Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-03-18

The following act has passed both
Houses of Assembly the House
amendments being concurred in by
the Senate yesterday, and it will be
found important, not only to Judges
and Lawyers, but to the people gene
rally:
An act to regulate and define the juris-
dicti0n of the County and Circuit
Courts to prescribe the number OF
terms of the Circuit Courts, and to
| tir the pay OF County Judges.
| l. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly, That the County Courts may
grant letters of administration, admit
wills to probate, appoint guardians, Gu
ratOrs, and committees, and shall
have jurisdiction to hear and deter
I mine al motions and other matters
made specially cognizable therein by
any statute.
2. The County Court shall likewise
have jurisdiction of all presentments,
informations and indictments for mis-
demeanors.
8. The County Court shall execute
and enforce, by proper process and in
the manner provided by law, every
judgment, decree or order heretofore
entered therein, and shall supervise,
correct and enforce in like mannerany
rule taken, or order, or entry or ell
dOrscment made by the clerk of said
Court.
f. The Circuit Court shall have the
same jurisdiction as is provided by
In, Ti,x- I, fol 1 af-
feet and shall, in addition, have eX-
elusive original jurisdiction for the
trial of indictments for feionies and
for cases of contested elections which
may be cognizable by any court.
5. In every year there shall be three
regular terms of the Circuit Court in
each county of this State; and special
terms of Circuit Courts may be held
as now provided by law.
6. All causes at law and in chancery
pending in the County Court OH the
day this act takes effect, of which said
court has no jurisdiction under this act
shall he removed to the Circuit Court
for such county, and the clerk of the
County Court is hereby directed to de-
liver to the clerk of the Circuit Court
for such County the original papers,
complete, of all such causes at law and
in chancery so removed, with the
copies of all rules and orders made
and not found in said original papers,
and a statement of the costs incurred
by each party therein, and shall, enter
on the order book of the County Court
the disposition made of said causes
and the clerk of the Circuit Court is
hereby directed to receive and file in
the office of his said court the papers
so removed, and the said causes shall
stand in all respects as they stood in
the County Courts, and like proceed
ings shall be had and process issued as
if said causes had been originally COM
menced in the Circuit Courts. The
costs of such removal shall be borne
equally by both parties.
Z. The County Judge shall receive,
after the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy-fOur, a salary of
two hundred dollars, and an addition
al compensation of twenty dollars for
every thousand inhabitants over ten
thousand. to be determined by refer
ence to the census of eighteen hun
dred and seventy, and afterwards to
the last preceding official enumeration
of the inE abitants of this State, aud
in such computation the fraction of a
thousand population shall not he cOun-
ted, which shall be a charge on the
county and be levied, collected, and
accounted for in the same manner that
other county expenses are; and when
judge is judge of more than one
county. each county in the district
shall pay in proportion to the inhabi-
tants thereof, and the mileage allowed
by law shall be charged equally upon
the counties of the district.
s. The judges of the County Courts
shall be privileged (if licensed lawyers
to appear rs attorneys at law in any
case not pending in their courts, or
which may be carried into or from
their conrts by appeal.
o. It shall he the duty of the County
judges elected under the provisions of
this act in the exercise of the duty i'm
posed upon them by the 9th section
of chapter rs of acts of Assembly of
1869 and 20 to appoint at least one
judge of election, who can read and
write, at each election precinct in his
county for each political party.
10. This act shall be in force on and
from the first day of August, eighteen
hundred and seventy three.