Acts. 229

County Court for the said County and shall have full Power and
Authority to hear and determine all Disputes between Masters and
Servants or Apprentices and they are hereby invested fully and amply
with all the Authority Power and Jurisdiction of any County Court of
this Province for the Purposes aforesaid and may adjourn the said
Court and all Process and Proceedings therein depending from Day to
Day or in such other Manner as they in their Discretion shall think
convenient and the Sheriff of the said County for the Time being his
Bailiffs and Deputies and all Constables and other Officers and all
other Persons whatsoever shall yield due Obedience to all Process
Precepts and Warrants that shall be issued by or returnable before
the said Justices

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted That all Causes pleas Process and Proceedings
relative to the Trial of all Felonies and other Crimes Offences and
Misdemeanors whatsoever that shall be depending in the said
County Court after the Adjournment of the next November County
Court for the said County shall be and are by Virtue of this Act
directed to be heard tried and determined before the Justices afore-
said any Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary Notwithstanding

[Causes,
&c. depend-
ing in the
County
Court to be
tried before
the said
Justices.]

And be it enacted That the County Clerk of the said County for
the Time being shall be the Clerk of the said Court and shall make
all Entries and transact all the other Business of the said Court in
the same manner as he is now by Law obliged to transact the Busi-
ness of the County Court of the said County

[County
Clerk to be
Clerk of said
Court.]

And be it enacted That the Sheriff of the said County for the Time
being shall summon forty eight good and Lawful Men of his Baili-
wick six Days before the Days appointed by this Act for the holding
of the said Court as Grand and Petit Jurors and shall return a Pannel
of them accordingly and if the said Sheriff shall neglect to summon

[Sheriff to
summon
Grand and
Petit Jurors,
&c.]
p. 272

and return the best and most capable Men in his Bailiwick for Grand
and Petit Jury men he shall for every such Neglect be fined by the
said Justices a Sum not exceeding three thousand Pounds of Tobacco
rating Tobacco at ten Shillings per hundred to be applied towards
defraying the Charge of the said County and every Person who shall
be so summoned and shall neglect or refuse to appear at the Day but
make Default shall be fined by the said Justices five hundred Pounds
of Tobacco to be rated and applied as aforesaid and every Grand
and Petit Juror shall have an Allowance of twenty four Pounds of

[Penalty on
Neglect.]
[Penalty on
Persons
summoned
neglecting to
appear.]
[Allowance
to Jurors
and Justices
for their
Attendance.]

Tobacco for every Days Attendance to be assessed in the County
Levy and each of the said Justices shall be allowed sixty four pounds
of Tobacco for every Days Attendance to be assessed in the County
Levy

And be it enacted that all Commitments and Recognizances for
all Felonies and other Crimes Offences and Misdemeanors committed
in the said County and triable by Law in the County Court of the

[Commit-
ments and
Recogni-
zances to be
returned the
Day before
the Day ap-
pointed for
holding
Courts, &c.]