The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-01-29

| auu htstiiSt MUMMY OuV pV'rou w ctiN'
as register recorder clerk of the court OF
quarter session and orphans court Two
persons TO serve us associate judges two
persons 10 serve as jury commits ioners three
persons to terve AS county commissioners
one for one year one for two years one for
| three years the limitation of which terms
respectively shall be determined by lot after
their election end three persons TO serve as
auditors one for one year one for two years
and one for three years the Limitation OF
their terms respectively TO be determined
in like manner as the tsrmsof said county
comnissi ioners The Governor as soon us
practicable after said election shall appoint
suitable persons TO fill tho several Offices in
this section before mentioned until their
successors are duly qualified and all officers
so elected or appointed shall be subject TO
all the requirements obligations penalties
rights privileges and duties granted or i'm
posed upon such officers generally by the
laws of this commonwealth.
| SECTION 5 That the said county of Chase
shall be and remain portion OF the SIKH
judicial district slbject 10 the laws Therein
relating to judgments lor want OF nflidavits
! OF defence and return days of process ssu-
ing from is courts TO the qualified voters OF
said county shall elect members OF Con-
gress Senators and Members Of the House
| vi Representa- as heretofore.
SECTION q That all suits ADD cases which
| shall lie psuding aud undetermined in t. o
several courts OF Crawford Venango Warren
| and Forest counties on the Monday after
said election the defendants in which at he
commencement Of such suits resiaed Within
the said county of Chase shall be transfei ed
with all things pertaining thereto 10 the
proper court of suid county to be proceeded
in as If the same had been originally CON-
menced in said courts except that the fees
| IA the same hch shall he due ut the time
OF the removal shall be paid by the officers
| OF Chase county when collected to the prop
er officers vi the county from which the trans
Ter was made and the prothonotaries Of the
counties ofCrawford VenAngo Warren aud
Forest shall oil or before the twentieth duv
succeeding said election procure dockeis ard
copy or canse to be copied therein all the
docket eniries respecting said suits so to be
iraDsfred aud on or before the forty-fifth
day succeeding said election deliver the
said dockeis togei her with all papers respet.
ting said suits apd cases to the proper ofli-
GERS of the county OF Chase the expense
thereof to be raid by the commissioners oi
said county of Chase PIo5Dc That al
wrlts remaining IN the hands OF the several
sher ifs It the counties OF Crawtorp Venango
Warren aud Forest unexecuted ON the Mon.
day succeeding said election against resi-
dents Of the said county OF Chase may be
proceeded % by them in like manner 'ns |
this act bad not heen passed and returnf
thereof shall he made IN due form of law TO
the proper officers ui the county OF Chase
SECTION ! That the sh4rid' coroner and
other olficers..o' Crawford Venango Wsrrtu
| aud Forest conGties shall co tinue to eXer
| n Sd h.ll In Hf tt,,..z
bere'Oiere within parts of Chase comfy
which before the passage OF this act were in
| the said counties respectively until similar
| officlrs-shall have been appointed and duly
| qualified.
SECTION That the commissioners sf the
county Of Chase are hereby authorized to
take assurances to them ana their successors
IN Office OF such lot Or lots Of ground in the
city OF Titnsvlle as they or n majority Of
them may approve to BIZ held for county uses
but no lax for tie purpose Of building
rourt house shall be levied for Eve years
from the date of the organization Of said
county The offtr OF the city OF Titusville
made by resolution Of the mayor and coun-
Gil ,ba. said city provi. suitable building
Ter cOnrt house shall be deemed aud taken
to he contract SO to do between said city
aud said county Of Chase dnrins the time
aforesaid
SECTION That in all cases where It may
be lawful for the sheriff conslables or j.ilur
of the county OF Chase TO hold in close Gus
tody the body Ofany person or persons in
the common Jail riOr to tho erection of a
Jail by the said county such person or per-
sons shall be committed to the city prison in
Tltusvile or the Jail of any adjouing coun-
ty as the committing magistrate the court
for any judge thereof in vacation shall di.
rect there TO Ge safely kept until disch. rged
by que course OF law and the sheriff and
constables Of Chase county shall be allowed
ten cents psr mile for the removing and Goa.
veyiug the said prisoners TO th" jail so des.
lenaled and the sheriff Or .iailor Of such ad.
joining county shall receive such prisoners
and provide for them according to law AS
for other prisoners and shall recriys from
the county oi Chase the same fees as are
by law allowed for prisoneps from their re-
speeiive counties
SECTION 10 The president Judge or the
additional law judge VI the Sixth judicial
district or some other president judge a, the
Instance of one OF them shall be required to
bold ut least fOnr terms Of court in said new
county in each year commencing on the
third Mondays in September December
March and June to continue Que week each
and such other adjourned courts AS the bus.
inrss OF said county may require consistent
with their official duties
A new well was struck on the Clark farm