COUNTY COURTS
 

    Provision made where matters were enjoined to be
done in months different from those which the courts
might be held,
    All causes, &c. depending in the county courts directed
to be returned to the county courts then established;
directions for testing writs, &c.
—Commitments for crimes directed to be returned,
and sheriffs, &c. to execute their duties, as in the former
courts,
    The 2d section of the act of 1785, ch. 87, concerning
jurisdiction, repealed,
    No action of ejectment, waste, partition, dower, trespass
quare clausum fregit, trover or replevin, to abate
by the death of either party,
—Directions for continuance, and the appearance
and prosecution of such action, by the heir, executor,
&c.
    The act of 1796, ch. 43 and the 4th section of the
act of 1790, ch. 33, for the better administration of justice,
repealed,
    The acts of 1797, ch. 110, and 1803, ch. 75, directed
to be given in charge to the grand jury,
    The state divided into six judicial districts; the
districts numbered, and the counties comprised in
each district named,
—There shall be appointed for each district, three
persons of integrity and sound legal knowledge, residents
of the state, one as chief judge and the other
two as associate judges,
—They shall, previous to, and during their acting
as judges, reside in their respective districts,
—The chief judge, together with the associate judges,
shall compose the county courts,
—To hold their commissions during good behaviour,
removable for misbehaviour, on conviction in a court
of law, or by the governor upon the address of the
general assembly, provided that two thirds of all the
members of each house concur in such address,
—The county courts so established, to have all the
powers, &c. which the county courts then had, and
which should be prescribed by law,
—To hold their sessions respectively at such times
and places as the legislature should direct and appoint,
—The salaries of the judges not to be diminished
during the period of their continuance in office,
    The judges, on suggestion in writing by either party,
supported by affidavit, or other evidence, that a fair
trial cannot be had in the county, shall direct the record
of their proceedings to be transmitted to any
county court within the district, to be tried by such
court,
—Such suggestion to be filed before or during the
term in which the issue may be joined,
—Proviso for further remedy by law,
—On such suggestion by a party presented or
indicted, supported by affidavit, the record to be removed
to any adjoining county court for trial; proviso
for further remedy by law,
—The record to be removed in like manner to the
court having criminal jurisdiction in any adjoining
county,
—The record to be removed to any adjoining
county for trial, on such suggestion in writing by
the attorney general, or prosecutor for the state,
    Parts of the constitution repugnant, annulled, but
not to authorise the removal of the county clerks,

 1801        74   29
 

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  1803        75    4
  1804        55    1
Confirmed by
  1805        16
 

  1804        55    1

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  1805        65  49
 

  1809      138  20
  1804        55    4
Confirmed by
  1805        16

  1804        55    6