The Republican journal., 1919-04-10
CHAPTER 9.

An Act TO Establish Superior Court in
the County OF Eenobscot.
Sec. !. A superior court is here
BY established at. Bangor within and
for the county of Penobscot consist
mg OF one justice, who shall be an
lnhahltant of said county, of sobriety
shall be appointed, commissioned and
qualified according to the constitutions
Sec. 3. Said justice shall estab-
lish a seal for said court: and all writs
and processes issuing therefrom shall
be in the name OF the State of the
usual forms. bearing the teste Of said
justice. under the seal of said court,
and shall be signed by its clerk, and
may be made returnable in the su-
perior court of any other county in
which the action might be legally
brought; they shall be obeyed and
executed throughout the State.
Sec. 3. Within said county. said
superior court shall have exclusive
jurisdiction of civil appeals from
municipal and police. courts. and trial
justices. exclusive original jurisdiction
of actions of scire facias on judg-
mentS and recognizances not exceed
ing FIVE hundred dollars of bastaldy
law not exclusively cognizable by
municipal and police courts. and trial
justices. where the damages demanded
do not exceed five. hundred dollars, ex-
Cept complaints for fowage, real ac-
tions and actions of trespass quare
clausum: and concurrent original ju-
rs(liction Of actions of trespass Quare
rlaUsum. libels for divorce and pro-
ceedingS in haheaS corpus, and of all
other civil actions at law where Gne
da images exceed five hundred dollars.
except complaints for f1owage and real
actions
it is hereby expressly provided,
however. that all municipal courts
within said county OF Penobscot shall
have concurrent Jurisdiction with said
superior court. in all cases where said
mn nj q hprptnfnTn h.3d
concurrent jurisdiction with the Su
preme judicial court.
Sec: .. The original and appellate
jurisdiction in all criminal matters
now vested in, and exercised by the
supreme judicial court within and for
the county of PenobSCot, and all pow
ers incident thereto. shall be trans
ferred to and conferred upon the su-
perior court within and for said couu-
ty. which court shall exercise the
same in the same manner as hereto
fore, authoI1zed by law TO be eXer-
cised by the supreme judicial court in
Sec J. All indictments and inforna-
tious. actions Of scire facias, and all
preme judicial court for said county
shall be transferred to said superior
court, and shall he entered upon the
docket of the same at the September,
thereof, and shall have day therein:
and all warrants and recogniZances. ap-
pealS in criminal cases, and all Crimi-
nal processes whatever which but for
the passage of this act would be re-
turnable to. or which by law would be
entered in said supreme Judicial court
IN said county, on the first Tuesday of
September, nineteen hundred and nine
teen. shall be returnable to and entered
upon the docket of said superior court
on the first Tuesday of September,
nineteen hundred and nineteen, ana
shall have day therein: and all grand
Jurors. witnesses and others. in cr1mi-
nal matters. who would, hut for the
passage of this act, be held to appear
said county, on the first Tuesday of
September, nineteen hundred and nine,
teen, shall he held to appear at said
term of said superior court TO be held
Sec. 6. Said court shall be held
on the first Tuesday of the following
months: January, March, May, Sen
tember and Noyembsr caItI and me sbs sT14' hs
first Tuesdays of January, May, and
September. together with civil busl-
ness.
Traverse jurors shall be drawn and
returned to serve at the several terms
of said court except that IN tne olst St
creton of the justice or sag Wi, 3u bnsiness tes
may be held within calendar year
without traverse jury.
Sec 7. The first term Of said
superior court shall be held on the hrst
dred and nineteen, At any term OF Of
the supreme judicial court for sac sac
county of Penobscot, held after THIS
act shall take effect any action pena, tea
ing therein which would fall Wltnln the
exclusive jurisdiction of SAID superior
court as hereinbefore defined and es-
tablished, with all papers beiohginS
thereto and orders and DEGREES theIe-
on. may. on motion of either party. ie pc
Transferred from the docket of sald
supreme judicial court to the docket OF
said superior court. and entered,, tllen hen
and have day therein, as II II nau peei
originally commenced therein; pro,
vided, that the justice presiding IN
said supreme judicial court pelieved5 eve
that a speedier trial may thus be had;
And upon the taking effect of tins. acI
the jurisdiction of the supreme judicial
court for the trial of civil cases IN satu it,i
county shall be limited in cona LOT ai1
acts relating to courts and judicial
proceedings Shall be modified so far as As
TO give full effect to this act. ana o+snt an
with this act are hereby repeaied;
Sec 8. Actions may be mace re-
turnable at one of the next two terms
of said court begun and held aIter 'he
commencement thereof
Sec. 9. The justice of sad su-
perior court may be appointed. coni,
missioned and qualified at any UNI
after this act shall take effect; and hIs
annually. He shall be entitled to re-
ceiye the same from the treasury oa
the State in quarterly payments on the
first days of January. April July ana
October.
Soc IN The provisions of the re-
y;sed Statutes. chapter eighty-two;
sections eighty-eight to one hundred
ana five inclusive; applicable to o. ths T,,- so-
Reriand and Kennebec, are hereby made
Applicable ap @ W to said superior court for for
the county of Penobscot, except as Tue o.
same may be modified by the other bfo'
visions of this act.
Co ~ The Justice of said court
anoint q efeuographer to report