The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-02

Of railroad commissioners Witnesses in all cases
before said board shall be allowed the same fees
us i'll the supreme judicial court
Improved March 4, 1885.
Chapter 323.
AN ACT to increase the salary of the County At
torney of Waldo County.
Be II ennctcd, rfc., az follows:
Section /. Section two of chapter one hundred
and fifteen OF tn revised statutes is hereby amend
Ell by striking out the word two in the fifteenth
line of said section, and inserting in place thereof
the word three that said section, when
amended in said fifteenth line, shall read: Waldo
three hundred and fifty dollars.
Section 2 This act shall take effect when ap-
proved. approved March i, 1885.
Chapter 3l3.
AN ACT to amend section sixty-fve of chapter
seventy OF the Revised Statutes, relating to the
payment of fees in insolvency
lie II CnGcted, &C. Is follows:
Section |. Section sixty-iive of chapter severEy
of the revised statutes, is hereby amended by strk
ing out all after the word estates in the third
line OF SAID section, and adding thereto and if
there are not sufficient assets for the payment of
the fees and costs the person upon whose petition
the warrant is issued, shall pay the same, and the
may issue an execution against him to com
pei payment to the register, so that said section,
amended. shall read as follows:
Section o. The fees of all officers, the compen-
sttol of assignees and of judges and registers of
probate, under this chapter, shall be established
by the supreme l,iical court, and shall be paid
out of the Estates and if there are not sufficient
assets for the payment of the fees and costs, the
person upon Whose petition the warrant is issued
shall pay the same, and the court may issue an
ecution against him to compel payment to the reg
ister.'
Section 9. This act snail not apply to pending
proceedings. approved March 4, 1885,
Chnpter 324.
AN ACT to facilitate the prompt administration
of justice by establishing Superior Court in
the county of AroostoOk.
Be 1t enactcd, etc, as follows:
Sc ton |, superior court is hereby establish
ed within and for the county of Aroostook, con-
ssting of justice, who shall be an inlabitant of
said county, of sobriety Of manners and learned in
the law; he shall be appointed. commissioned and
qualified according to the constitution.
Section 2 Said justice shall establish seal for
said court; and all wrts and processes issuing
therefrom shall be in the name of the state, of
the usual forms, bearing the teste of said justice,
under the seal of said court, and shall be signed by
its clerk; they shall be obeyed and executed
throughout the state
Section 3. The clerk for the time being of the
supreme judicial court in said county, shall also be
clerk OF said superior court and shall receive for
his services SUCH the fees allowed other CLERKS
Tor simil II services in the supreme jud cia court.
He shall appoint deputy approved by said justice,
who shall act as clerk Of said superior court, when
ever said court and the supreme judicial court hap
pen both to be in session in said county; and when
ever said clerk OF the supreme judicial court is alb
sent, or the Office is vacant said justice may ap-
point one to supply the vacancy during such alb
seuce, or until an appointment IS made by the gov
ernot and council, or by the supreme judicial
coart.
Section 4. The sheriff of the county of Aroos-
took shall attend said superior court, unless the
supreme judicial court sha be i'll session Ill SAID
county, in which case he shall specially designate
deputy, approved by said justice of said superior
court, so to attend And whenever itshall happen
that said jus ice is prevented from attending at the
time and place at which said court, by law or by
adjournment, ought to be held said sheriror such
deputy shall, by oral proclamation adjourn said
court from day to day until such Justice shall at
tend
Section 5. Within said county. said superior
court shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction of
civil appeals from municipal courts, police courts
and trial Justices exclusive original jurisdiction of
actions of scire facias on judgments and recogni-
Ztnces not exceeding two hundred dollars. of all
ha3tardy trials, and all other civil actions at law
not exclusively cognizable by municipal courts, DO
lice courts. Snnd trial justices, where the damages
demanded do not exceed two hundred dollars, ex-
cept complaints for fowage and real actions, and
concurrent original jurisdiction of proceedings in
habeas corpus, of actions of respass quare claus
UNI, and of all other civil actions at law when the
damages do not exceed five hundred dollars ex-
ccpt complaints for dowage and real actions
Section g. Said court shall be held the first
Tuesdays of December and May at Caribou, and
on the first Tuesdays of November and April, at
itouiton. Travers2 jurors shall be drawn and re-
turned to serve at said terms, in the supreme ju-
dcial court except that the same jurors may be re-
CURED by the Justice to for two successive
terms and that jurors shall be drawn or returned
for the April term eighteen hundred and eighty
five, of said court. If the plaintiff desires dry trial.
he shall indorse the upon his writ at the time
of entry. I, Q defendant shall. within fourteen
days after entry, file his pleadings, and if the
plaintiff has not demanded jury, the defendant
shall inlorse OH his plea his demand for juryi fine
desires one. Whenever jury shall be SO demand
ed by either party the clerk shall enter that fact
on the docket and all ether cases, not appeals,
shall be tried by the Justice without the interven.
ton of Jury subject to exceptions in matters of
law, in term time, or if both parties desire, at
chambers. Whenever, by accident or mistake, the
plaintiff fails to indorse upon his writ at the time
of entry request for jury trial. or if the defend
ant bv accident or mistake, shall fail to indorse