The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-07-02
Passed March s. 1897


OF the present county court Of said
county
Passed March s. 1921
seit enacted by the Legislature Ct Yves, Virginia:
/. In the county Of Mason the 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 q salary OF eight hundred
dollars year, which shall be paid out OF
the county treasury Of saidcounty in quar-
terly installments. His term Of office shall
be four years, except as TO the judge first
to be elected under this act, who shall con-
tinue in Office until the thirty-frst day OF
December, in 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
bred and eiehty-four, and on the second
Tuesday in October in every fourth year
thereafter, Judge for the county court Of
said county shall be elected, whose term
OF office shall commence on thefirst day OF
January next alter his election and con-
tinue until his successor is elected, or ap-
pointed and qualified. Bet no person
shall be elected or appointed to said office
not discreet and learned in the law, or who
holds any other Office OF trust or profit I'M
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
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eighteenth section Of article eight ofthe
constitution, for the causes therein men
toned, and may be impeached in the
manner and for the causes presented in
the ninth section OF article four OF the con-
stitution.
8. 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 to contested election OF
Judge OF circuit court, but the court to
try the contest must sit within said county
at the courthouse.
S. The said county court shall have the
same jurisdiction as is conferred by the
constitution and laws upon the existing
county courts, except as to levy upon
Improperly OF the county. The Judge OF
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 supersedeas to DEGREES
and judgments OF the circuit courts, nor
dissolve any injunction ofthe 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-tSo and three, shall apply to said
county court in the same manner that it
does to the circuit courts.
l. Z. There shall be four sessions OF the
court held in the said county during the
year, and grand juries may be summoned
to attend to any term thereof that the Judge
may direct, and after being sworn shall be
charged by the Judge.
| s. There shall be board OF commits
sioners in said county, consisting OF three
members, to be known as the Board of
Commissioners OF Mason County, by
which name they may sue and 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 ero6icio clerk OF the board OF
commissioners. The clerk shall keep
journal OF their proceedings, and transact
such other business as may by law or BY
the board be required, for which services
he 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 year The said
board shah have the superintendence 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-
| " W NY anu ulhuuTSe -tue county levleS
The board shall in all contested cases.
judge Of the election, qualification and re.
turns OF its own members, and of all coun-
tyand 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
eight hundred and seventy.seven, shall be
the president OF the board Of commission
ers during the term for which he was elect
ed president Of the county court. The
term Of Office Of commissioner shall be two
wears, except as to the first commissioners
TO be elected under this act, who shall CON
tinue in Office until the thirty-frst day Of
December, one thousand eigns hundred
and eighty, and until their successors are
elected or appointed and qualified; and on
the second Tuesday in October, in the wear
one thousand eight hundred and eighty,
and on the second Tuesday in October, in
every second year thereafter, there shall
be three commissioners elected in said
county, whose term of Office shall COM
mence on the first day OF January next af-
ter their election, and continue until their
successors are elected or appointed and
qualified. But no two commissioners shall
be elected or appointed from the same