified the twenty first day Of Septem-
= ber, one thousand eight hundred and Blk
ty-six. as requires the drawing and en-
naneline. of Grand Juries for the District
Courts. be, and the same is hereby, re-
+. nealed. and all persons already drawn
and summoned to attend said District
Court as Grand Jurors are hereby re-
lieyed of, the duty. so attending.
~ III. That no presentmenG OF a Grand
Jury shall be necessary in any case IN the
said District Courts, but it shall be tho
duty of the Attorney General and Selici-
tors, after enquiry into the facts Of each
case. to prepare bills of Indictment and
present the same, with the papers per-
tanning thereto, to the District Judge for
his examination, who shall order the same
to be docketed for trial, if in his Judgment
the prosecution thereof be advisable.
III. That the Juries in the District
Court shall consist of one Jury of eight
Jurors at each Quarterly Session, and the
yenire therefor shall consist Of panel of
sixteen; and it shall be the duty of the
District Judge, at each Quarterly Session,
q, order the drawing, in open Court, Of
the Jurors to constitute the panel of the
yenire for the succeeding term.
L.. c1ou ha IL
ate Jury Box for the District Courts,
which shall be filed. from time to time,
and the drawing therefrom be conducted
in the Same manner as by law required
for the Superior Courts and in reference
TO the said Juries of the District Courts,
the manner of summoning them, the du-
ties and liabilities of the officers of the
Court, and the penalties for non-atten-
dance, and in all other respects the Jury
law ofthe State shall apply.
Y. That in drawing Jurors to consti-
,tute the panel Of the venire, it shall be
competent for the District Judge to direct
the rejection at the time of drawing OF
the names Of persons who are known or
believed to be dead, not resident in the
District, over seventy years Of age, or in
any manner disabled from discharging
the duties of q Juror; and names shall be
rejected for the occasion and returned to
the box, of persons who are known to be
in the panel for the term Of the Superior
Court next ensuing the drawing, or who
have served as Jurors either in the Su-
rerior or District Courts, within twelve
months preceding the drawing
VI. That to constitute the Juries in the
District Court for. the term next succeed
ing in passing of this Act, and for which
the yenire has already been issued, the
District Judge shall order the drawing OF
sixteen from the number of those sum-
moned and in attendance, which number
so drawn shall constitute the panel for
chat term, and from them shall be drawn
those who shall serve as the Jury of that
term. And in any District such venire
shall not. have been already issued, the
District Judge shall order special Court
for the drawing, and shall order the venire
in accordance with the provisions of this
Act.
VII. That in the District Court, each
party in. civil action, and the accused
and the prosecuting officer in q criminal
matter, shall be entitled to challenge each
two Jurors; and the places of those chal-
lenged shall be supplied from the super
numeraries.- An insufficient number OF
Jurors, in any instance, shall be supplied
in like manner as in the Superior Court.
- VIII. a traverse of anindictment shall
not. in the District Courts, Of itself oper-
ate to continue the case.
TX. That the concluding paragraph OF
the eleventh Section in the words "and
in the District of Beaufort, where the
Court shall be held alternately at the
Court House in the town Of Beaufort and
at Lawtonville," be repealed.
x. In civil causes the defendant shall
berentitled to an Importance to the sue
ceeding Quarterly Term of the Court.
3 XI. The Superior Court of Equity and
the. District Court shall have concurrent
jurisdiction in all cases of Equity, and the
Superior Courts of Law and the District
Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction
of all cases in law, civil and criminal, OF
which, by the Constitution, the said Dis
trict Courts have Jurisdiction.
XII. That in all cases now commenced
in the District Court for services, where
the amount due is over one hundred
dollars, the case shall be transferred to
the Court of Common Pleas.
XIII. Matters of Equity pending in
the District Court shall be heard by the
District Judge at a Quarterly Session, or
at such other time as, with his concur.
renee, the parties may fix, with an appeal
as from a Chancellor on Circuit. With
respectto these matters, the Commissioner
in Equity for the District shall regard
the Judge of the District Court as ne does
q Chancellor, with respect to matters IN
tho Superior Court of Equity, and in both
of these Courts the law practice, tees,