The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-23
GENERAL LAWS
No. t6O AN ACT (H. 76S 10 amend Sections S97. S9S, 9p6 9OS, 9ll.
 eIz szs, 91s, sl5, s16, sl7. of Article l.


 S0s, eos. el1, 912. 91s. 914, 9l5, 91G and 9lI of Article l. Chapter 1S. of the Code of Alabama. be and they are hereby amend Cd 70 as to read as follows: S91 Q4S) state divided into seventeen judicial circuits. The State is divided into seventeen Juui- ciaf circuits 10 be numbered and compos- cd Of counties as follows: First circuit: Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo and Monroe. Second circuit: Butler. Conecuh. Cren- shaw, Escambia and 14owndes. Third cir cult; Barbour, Bullock, Dale. Lee and Ruesel1. Fourth circuit: Bibb, DaiIas' Hale. Perry and Wilcox. Fifth circuit: Chambers, Coosa, Macon, Randolph ano Tallapoosa. Sixth circuit; tayetts' Greene, Lamar. Pickens, Sumter. Tusca- loosa. Seventh circuit: Calhoun, Clay' Cleburne. Shelby and Talladega. Eighth circuit: Cullman, Lawrence and Morgan Ninth circuit: Blount, St. Clair and Eto- wah. Tenth circuit: Jefferson. E!erehtn circuit: Colbert. Franklin. Laudercale anu Marion. Twelfth circuit: Coffee. Coxlis- ton. Geneva. Henry, Houston ana Pike: Thirteenth circuit: Baldwin, Mobile and
 Washington. Fourteenth circuit: Walker and Winston Fifteenth circuit: Mont gomery Autauga, Chiffon and Fillmore. Sixteenth circuit: Madison and Lime stone. Seventeenth circuit: Dehalp, Cherokee, Jackson and Marshall. SS (s92l, (74g1 circuit court to be held In each county at the court house, etc, except when otherwise provided by law. the cir cuif courts of the several counties shall be held in the court house thereof, four times in each year. At the first and third terms grand and petit juries shall be drawn summoned and impaneled as now provided by law, except when otherWlse ordered by the judge in term time or va cation. At the second and fourth terms, unless otherwise ordered by the court. in A~ or petit jury shall be drawn, summoned or organized and cases triable without a fury shall be set for trial. Where three terms jurfes shall be drawn and sum- moned for the first and third terms un- less otherwise ordered Where two terms only juries shall be drawn and summon ed for each of said terms. 900. Second circuit: times and places of holding courts. Regular terms of the circuit court fin the Second judicial circuit shall be held twice in each year as follows: l. In the county of Lowndes. on the third Mon day in February and August and may continue three weeks 2. In the county of Escambia, on the second Monday in March and September, and may continue two weeks. B. In the county of Cren- shaw on the fourth Monday in March and September, and may continue two weeks. 4. In the county of Conecuh on the second Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September, and may continue three weeks. g. In the County of Butler, on the fifth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September and may continue three weeks. 9o6. Eighth Circuit; times and places of holding courts. The Circuit Court in the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be held in each year as follows: I. In the County of Lawrence on the first Mon day in January. April, July and October and may continue two weeks. .. In the County of Cullman. on the first Monday in February, May. August and November and may continue two weeks. 3. In the County of Morgan, on the second Monday after the first Monday in February, May. August and November and may continue until Saturday before the first Monday in January, April, July and October, in each year. 90s. Tenth Circuit; times and places of holding courts. The Circuit Courts in the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall be held in each year as follows: There shall be two terms of the Circuit Court, in said Tenth Circuit. the first of said terms shall begin on the first Monday in October and end on the last Saturday in December; and the second of which shall begin on the first Monday in January and end on the last Saturday in June In the Tenth Judicial Circuit there shall be elect 
 two judges of the Circuit Court at the times and in the manner provided by law for the election of one circuit judge in other circuits Each of said judges shall have all the powers. authority and shall perform the same duties conferred on. and required of circuit judges by law. Said judges shall receive the salary now provided by law, and in addition there shall be paid to each of said judges out of tie County treasury of Jefferson Coun- ty. the sum of five hundred dollars per annum payable in monthly installments as additional compensation. The circuit court of said circuit shall consist of two divisions, one of said judges sitting in each of said divisions. and in each of said divisions there shall be tried such cases as the clerk of said court shall set to be tried therein. Juries may be sum moned for each of said divisions as now provided by law for the summoning of Iuries in the circuit court of Jefferson county, and in all respects all laws now In force relating to the circuit court of Jefferson County, shall apply to said court as constituted by the act where not Inconsistent herewith. Bills of exception shall be signed by the judge before whom The case was tried 9l1. Thirteenth Cir
 euit; times and places of holding courts. The circuit courts in the thirteenth judi cial circuit shall be held in each year as follows: 1. In the County of Baldwin, on The fourth Monday in March and October, and may continue three weeks. 2. In the County of Washington. on the first Monday after the second Monday in March and October. and may continue three weeks. :. In the County of Mo bile on the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and October
 and may continue ten weeks. 9lia. Four
 teenth Circuit; times and places of hold ing courts.-The circuit courts in the fourteenth judicial circuit shall be held In each year as follows: 1. In the county of Winston, the third Monday tn March and September, and may continue two weeks at each term. 2. In the County of Walker the court shall be held as follows: The first term shall begin the first Monday in January. and may continue until the 3Oth day of June, except the two weeks beginning the third Monday in March. The second term shall begin the first Mon day in March, and may continue until the end of the week which begins with the second Monday in December. 9l1 b. Eff teenth Circuit-Times. and places of hold ing courts: The Circuit Courts in the Eff teenth Judicial Circuit shall be held in each year, as follows: In the County of Fillmore on the second Monday after the fourth Monday in February and may continue two weeks and on the first Mon day in July and may continue C1e week
 On the third Monday after the third Mou- day in September and may contiNuc two weeks In the County of AutadS} on the Fo,,rth Monday after the fourth Monday