Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-19

court. or whenever said judge of said court shall be unable to sit upon any case. either f through sickness absence or any 0thee cause, or whenever said judge of said court shall have any matter peuding before him. which ! that he should try or dispose of. then said judge of said court shall cave full power to < call in some iudgeSof the court of common pleas for any county, who shall have power k to hear and determine such case or cases, pro vided, however, that when any judge of the court of common pleas shall be cslled to act ! as as judge aforesaid, then said judge shalhbe entitled to have his expenses paid him, by the
 sheriff or deputy sheriff attending said court, ! and said officer shall be entitled to have the same texed in the bills of the court proyid- | ed, further that if the parties to said action | shall Ile written agreement with the clerk of said district coort waiving all onJections to said judge of said district court acting in such matter, snch cause may be heard by said judge If 8ny vacancy occurs in the office of judge for said district, by death or otherwise, the chief 2udge, or in cose of his absences sick ness or death the senior jndge, of the supreme court of errors, on being notified thereof by
 the clerk of the district court, shall assign and direct some judgeof the superior o0urtto hold the term or terms of said district court, until said vacancy IS filled. 5liA5 sl GoIlns5iA Seccs 16., All writs and processes returpable l to said district court shali be served at least twelve days, inclusive before the sitting of the court. 9a{ ss.3 B. slua sr tpstad iIeFs5 Sec. 17. The county commissioners for the county of Litchfeld shall provide such sufficient and proper places, and court rooms for said courtsRnd such other accommodations as may be necessary The expense of such places, rooms and accommodations at Winehis ter by the town of Winchester at New Mil ! ford by the town of New Milford !; and at Ca- naau by the town of Canean and said com mtssloners shall draw oIders on said towns Tor thehmount necessary to pay in accordance hereof which oraers shall be made payable to the clerk of eaid court, aud the towns on which said orders shall be drawn, shall be li- able to pay the same Said clerk on collect ing said orders shall pay to those entitled the amounts collected; .provided, said county commissioners shall lave no power to purch- ase or build court houses or other buildings for said court.
 Sec. Is. All cases in law or in equity, which shall be pending before the superior aourt for
 the county of Litchfield on the first Tuesday of November, 1872, and upon which there shall have been no trial on said day. either by court, jury auditor or committed, and which are within the exclusive jurisdiction of said district court as hereinbefofe provided, and all appeals from justices of the peace, whose courts were held within said judicial district, as herein created, pending iti said superior at any time thereafter, and before
 trial or assignment for trial, upon motion of either party, to said district court aud shsIl
 be entered upon the docket of said district court and shall thereafter be proceeded with to final judgment and execution by said court and the judgement and decree of said last
 mentioned court thereon shall be binding, valid and conclusive,
 Sec. 19 the jurors for the trial of causes
 in said district court, shall be taken from the
 inhabitants O. the several towns in, said judi cial district, chosen according to lew, incInd- .ng justice jnrors, as vel ss those to serve in
 the superior cogyt, and the jurors shall be
 summoned and drawn in the same manner as is by Iaw provided in regard to the summon
 tug of jurors in the superior court.
 Sec. 20. The forms of writs OF summons,
 attachments and execytious, in all causes brought before said district court may be the same az those allowed by law to 5e used ih proceedings before the superior court.i with the snbstitutiods of the words, s'the district court for the district og Litchfeld county, for the words e1perior court, whenever the iater tesM is used to designate the conrt whenever the latter teTm ls used, to designate the court with such other substitptions aud additions, as shall ae necsssaxy to properly designate court sud district. IAe court fees and taxable
 biIs of cost, in sai9 district court shall be
 the ssp,e es in tha superior court. Only
 three days attendance shall he taxed against
 sny csse soT any term. held where said case
 is nos to Do tried by he psovisiOds of this net
 unless ouch case is tried or designed for trial
 in sccOrGsacs hereof aad she fact thst any
 case is not 70 be tRiea :t ths place where any
 teria of said court ie teIA sheh be good cause
 for ths continuance Of said case to the next
 tes- cs tke cou1t The (lsrk ol said court
 ansn Crow orders Eok tue bills which may be
 ta-e6 hy the judge of seid court, for atten-
 dance. stationery. and othe7 current expenses
 os eai1 cOvEt, in tue seme Inanner as such
 crcegS eYe drawn ny the clerks of the superior
 court, and said clerk shall account for, and
 pay ever 60 the treasurer of the stste, all
 court fees sccEaiRg ia said Glistrict court, in
 .ha eacae pAannes. and at the same time, as is
 provided by saY fer clerks of the superior
 oonss. -'s H'ftii" 95 aoaf
 Aee. .aa. Ea;a district court shsll not natural
 iae 0s ieSus sassers of naturalization to any
 pereo1 CT secesFe the declaration of intention
 of say pesson to become citizen of the Uni tsA Etetee. ,3 | & < ysH eEF
 Zee, as. 1he scs entitled 'An act in, alsers-
 tion oE an ect selating 70 juatice courts" ap-
 proved July 12. 1872, prescribing to what
 conzs appeals from final Judgments of justic-
 es os the peace shall be had and allowed, shall
 not rDpiy Go appeals from the final judgments
 of ;ustices of the peace within aaid judicial
 dist.ic4, but the same shall be had and allow
 cd Co eaid pissrict court as provided in this
 act. ...r s..E5 .- .ti....,.. ..-,.tet
 Sec. 2.. It shall be the duty of the select
 men of each of the towns of Barkhamsted
 Bridgewater, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall,
 Kent. New Hartford, New Nilfork, Norfolk,
 North Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, Washing
 ton and winchester in said Li]chheld county, to provide ballot bsxes at the annual town meeting of seId towns to be held on the first
 Monday of October, 1872,, at each voting pre- cincti in theiI respective gowns, which ballot l.. q A.lH 4rxrN tries Court" At the annual town meeting, held on the first Monday of October l672, eT- cry person, by law entitled to vote in town meetings in said towDs, may deposit 8 ballot iu such boxes, with the word "yes" or the word "no," written or printed thereon; and
 the ballot boxes in each of said gowns, for the purpose of receiving said ballots shall De open from the hour of opening in the morning un- til five o o'clock in the afternoon of said day and shall be attended by some proper person appointed by said selectmen. The ballots so cast shall be counted and the result shall be declared and returned cy the towu clerks of the several towns to the secretary of state in
 the manner mntatis mutandis, now provided
 for the counting and return of ballots cast on
 the first Monday of April, in each year for
 state officers i, and tho returns from said towns shall be canvassed by the secretary of state, treasurer and comptroller, on or befors the
 26th day of October, 1872: and they shall make and publish in the newspapers printed | in Litchfield county cef3ificate over their signatures setting forth the total number of affirmative and negative ballots cast under the provisions of this section, and also the names and the number of said towns in which Q ma
 !ority of ballots cast are in the affirmative and | the names aud number towns in which ma II iority of ballots cast are in the negative and shall also send their certificate of the same 1 facts to the judge of said district court fla
 majority of all the ballots cast in al said towns I shall be in the affirmative and if tenpf said towns shall severally vote in the affirmative,
 then said act shall be approved, in accordance with section two of this act sotherWise 1t shall I not be approved. t..r,s f.ss8 ..,,.,,, 4gs...s 1 Sec. N. The provisions of law now applic- | able to fraudulent voting at electors meeting shall be held operative niutatis mutahdis at the balloting to be held under the provisions of