The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-14

". feJ IAN ACT H. G2 fo establish an additional Circuit Court m s,,.u ne County of Biount. as Blounts- Section l.. Be 1t enacted by the Ieeis- n.ure of Alabama, That the County of 5iounfsis hereby divided as follows: Be-
 snnins sg,s at the point on the east line of Dount county in the State of Alabama, three or four miles northwest of the town or walnut Grove. Etowah County, Ala
 pama. where the main or Locust Fork of warrior River enters Blount County.
 .nence down this main or Locust Fork
 ol warrior River with its meanderings to
 and Jefferson. thence westwardly with tnfs county line to the southeast corner
 oI walker County, thence north with the me between the counties of Blount and Waiker 10 the southern line of Cullman
 County in Mulberry Fork of Warrior River; thence east and northeast with the me between the counties of BIount and Cuiiman to the line of Marshall County. thence southeast and south with the line between the counties of Blount and Mar l snail and on east line of Blount County to the point of beginning. and that the jurisdiction of said Court shall embrace all that part of Blount County within the
 lines described. being also described as all that part of Blount County lying north vest Of said main or Locust Fork of War rior River and shall be known as Western Division of Blount County. Alabama, the remainder of said county to be known l and called the Eastern Division of Blount County. @
 Sec. ?. That all causes of action, both civii and criminal, within the jurisdiction or a Circuit Court. and arising within said county, west of said Locust Fork of Warrior River, shall be cognizable, heard and determined at the said court at Blountsville.
 Sec. 3. That all processes shall be is- sued by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said Blount County and executed as now provided for by law in said county, and that the process issued in all suits or proceedings of every kind and nature arising within the territory west of said line shall be returnable at the Court House at Blountsville.
 Sec. 4. That the grand and petit juries for the court hereby established shall be drawn from those qualified to serve with in the territory described and embraced by this act and they shall be exempt from jury service in any court outside the ter ritory herein described.
 Sec. 5. That all sales of lands lying west of the said dividing line made under legal process shall be made in front of the Court House at Blountsville.
 Sec. 6. That there shall be held two terms of the Circuit Court In each year, in the Western Division of Blount County. at the Court House at Blountsville. That the first term in each year shall com- mence on the second Monday in June and may continue two weeks, and the second term shall commence on the second Mon- day in December, in each year and may continue two weeks. That the civil bus mess in such court shall be taken up
 A A..- Al. a~rk IT, 70 each term of said court, and the crim- final business shall be disposed of during the second week of said court. Provided, That In the opinion of the Judge at any term of the court the business, both civil and criminal. can be tried and disposed of in one week at the next term of the court. then 1t shall be his duty to make an order on the minutes of the court fix ing a day during the first week of the term of the court in which the civil bus iness and the criminal business shall be taken up and disposed of and the Judge in and by said order shall direct that q petit jury shall be drawn and summoned for such first week only of said court.
 Sec. -. That the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Blount County shall keep his office as now provided by law, at One onta. in said county. and that he shall also keep separate dockets and records
 
 causes pending for trial in the Western Divison at Blountsville and he shall at- tend the sitting of said court at Oneonta and Blountsville.
 Sec. S. That the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county of Blount shall ap- point deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court, who shall keep his office in said town of Blountsville and in the manner as is now required of clerks of said Circuit Courts in this State. That 1t shall be the duty of said deputy in the name of the clerk to sign and issue all processes in causes arising in the Western Division of Blount County, and in said court of every na- ture and kind. in the same manner as the principal or Clerk of said Circuit Court could do himself. That 1t shall be the duty of said deputy clerk to take charge and keep all papers, books and records belonging to said Circuit Court, in said Western Division, which shall be open and subject to inspection, as is now provided for by law, in cases of papers and re- cords of the Circuit Court of this State. That such deputy shall in the name of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Blount County have. perform and execute all the powers for said Western Division, and in the name of the clerk which the clerk could do if present.
 Sec. g. That the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Blcunt County shall be liable on his official bond for all the wrongful or illegal acts and doings of such deputy clerk, while in the discharge of such du- ties That before entering on the duties of his office such deputy shal be re- quired to take an oath and file the same in the office of the Probate Judge of BIount County, as required of oflcers in this State; and the clerk of the court aforesaid shall re- quire such deputy. before entering on the duties of such office, to enter into bond payable to such clerk, in sum not exceeding 5000 with conditions faithfully to discharge the duties of such deputy ac- corfiing to law, so long as he performs any of the duties thereof, and to pay to his principal all such damages as prin cipal may sustain by his wrongful or ille- gal acts. or on account of a failure to discharge such duties or any one. thereof
 Sec 10. That the Commissioners Court of said County of Blount are authorized and empowered to cause to be erected court house and jail to cost not less than $12, ,0O0 on the lands of Blount County in the said town of Blountsville. Ala.
 Sec. Il. That this act shall take effect subject to the following provisions: That che same shall be submitted to an election of the qualified voters within the terri tory hereinbefore described, said election to be held at the various precincts there in on the Tuesday after the second Mon day in December. 1908. under the same as general elections through out the State are held.
 Sec 12 That 1t is the duty of the Coun- ty officials of Blount County. whose duty 1t is to order and prepare for regular elections, to so order and prepare said