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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every justice appointed
and commissioned
in virtue of this act, shall, before he acts as such, take
the oaths of fidelity and support to this state, as required by the
constitution and laws thereof, provided he hath not before taken
the same, and also the oath of justice as required by the act of February
session, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, chapter five.
15, 16. See note to sections 1, &c. |
1801.
CHAP. 74.
Justices to take
certain oaths. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said chief
justice, or either
of the associate justices, may, out of court, direct the clerk to enter
judgments by confession, or non sum informatus, and such judgment
shall be as legal and valid as if entered in court during its
sitting.
18. See note to sections 1, &c.
19, 20, 21. These sections are
excepted from the general continuing act of
1804, ch. 25, and have therefore expired.
22. This section repealed by 1806, ch. 97, s.
6. |
Justices may direct
clerk to enter
judgments by confession. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act * to regulate
elections as authorise the several county courts to appoint judges of
elections, be and the same is hereby repealed.
24, 25, 26. See note to
sections 19, &c. |
Part of an act repealed.
* 1799, ch. 50. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of
the respective county
courts shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every omission
or neglect, in the month of November yearly, during the continuance
of this act, make out and transcribe two fair copies of the levy
list allowed by the justices of the respective levy courts against the
said counties, containing the several charges and sums levied and
assessed on their respective counties, one copy whereof shall be
transmitted to the clerk of the senate, and the other copy thereof to
the clerk of the house of delegates, for the information of the general
assembly.
28. See note to sections 1, &c. |
Clerks to make
two copies of levy
list allowed
against counties. |
29. AND, whereas by divers acts of assembly
the justices of the
county courts are authorised and enjoined to do sundry matters and
things at the county courts to be held in certain months in the said
acts mentioned, and in many instances there is an alteration of the
time of holding the said county courts by this act, BE IT ENACTED,
That in all cases where the courts are by this act directed to be held
in different months from those mentioned in the said acts of assembly,
or any of them, it shall be lawful for the justices of the county
courts, to be commissioned in virtue of this act, to do and perform
all such matters and things at such time in each year as they shall
think convenient, either at their court in course, or at an adjourned
court. |
In certain cases
justices to perform
matters and things
at such time as
they shall think
convenient. |
30. AND, whereas the office and duties of
justices of the peace are
considerably increased in the several counties of this state, and it
is reasonable that every person who dedicates his time or labour to
the public should receive a reasonable and adequate compensation
for his services, BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful
for the several justices of the peace, and associate justices, in
the
several counties of this state, to ask and receive the fees allowed
and limited by this act for services expressed in the following table,
and such fees shall be taxed and paid by the party against whom
judgment shall be rendered, to wit: For issuing a warrant for debt,
twelve and an half cents; for each summons, including all the witnesses |
Justices fees. |
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