The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-16

the circuit court, the chancery court
 and the county court of Coffee coun-
 ty, at Enterprise. Alabama; and to
 prescribe the jurisdiction thereof and
 regulate the proceedings therein.
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Leg islature of Alabama. That the Circuit court of Coffee county may be held in the town of Enterprise in said county on the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in January and July, and may continue one week; and that the chancery court of Coffee county may be held in tho town of Enterprise in said county on the sec ond Monday in February and August, and may continue two days; and the county court of Coffee county may be held in the town of Enterprise on the first Mondays in February. April, June, August, October. and December of each year, which terms shall continue until the causes therein are disposed of: Pro- vided, that the February term and the August term of said court shall be jury terms: and. Provided. that said court shall be open or opened at the discretion of the judge thereof any secular day of the week for the trial of criminal causes coming within it's jurisdiction: and Pro- vided, that the Enterprise division of said court shall have all the powers and jurisdiction belonging to said court. ard shall be governed and regulated by the same rules of procedure as obtain and govern in said court when held at Eiba: and provided. that before said courts shall be held in Enterprise the citizens of Coffee county residing east of the follow ing une through said county; beginning midway between the northeast and the northwest corners of the north boun- dary line of township 1, range 21 in said county, and running directly south di- viding township and township in range N into halves. to the dividing line between township and township in said range 21;, thence west along said dividing line between said townships 6 and to the southwest cor ner to said township 6; thence south along the dividing line between town ships and { in said range 1 and town ships and in range 20 to the northeast corner of township 3. range 20 in said county: thence west along the di- viding line between townships and in range 20 in said county to point mid way between the northeast corner and the northwest corner of township B. range 20 in said county; and thence south to the southern boundary line of said township 8. range 2o dividing said town .ship in halves to the east and west of said line. which said line shall be known as the dividing line between the Elba and the Enterprise jurisdictions of said courts. shall furnish free of expense to Coffee county. a suitable house in every respect within which to hold said courts, together with the necessary offices for the clerk of the circuit court. the clerk of the said county court of Coffee coun- ty. the sheriff and the register in chan cery of said county. and shall turn the same over to the Board of County Com missioners for the entire use and con trol of the county while necessary for the purposes of said courts. and shall cause one of the commissioners who is at the time member of the Board of Coun- ty Commissioners of said county to co., tify to the said Board of County Commis- sioners that said house is suitable fer said purposes, which certificate shall be sufficient evidence of the suitablenesa of said house for said purposes: and that So soon as said commissioners are furnished with said house and said certificate said courts shall be held at Enterprise, but
 Sec. 2. That the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Clerk of the County Court of Coffee county and the Sheriff and the Register in Chancery of said county shall each keep an ofice in Enterprise wherein shall be kept all the. minutes records. books and papers of the Enterprise di- vision of said courts.
 Sec. 3. That the Circuit Court of Coffee county held fin and for the Enterprise die
 
 of all civil causes of which the Circuit Court of Coffee county has Jurisdiction wherein the defendants reside in the dis frict or territory east of said dividing line or where the cause of action arose east of said dividing line and of all real actions wherein the real estate involved Is situated east of said dividing line; and of all criminal offenses committed within said territory east of said dividing line Af nyhfc hA oR county has Jurisdiction; and said Circuit Court shall empanel grand juries from and in said Enterprise division to inquire into and present all indictable offenses committed in said division. All civil and criminal processes issuing from the courts fin said Enterprise division shall be so designated. and shall be returnable into the courts respectively for said division. The County Court of Coffee county held in and for the Enterprise division shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all civil causes of which said court has juriedic- tion wherein the defendants reside in the district or territory east of said dividing line or the cause of action arose east of said dividing line; and of all actions of unlawful detainer and of forcible entry and unlawful detainer of which said court has Jurisdiction wherein the real estate involved lies east of said dividing line in said county, and of all criminal oftenses committed within said territory east of said dividing line of which said court has Jurisdiction; and shall have concurrent Jurisdiction with the County Court of Coffee county to be held at Elba fin actions of unlawful detainer and of forcible entry and unlawful detainer of which said court has Jurisdiction wherein the real estate involved lies partly east and partly west of said dividing line in said county.
 Sec {. That petit juries shall be drawn | and empanellcd for said circuit court and | said county court of Coffee county held | in and for said Enterprise division as l petit juries are drawn and empaneIled by l law in and for said courts. |
 Sec 5. That the Chancery Court of l Coffee county held in and for the Enter | prise division shall have exclusive jurIS- | diction of all causes of which chancery | courts have juridiction wherein the de- | fendant lives in the district or ter ritory east of said dividing line | is involved when such real estate 1t situ- l county.
 Sec. 6. That the Circuit Court and the | Chancery Court of Coffee county in real | actions and suits involving real estate, wherein a portion of the real estate in- volved Is situated partly east and partly | west of said dividing line In said county | shall respectively have concurrent juris- | diction in said Enterprise division and at | Elba.
 Sec. :. That all civil and criminal | causes pending in the Circuit Court and | in the County Court of Coffee county and | in the Chancery Court of said county, |