The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-19
FRANK N. JULIAN, Secretary of State.
AN AC1,
(II. B. 964.

No 394) AN ACT. GIL B. 964
 To amend Sections and 15 of an Act
 entitled "an Act to establish the Lee
 County Court of Law and Equity pre-
 scribe it's jurisdiction and powers, It's
 rules of practice and procedure, pro-
 vide for the selection of it's officers pre-
 scribe their powers. duties. compensa-
 tion and terms of office, fix the time of holding said court, and provide for fees,
 commissions, fines, forfeiture and iuries
 in said court, provide for supplies for
 said court, and repeal conflicting laws"
 approved the 9th day of March. 1907.
 Section l. Be 1t enacted by the legis- lature of Alabama That Section of an Act entitled An Act to establish the Lee County Court of Law and Equity. prescribe it's jurisdiction and powers, it's rules of practice and procedure, provide for the selection of it's officers, prescribe their powers. duties, compensation and term of office. fix each time of holding said court and provide for fees commits sions, fines, forfeiture and juries in , said court. provide for supplies for said court, and repeal conflicting laws" be and the same Is hereby amended so that it shall read follows: Section 3. l That said court shall be held in the court house of Lee county; lnat the office of the judge of said court, the office of the clerk and register of said court and the office of the solicitor and all the records of said court shall be In the | courthouse of Lee county, in the city of | CaIJ lar terms in each year as follows: The first shall begin on the second Monday In January, and may continue until the third l Saturday In June and the second term l shall begin on the fourth Monday in July and may continue until the second Saturday in December of each year. Pro | vided, That the first term Of court to be held under this Act shall begin on the fourth Monday in July, 1907. The court | may during the regular terms thereof | take such temporary recesses as shall. by the judge of said court. be deemed prop CT and expedient. The judge of said court is hereby authorized and empowered from | time to time, and in his discretion, by orders entered on the minutes of the court, to fix the time and manner of holding sessions of said court: to desig- nate a week or weeks for the settling of pleadlngs In civil cases at law. a separate week or weeks for trial of equity cases. separate week or weeks for the trial of civil cases at law, in which a trial by jury has been waived week or weeks for the trial of civil cases at law. in which trial by jury has been de- manded. a separate week or weeks for the the trial of criminal quasi criminal cases; and to prescribe the particular weeks of the term for which petit juries shall be summoned.
 Sec. 2 Be it further enacteu That Sec ton 15. of said Act be amended so as to read as follows: Section 15, That ex- cept as otherwise herein provided the se- lection. drawing summoning and empan- cling both regular and special juries grand and petit in said court shall be in all respects the same as by law required in the circuit court of Lee county, and the practice of said Lee county court of 1 law and equity shall be the same in this respect as in the circuit courts of i the state. Provided. That the list of ju- TOTS selected by the jury commissioners of Lee county for the circuit court shall constitute the list of jurors for the | Lee County Court of Law and | Equity; and provided further, that the grand and petit juries drawn from said | list for the fall term, 1907, for the circuit court of Lee county, shall constitute tho venire of grand and petit iures for the | first term of the Lee County Court Of l Law and Equity.
 Approved July 24. 1907.
 Official:
 | FRANK N. JULIAN,
 Secretary of State