The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-16

ty at Enterprise, Alabama; and to
 prescribe the jurisdiction thereon anu
 regulate the proceedings thereln'
 Section l. Be it enacted by the Lee islature of Alabama, That the Circuit court of Coffee county may be held in the town of Enterprise in said county on lhe fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in January and July. and may continue one week; and that the chaneery court or Coffee county may be held In the own of Enterprise in said county on the sec ond Monday in February and August and may continue two days; and che 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 or eaeh wear. which terms shall continue uhtii 5 the causes therein are disposed or ITO Vided, that the February term ana 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 fudge thereof any secular day or the week for the trial of criminal causes coming within its jurisdiction; ana Fro vided that the Enterprise diVlsloh ol said court shall have all the powers anu Jurisdiction belonging to said court. ana shall be governed and regulated py the same rules of procedure as obtain and govern in said court when held at Eloa' and provided that before said courts shall be held in Enterprise the citizens or Coffee county residing east of the toiloW- ing line through said county; beginning midway between the northeast and the northwest corners of the north ooui, dary line of township l, range 2l Tn salu county, and running directly south d. viding township and township 5 in range N into halves, to the dividing line between, township and township in said range 21; thence west along said dividing line between sad Townships and to the southwest cor her to said township g. thence south along the dividing line between town ships and in said range 21 and town ships and in range 20 to the northeast corner of township 3, range ~ 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 S. range 20 dividing said town -ship in halves to the east and west or said line which said line shall be known as the dividing line between the Eiba 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 cleIk k 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 a member of the Board of Coun- tv Commissioners of said county to cer- 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 suita bleness ot 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 ss 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 office in Enterprise wherein shall be kept all the minutes, records. books and papers of the Enterprise di- vision of said courts.
 Sec. B. That the Circuit Court of Coffee county held in and for the Enterprise di- vision shall have exclusive Jurisdiction of all civil causes of which the Circuit Court of Coffee county has jurisdiction wherein the defendants reside in the dis trict 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 of which the Circuit Court of Coffee 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 in 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 jurisdic- 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 Tn said county and of all criminal offenses committed within said territory east of said dividing line of which said court has Jurisdictions; and shall have concurrent Jurisdiction with the County
 
 In actions of unlawful detainer and of foreible 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. 4 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 fpetit juries are drawn and empanelled by law in and for said courts
 Sec B. That the Chancery Court of Coffee county held In and for the Enter prise division shall have exclusive iuris- fdiction of all causes of wnich chancery courts have juridiction wherein the de- fendant lives in the district or ter ritory east of said dividing line, and of all causes wherein real estate Is involved when such real estate it sitG- ated east of said dividing line in said county
 Sec 6. That the Circuit Court and the rhancery 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, which by the provisions of this act be-