The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-25

the cause as if the bill had been signed by the judge, but application must be
 filed in the Supreme Court to establish such bill of exception within thirty
 days from the refusal or failure of such judge to sign said bill. If the judge dies, resigns, or Is impeached. or his term of office expires, or if from other
 good cause he does not sign bill of exceptions duly presented to him with
 in the proper time, the bill of excep- tion may be established in the supreme Court as provided herein. but the ap- plication to the Supreme Court to es- tablish the same must be filed in the Supreme Court in or before the next
 call of the division of said court of the causes of the county in which the case
 was tried, after the death, resignation,
 impeachment or the expiration of the
 term of office of such judge, and in no
 case can such application be filed after one year from the rendition of the judgment or decree.
 Sec. 26. That the deputy solicitor for
 Morgan county shall be solicitor of said Morgan county law and equity court
 until the general election In the year 1908, and his successor Is elected and
 qualified. At the said general election in the year 1908, and every four years thereafter, a solicitor for said court shall be elected by the qualified eiec-
 tors of said county. whose term of of | lice shall be four years from the date | of his election. and until his successor Is
 elected and qualified. The solicitor for 1 said court so elected as herein provid- 1 ed, shall, before entering upon the du- ties of his office, take the oath of of-
 flee required by law to be taken by the solicitor of the circuit courts of l Alabama. The solicitor for said court, at the time of his election, shall have l been citizen of Morgan county, Ala
 bama. for period of one year next
 preceding his election, and shall be not | less than twenty-one years of age, and shall be learned in the law.
 Sec. 27. The solicitor for said court shall receive as compensation for his services the same fees as are taxable l by law for solicitors in criminal cases in the circuit courts of this State to
 an amount not exceeding fifteen hun dred dollars to be taxed and collected | in said court in the same manner as 1 such fees are taxed and collected in said circuit courts, and said fees shall be paid to him instead of the State, l and the said solicitor of the said court
 shall have & claim against the fine and | forfeiture fund for his fees in cash I when convictions are secured and the | fees cannot be collected.
 Sec. 2s. The said Morgan county law and equity court hereby created shall
 have Jurisdiction of all causes now | triable by the county court of Morgan l county, and all causes now pending in the county court Of Morgan county shall be, by the clerk of the circuit | court. who is ex-oficio clerk of said | county court, immediately transferred | to the Morgan county law and equity | court, and such causes shall stand for | trial in said court. That prosecution of all misdemeanors may be instituted | in the Morgan county law and equity
 court, as Is now provided by law for
 instituting such proceedings in the county court of Morgan county, Ala bama, and that affidavits and warrants issued by the justices of the peaces. | and notaries public with powers of l justices of the peace, or other officers authorized to issue such process, may be made returnable to the said Nor gan county law and equity courts and
 when so returned shall stand for trial in said court.
 Sec. 29. That whenever, for any
 cause, a jury. grand or petit. shall be quashed by the court, or shall fail to
 have been drawn or summoned, or If drawn and summoned, shall fall to at- tend, the court may forthwith order the sheriff to summon from the quail
 fled citizens of Morgan county a jury
 or juries to serve for any time speci-
 fled or ordered by the court; and such jury so summoned shall be competent
 and valid to try all causes pending in 1 said court and perform all other du- | ties as if such jury were regularly
 drawn and summoned for said court. Sec. 30. That all indictments found by the grand jury of the circuit court
 of Morgan county, charging the com mission of a misdemeanor shall be made returnable to the said Morgan
 county law and equity court; that all
 civil causes now pending in the cir cult court must. in demand of either
 party to said cause, or their attorney in writing made within thirty days af-
 ter the approval of this act, and filed
 with the clerk of the circuit court, be transferred forthwith for trial to this court hereby established, and the clerk of the said circuit court Shall transfer
 and file in the court herein established
 all the original papers in such causes, together with certified copies of all
 dockets and minute entries in said cause. thereupon this court herein es-
 tabliRhed shall have exclusive Jurisdio- ton of said cause; said causes so trans ferred shall be placed in the trial
 docket of this court tn the numerical order in which they occupied in the
 trial docket of the circuit court, and
 have the same right of precedence and
 priority they had in the circuit court. Sec. 31. That the solicitor for said
 court may be impeached or removed from office for the same causes, and in the same manner, as Is required by
 law for the impeachment or removal
 from ofice of solicitors of the circuit
 courts of the State.
 Sec. 32. That there may be a grand jury for said court; that the judge of
 said court be. and is hereby author ized and empowered to order that a grand jury be summoned, and to or
 ganize and empanel the same, at any
 time that he may deem proper and ad- missible; that such order for the sum
 moning and empan elling of said grand jury shall be entered upon the min
 utes of said court; that such grand jury shall have power and authority, and 1t shall be It's duty to investi- gate all matters and make all recom-
 mendations which the grand jury of the circuit court of Morgan county has
 authority to do or make.
 Sec. B. Whenever any trial Is com
 menced before jury, and cannot be
 completed during the week in which
 the same began. then such trial shall continue into the next week, and until it shall be completed, and such jury
 shall continue to serve until such cause
 is ended. Provided, that juries for the | trial of capital cases shall be drawn,
 summoned and empanelled, as is now,
 or may hereafter be, provided by law for drawing. summoning and empan-
 cling juries for the trial of capital
 cases in the circuit courts of the State. l The challenges of Juries shall be the
 same as is now, or may hereafter be,