Year: 1875

Ansact providing the mode of hold


ing Courts Of Common Pleas and for
apportiOning the labor TO the Judges


thereof.


SECTION 1. Be e enacted 6y tic Gen
eTdk assembly Of the STATE of Ohio.


That the Courts Of Common Pleas in
this state, except as otherwise may


be provided BY law, on or before the
third Tuesday ia October in each year,
and at the time they determine the
times OF the commencement OF the
terms Of this District Court, and of
the several terms of the Court ofCom-


mon Pleas in their respective districts,
as is or may be provided by law, shall
also ascertain as nearly as may be,
the probable amount OF business in
each county OF their judicial districts
for the ensuing year, and shall appor-
ton the labor of holding said Courts
Of Common Pleas equally between
the judges, or majority of them, in
each Common Pleas District, at the
time of issuing their written order to
the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in each and every-county in
their said district, fixing the time of
the commencement of the terms of
said courts for the ensuing year, shall
specify in said order what terms or
parts of terms of said Courts of Com
mon Pleas shall be held by each judge
of said district IN accordance with the
appointment OF labor between said
Judges, as fOresaid aud that in arrang-
ing the division of labor by the jadg-
es, they shall, as far as necessary,
so arrange the same az to have courts
held by judges in counties i'm which
the Judge holding the ssme is not
resident; provided that not less than
two hundred aud forty days of open
session oftlIe Court Of Common Pleas
shall be held by each judge during the
year, unless all the business assigned
him be sooner disposed of, and also
designate one Oftheir number whose
duty il shall be to supervise tine exc
cHtion of the aforesaid order when 70
made by majority of the judges.
o SEC. =. Wbenithe judge as aforesaid
to supervise the execution or the said
order Of said judges shall receive sat
isfaetory Information that by reason
OF illness or other disability of any
judge of the Court of Common Pleas
who may have been resigned to hold
the term or any part thereof in any
county, is unable to perform such
duty, or when an unsusl amount of
business shall occur. in any county
over and above the business in other
counties of the district, which was
not taken irtO consideration I'm ap-
pOrtiOning the labor, the judge so as
signed tn such supervising duty shall
designate and assign any ju0ge or
judges of said district who may not he
for the time being engaged in hold
ing any court, to the discharge of the
duties of such illness or disability, or
to aid in trying and dispOsing OF sueli
unusual labor which was,nOt consid- |
cred in making said appointment,
so. far as may be; and thereupOn
such judge so designated, upon receiv-
ing notice thereof from the Judge so
assigned to such supervisory duty,
shall proceed to hold the courts, 10 the
holding of which he or they may
have been so assigned. 9aI .lrl


SEC. 3. To carry into effect, as fSr
as possible, the provisions OF this act,
for the year A. ID. 1875, the first meet
ing of the judges are provided for in
tho first section of this act, shall be
held on the last Monday in March
next, and thereafter as provided in
said first section. l1rIl Ell..t-
ioSEO. 4. This act shall be in force
from and after its passage. 30 it'r