Litchfield enquirer., 1870-10-13
PUBLIC ACTS.
PASSED MAY SESSION, 1870.
FROM LAST WEE

CONTINUED FROM LAST wEEK.]
 Sec. 8. The judge and clerk of the court of com. mon pleas shall have the same powers in regard to eases depending before or returnable to said court, as are at present, or may be, by law given to the judges and clerks of the superior court and all statutory provisions regarding the trial dispositions of. and modes of proceeding in cases in the superior court. shall also be applicable to cases in the court of common pleas, except it be otherwise herein provided.
 Sec. 8. The judge of the court of common pleas shall appoint clerk and an assistant clerk of such court, who shall, before entering upon the duties of their office. take the oath prescribed for execu- tive and judicial officers. and give bonds to the treasurer of the state in the sum of one thousand dollars each, similar to those required from clerks Of the superior court; said clerk and assistant clerk shall have the same power, be subject to the same duties and obligations, and be entitled to the same fees as those pertaining to the clerks of the superior court. Proper dockets shall be made and kept by the clerk of the courts brought in said county and the court shall have its proper seal to be used under the direction of the court in all mat ters in winch a seal is required.
 Sec. 10. The judge of the court of common pleas, from time to time, shall assign for trial by days, the cases on thei docket of said court, in the order in which they stand thereon; and the
 trial of no case shall be postponed after it is so as- signed, unless by the court upon good and suf- hcient reasons being given; and the engagement of counsel in other professional duties, shall not, in ordinary cases, be a reason for such postpone ment.
 Sec. Il. Cases proper to be tried to the jury may be entered on the jury docket at the first term, and not thereafter, except by consent of the parties or by order of the court for cause shown. The jury for the court of common pleas, shall be summoned upon direction or order of the judge of the court who shall exercise his discretion as to the time and term where the jury shall be sum- moned, but there shall not be less than four jury terms in each year, if there remain any cases for trial on the jury docket.
 Sec. 12. The sheriff of said county shall attend upon the sessions of said court shall perform the same duties and be entitled to the same privileges and fees that are prescribed for him in the supe- ri0r court; and whenever said sheriff shall be ne- cessarily absent he shall appoint, with the con- sent of the judge. deputy sheriff to act in his place.
 Sec. 13. The judge of said court of common assembly, and the salary of said judge shaI be the same as that of either of the judges of the Courts of common pleas in the counties of Hartford and New Haven, payable quarterly from the treasury of the state, on and after the 1st Monday of Sep tember, 1870.
 Sec. 14. Whenever the judge of the court of common pleas shall be legally disqualified to act as judge in any action pending before such court, he shall remove said action to the superior court then in session, or next to be holden in said ty and the clerk of the superior court shall on re- ceipt of the files and records, and order of said judge enter said action the docket of the supe-
 or court in its proper place, to be proceeded with tried and disposed of in the same manner as if originally brought to said court but if the parties to said action shall file written agreement with the clerk of said court waiving all objections to said judge acting in such matters said cause need not be removed
 Sec. 15. Whenever the judge of the court of com mon pleas shall be unable to act at any term of the court from any cause whatever. the chief judge, or ln case of his absence sickness death the senior judge of the supreme court of errors on being notified of such fact by said judge or by sign and direct some judge of the supreme court of errors or of the superior court to hold the term of the court.
 Sec, 16. All writs and processes returnable to the court of common pleas shall be served at least twelve days inclusive before the sitting of the court
 Sec: 17. The county commissioners of NewLon- don County shall provide and make ready proper places and accommodations for holding said court ct the expense of said county.
 Sec. Is. All cases at law or in equity which shall be pending on the second Tuesday of Sept. 1870. before the superior court for said New Lon don county, and upon which there has been on said day no trial either by court or jury, commit tee and which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of common pleas herein before pro- vided and appeals from Justices of the peace pend ing in said superior court shall be transferred by said superior cOurt at any time thereafter and be- fore trial or assignment for trial upon motion of either party, to said court of common pleas and shall be entered in the docket of said court, and shall De thereafter proceeded with to final judg- ment and execution by said court and the judg- ment and decree of said last mentioned court thereon shall binding valid and conclusive.
 ocCs 4o. 4u6 JuTOTb lOE Lu6 GI1dl or causes Ill said court of common pleas shall be taken from the inhabitants of the several towns in said county chosen according to law to serve as jurors in the superior court; and the jurors shall be summoned and drawn in the same manner as is by law pro- vided in regard to the summoning of jurors in the superior court.
 Sec. 20. The forms of writs or summons attach ment and execution in causes brought before the court of common pleas, may be the same as those allowed by law to be used in proceedings before the superior court with the substitution of the words court of common pleas' for the ''superior court whensyer the latter term is used therein to designate the court. The court fees and the tax able bills of cost in the court of common pleas shall be the same as in the superior courts. The clerk of said court shall draw orders for the bill which may be taxed by the judge of said court for attendance, stationery, ,and other current expenses of said court, in the same manner as such orders are drawn by the court for and hand over to the treasurer of the state all court fees accrueing in said court in the same manner and at the same time as is provided by law fer clerks of the superi or court.
 Sec. 21. Said court of common pleas shall nat uralize or issue papers of naturalization to any person, or receive the declaration of intention of any person to become citizen of the United States.
 Approved July 12, 1870.