The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-23
GENERAL LAWS
No. 565) AN ACT eH i6S To amend Sections 5s7, S9s. sO6. sos, sll,
 sl2, 913, 9l4, 9l5, 916, a17, of Article l.
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lature of Alabama that SeeuOnS sJt' oso, s06 9OS 91l 9l2 9lS 9l4, s15, 9l6 and VT of Article ], Chapter l9, of the code or Alabama, be and they are hereby amend ed so as to read as follows S97 G4S) State divided into seventeen judicial circuits. The State is divided into seventeen judi cial circuits to be numbered and compos- ed of counties as follows: First circuit Choctaw, Clarke Marengo and Monroe. Second circuit. Butler. Conecuh, Cren- shaw. Eseambia and Lowndes. Third cir cult. Barbour. Bullock, Dale, Lee and Russell. Fourth circuit: Bibb, Dallas, Hale Perry and Wilcox. Fifth circuit: Chambers, Coosa, Macon. Randolph and Tallapoosa. Sixth circuit; Fayette, 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. Eleventh
 circuit: Colbert Franklin, Lauderdale ana
 Marion Twelfth circuit: Coffee, Coving-
 ton. Geneva Henry. Houston and 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 Dekalb'
 Cherokee, Jackson and Marshall S9S 'o'-1'
 (749l circuit court to be held In eaeh
 county at the court house, etc, except
 when otherwise provided by law. the cir
 cult courts of the several counties shall
 he held in the court house thereof, four
 times in each year. At the first and thlrd
 terms grand and petit juries shall De
 drawn summoned and impaneled as now
 provided by law, except when otheI"ise
 ordered by the judge in term time or va
 cation. At the second and fourth terms
 unless otherwise ordered by the court, Tn
 the manner provided by law, no grand
 or petit jury shall be drawn, summoned or organized and cases triable without
 jury shall be set for trial. Where three terms jures shall be drawn and sum moned for the first and third terms un- less otherwise ordered. Where two terms only iuries shall be drawn and summon ed for each of said terms. 300. Second circuit: times and places of holdlhg courts. Regular terms of the circuit court in the Second judicial circuit shall De 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. g. 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. 5. In the County of Butler. on the fifth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September and may continue three weeks 906. Eighth Circuit; times and places of holding courts. The Circuit Court in the Eighth Judicial Circuit shall be held in each year as follows: ]. 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. g. 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. sos. 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 he 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 Decen,5e7i- ana 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
 ad by the qualified electors of said circuit 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 the 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 nrovided 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 1effarson County shall apply to said court as constituted by the act where not herewith. Bills of exception shall be signed by the judge before whom the case was tried. 9l1. Thirteenth Cir cuit. times and places of holding courts. The circuit courts in the thirteenth judi
 cial circuit, shall be held in each year as follows: l. In the County of Baldwin, on the fourth Monday in March and october, and may continue three weeks. ?. In the County of Washington. on the first Monday after the second Monday In March and October. and may continue T,, ha " nf bile on the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and October, and may continue ten weeks. 9lla. 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 in March and September, and may continue two weeks at each term 9 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 30th 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. 9ll b. Elf teenth Circuit.-Times and places of hold ing courts: The Circuit Courts in the f1f- teenth Judicial Circuit, shall be held In each year, as follows In the County of Elmore 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 one week. On the third Monday after the third Mon day in September and may continue two weeks. In the County of Autauga on the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday