The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-03-25
CITY COURT BILL
Is Published in the Official
State Paper.
IT Is NOW IN FORCE
Full Text of the Provisions of
the New Law.

| sas, and defining the jurisdiction thereof
| and the powers and duties of the officers
| thereof, and limiting the jurisdiction
thereof and the jurisdiction of the jus
tees of the peace Of said Wichita city
township, and creating a judge, a clerk
and marshal of said court and defining
their duties, and providing for the APP
pointment and the election of the judge,
the clerk and the marshal of said court,
and providing for their salaries and pay
ment thereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
Section / In Wichita city township,
Sedgwick county, Kansas. is hereby Gre
ated and established court TO be called
the city court of Wichita" Said court
shall have one presiding judge, whose style
of office shall be Judge of the city court"
and said court shall have one clerk, whose
style of Office shall be clerk of the city
court" and said court shall have one mar
shall, whose style of office shall be mar
shall of the city court"
Section g The court hereby established
shall, under the limitations and restric-
tons herein provided, have original juris-
diction of civil actions for the recovery of
money only, and to try and determine the
same, where the amount claimed does not
exceed six hundred dollars; and the court
hereby established shall have jurisdiction
of actions for the recovery o.. specific per-
sonal property not exceedinc three hun
dred dollars in value, as hereinafter pro-
vlded. IN all other respects the said court
hereby established shall have the same
jurisdiction, civil and criminal as justices
of the peace now have in this state, and
for the purpose of the jurisdiction hereby
conferred, and its proper and necessary
exercise, all laws of this state relating
to the powers, duties and Jurisdiction of
justices of the peace, and practice, plead
ings and proceedings in justice courts
which are not in conflict with the provis-
ions Of this act, shall apply to said city
court and the judge thereof, and to the
mode of practice therein, and to the power
thereof, original, n1esne and final, so far as
the same may be applicable; provided, that
after this act shall take effect justices of
the peace in said Wichita city township
shall have no jurisdiction of any case. civil
or criminal, except in civil actions for the
recovery of money only where the amount
claimed, exclusive of costs. does not ex-
coed the sum of one dollar: but this act
shall not apply to any suit or proceedings
pending before said justices OF the peace
at the time this act takes effect nor 10 the
enforcement of judgments heretofore rem
dered by them.
Section 8. All writs and processes of
every kind in cases brought or pending in
RI no he ht-t oIo,
thereof, or in case of his absence, or being
otherwise engaged, then by the judge
thereof, in the name of the clerk, in the
same manner as such writs and processes
are issued by the clerk of the district
court
Section 4. That the office Of judge, clerk
and marshal of said court are hereby Gre
ated, whose terms of Office respectively
shall commence with the date OF their
election, and who shall hold their office for
the term of two years. and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified as provi-
ded by this act. Provided further, that it
shall be unlawful for the judge of said
court to engage in the practice of law in
any of the courts of the state Of Kansas
during his said term of office.
Section 5. Said judge. clerk and marshal
shall at the time of their election be quail
flied voters Of the city of Wichita and shall
reside therein during their term of office,
and the judge of said court shall be a law
yer regularly admitted to practice law IN
the district courts of Kansas.
Section s. All writs and processes issued
by the judge or clerk Of said court shall be
directed to the marshal OF said court or 10
the sheriff of said county. or when proper
to the sheriff of adjoining or other counties
in said state, and shall be executed and
by such officer in the same man
ner in all respects as now provided by law
in relation to writs and processes issued !
by the clerk of the district court.
Section :. The judge of said court shall
receive pay for his services a salary Of one /
thousand five hundred dollars per year, and /
the clerk Of said court shall receive for his (
services a salary Of six hundred dollars per /
year. and said marshal of said court shall I
receive pay for his services a salary OF nine {
hundred dollars per year. SUCH salaries +
shall be paid BY Sedgwick county in the I.
same manner as the county officers are !.
paid
Section S. The clerk Of said court shall I
record the proceedings of said court, make /
out all wits, processes and other papers .
necessary 10 be signed or issued by said 1
clerk or judge, administer oaths required 4
IN judicial and other proceedings before .
such court or the judge thereof. dle al .
papers in cases pending in said court, /
docket cases and set the same FOR trial. /
and he shall perform such other clerical {
duties in relation 70 the proceedings liz said /
court as may be directed by said judge
Section g said court shall keep a civil .
and criminal docket. which shall be fur
nishad by said SedEwick county. il Ehlch /
docket must De entered hy the clerk OF The
Judge every case brought 1r pending II
said court and all the proceedings had or
done therein in the same manner ~ al
respects as IS provided by law relating %
the docket OF justices Of the peace. and
said Se5gHick county shah furnish al nee
sssary and proper stationery for The US q
sad court
Section % The county commissioners y
said Sedgwick county shan provide s1ita-
BE rooms for holding said c1grt II sad
city. and provide for suitable furniture
fuel and Iights and AL other necessary m
,lden;al expenses for said court
Section Il. II any CIV case brought fl
sad court change % venue may be -ase1
10 the d.ctrict court OF S=1-w.ck county.
Kansas. upon the sppiics IA ~ e5tAe-
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