The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-01-24

clerk or Judges, or other officers OF Sitlti
Court shall Ice printed or written one sin
ofpaper headed District Court, on which
Z shp shall he printed written the title or
name OF the office, as for President Judge
/ president Judge of the District Court; tor
/ Associate Judges: Associate Judges OF the
District Court - for Clerk, CLERK of the
. District Court and underneath the said
headings shall be printed or written the
/ name of the person voted for, for elther OF
/ the said offices, and the returns OF Sitld elec-
! non shall be made out on the separate tally
lists aforesaid, and certified to as Is now pro
vided by law for the returns of representa-
. tives; PrOrided, That the return Judges OF
/ the several election districts Mlthlh the Ji-
! risdic.ion of the said District Court shall
/ constitute board of return Judges, with re-
spect To such election, and shall at the same
time and place of the meeting OF the return
{ Judges of the county of Cambria, proceed IN
all respects in relation to such elecllon as Is
required by the county board III the third
section of the act of July >, 1889, entitled an
act To provide for the election "t Prothono-
tirleS, etc, except that they small rouge one
OF the duplicate returns in the oince ot tie
Clerk of the said District Court, instead OF
that of the PTothonOtary OF The Court OF
Common Pleas of Cambria county.
SEC. Z. The returns and proceedings of
any contested election under this act as TO
the associate judges Of said conrt or elther"t
Them, and to the clerk of said coIlrt; shall
I've subject To the inquiry, determination and
Judgment OF The said District Court, and in
ease of Il contest as to the aEsoclnte judges or
either Of them the complaint shall be heard
and determined i'll accordance Will thc pro
visions ofthc fifteenth section of the Act OF
April Il, 1851 and any contested elections
OF Clerk of said Court shall be inquired into,
heard, and determined fy the sand Court IN
the Eiann5r provided for in the act OF july
>, 1895, regulating the method Of proceeding
in contested elections Of the several PrOthon-
diaries of the Court of Common Pleas of this
Commonwealth: and the election of any per
son as President Judge of the said District
Court may lie contested on the petition of
fifty CEIalificd voters within the jurisdiction
OF IT, said District Court, ly the same tri-
bunal and i'll the same manner and under the
same regulations and restrictions prescribed
by the act for contcSting elections to the of
fee of Governor of this Common wealth =
PrOridcd, That no Associate Judge of said
District Court shall sit as Judge thereof dur
ing the contest of his own election.
SEC. s. That il shall he the duty of the
sheriff of Cambria County. and one of the
associate Judges of the said court, To meet
thirty days before the first term of the said
court after the passage OF this act, and there
upon proceed with due diligence to select,
alternately, from the whole qualified electors
or the district within the Jurisdiction of said
District Court sufficient number of sober,
intelligent and judiCiOus persons to serve rs
grand and traverse Jurors III he said court
until the first Monday in January next, and
that the said sheriff and associate judge shall,
in the mode and manner now directed by
the laws Cf this Common wealth, place the
names of persons so selected in the proper
jury wheel, and the said jury wheel shall re-
main in the custody Of the associate judge
who attends with the sheriffin selecting and
drawing said jurors, ard the keys thereof in
the custody OF the sheriff, and like seize
ton Of jurors shall he made thirty days prior
to the January term of said court III each
and every year, at which time the said jury
wheel shall be filed aS aforesaid and the
said sheriff and one of the associate judges
aforesaid shall meet thirty day < before each
aud every term OF said court, and draw from
the proper jury wheel panels of grand and
traverse jurors for the said term, for the tri-
al of issues i'll fact, which may be taken III
any action, civil and criminal, in said Dis
trict Court in he manner now practCed and
allowed and all the provisit MS of the act OF
April 10, 1867. so far as the same are not
herein set forth, are hereby made part OF this
act PrOridCd, That the clerk of said court
shall publish the list of grand and traverse
Jurors in two newspapers published within
the jurisdiction of the said court and any
thing Inconsistent herewith in the thirteenth
section of the act to which this is supple
ment is hereby repealed.
SEC. q 1t shall be lawful TO hold two
weeks court ut each and every term of said
court, if necessary, commencing with the
next July term and the pay and mileage
of the grand and traverse jurors, ~: d wit
nesses i'll attendance At the said District
Court, shall be the same a. is now paid 10
jurors aud witnesses in attendance III the
several courts of Cambria County.
SEC. 10. That all expenses Of said court
that are incidental to the several coTnty
courts of this Commonwealth, aud now bY
law payable out of the treasures of the sew
eral counties therein, which may be
thorZed 10y the acts establishing the said
court, shall he paid cut OF the treasury of
Cambria COunty. upon orders drawn uDOu
the treasurer thereof by the associate judges
of the said court; the bills upon which said
orders drawn shall be certified by tn"
district attorney of Cambria county, or upon
which said orders are drawn shall he ccrti-
fed by the district attorney OF Cambria cOun-
ty, or in case of controversy, allowed hy th"
said court according to the practice IL such
cases, except bills for jurors fees, which shall
be certified by the clerk OF said District Court,
and bills of incidental expenses which shall
be approved by any two judges thereof; il
shall he the duty OF the said treasurer to AT
tend at each and every session of the said
court, TO perform the duties aforesaid, tor
which he shalt receive the same cOmpensa-
tion as is now allowed 10y law for simalar
services; and il shall be the duty of the sher-
if OF Cambria county. imin"diIte!y Y after the
paSSare of this act. 10 turn over to the said
treasurer the books of account relating to the
expenses of said District Court, and any
money in his hands appropriated thereto,
taking his receipt for the same, and the sew
enteenth section of the act establishing the
said District Court is hereby repealed.
SEC. H. Ii shall lie the duty of the Sher
if of Cambria county TO give notice by pro
clalnariou to the qualified electors within the
jurisdiction of the said District Courtin two
weekly newspapers, published within the
said district, of the election for Clerk of the
said District Court and also for the Judges of
the said Court whenever it becomes neCcssa-
ry to elect said Judges or any OF them. which
proclamation shall be published for the same
length of time and under the same rules and
regulations as are now in force as TO the
Sheriff proclamation for Judges and clerks
of the Courts of Cambria county, for which
he shall be paid in the same manner as pro-
vided in the tenth section of this act.
SEC. IL. That every writ for the COM
menCement of an action issued out OF the
said District Court shall bear date on the is
suing thereof and may be made returnaole
as follows, to wit On the first Monday OF
each and every month, as well as the first
day OF each and every term OF SAID Co"rf,
and such process may be directed 10 be re-
/ turned to either of the said monthly return
q li.I ll.L. - nneI hefnre lhe next term