The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-06-18
COUNTY COURT BILL.
CIAPTER. IIX

CHAPTER Liz.
in ACT to establish county court and
board Of commissioners for The county
OF Mason, under the th;rty-fourth sect
ion OF the eighth article OF the constitu-
ton OF tho State OF West Virginia, in lieu
OF the present county court OF said
county.
Passed March s, $780,
BE it enacted by the Legislature CT West Virginia:
l. In the county OF Mason tho county
court shall be held by judge who shall
be called the judge OF the county court
After the election hereinafter provided, he
shall be commissioned by the governor
and shall receive a salary Of eight hundred
dollars year, which shall be paid out OF
the county treasury OF said county in quar-
terly installments. His term OF office shall
be four years, except as to tho Judge first
to be elected under this act, who shall con-
time in office until the thirty-irst day OF
December, III the year one-thousand eight
hundred and eighty-four, and until his
successor is elected or appointed and quail
fed And on the second Tuesday in Oct
ober, in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-four, and on the second
Tuesday in October il every fourth year
thereafter, Il Judge for the county court of
said county shall be elected, whose term
OF office shall commence on the first day of
January next after his election and CON
tinue until his successor is elected, or APP
pointed and qualified. But no person
Shall be elected or appointed to said Office
not discreet and learned in the law, or who
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der this state or the United States, or who
is not at the time Of his election or APP
pointment citizen OF said county OF at
least one years residence,
2. The county judge may be removed
from office i'll the manner provided by the
eighteenth section OF article eight OF the
constitution, for the causes therein men
toned, and may be impeached in the
manner and for the causes presented iii
the ninth section OF article four OF the con-
stitution.
3. II the office of county Judge shall
from any cause become vacant, it shall be
filled by appointment by the governor for
the uneXpired term.
4. ii the election OF county Judge be
contested, it shall be contested, tried and
determined in the manner provided by
law in relation te. contested election OF
judge OF circuit court, but the court to
try the contest must sit within said county
at the courthouse
s. The sud county court shall have the
same jurisdiction as is conferred by the
constitution and laws upon the existing
county courts, except as to q levy upon
the property OF the county. The Judge oil
said court in vacation, shall exercise the
same powers within said county, as are
now conferred upon the judges OF the cir
cult courts, and may allow appeals from
justices but he shall not grant appeals,
writs OF error, and sperSededs to DEGREES
and judgments OF the circuit courts, nor
dissolve any injunction Of the circuit court,
nor reverse or correct any judgment OF the
same.
g. Chapter one hundred and twenty-nine
acts OF one thousand eight hundred and
seyenty-two and three, shall apply to said
county court in the same manner that it
does to the circuit courts.
Z. There shall be four sessions of the
court held in the said county during the
year, and grand juries may be summoned
70 attend to any term thereof that the judge
may direct, and after being sworn shall be
charged by the judge.
s. There sh.ll be a board OF commits
sioners in said coulty, consisting OF three
members, to be known as the BOARD OF
Commissioners OF Mason County" by
which name they may sue ana be sued,
make and use common seal, and enact
ordinances and bylaws not inconsistent.
with the laws Of this state. They shall
hold regular meetings on the third Mon
days OF July and December in each year,
at the court house, and may hold special
meetings at any time upon reasonable no.
tice given by the president to other mem
bers, or upon like notice given by any
two members TO the other member. They
may also hold adjourned meetings. They
shall elect one Of their number president
of the board, and the clerk OF the county
court shall be ca otTicio clerk OF the board OF
commissioners. The clerk shall keep n
journal OF their proceedings, aud transact
such other business us may by law or by
lie shall be paid such fixed sum as the
board may, by an order entered on its
journal, determine, to be paid quarterly
from the county treasury, but not to ex-
coed two hundred dollars a year. The said
board shall have the superintendent and
administration OF the internal police and
fiscal affairs OF said county, including the
regulation OF roads, ways, bridges, public |
landings, ferries and mills, the granting OF
ordinary and other licenses, with authori-
" to lay and disburse the county levies.
The board shall, in all contested cases,
Judge OF the election, qualification and re-
turns OF its own members, and OF all coun-
ty and district officers, except county Judge,
and shall exercise such other jurisdiction
and perform such other duties rs may be
prescribed by law.
8. The president of the county court in
said county, elected for the term beginning
ON the first day OF January, one thousand