4712 ARTICLE 22.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 58. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 52.

95. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding section shall
be liable to presentment and indictment in the circuit court for said

county, and upon conviction shall be fined, in the discretion of the court,
a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.

CIRCUIT COURT.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 59. 1874, ch. 83. 1884, ch. 103. 1894, ch. 124.

1898, ch. 186.

96. The regular law term of the Circuit Court for Washington County
shall commence on the "second Monday of February," the "second Mon-
day of May" and the "second Monday in November" in each and every
year; and to each of said terms "juries" shall be summoned and returned
in the mode and manner prescribed by law. There shall also be a term of
said court beginning on the "first Monday of August" of each year, to
which no jurors shall be summoned, but to which process shall be return-
able for the entering of judgments in uncontested cases, the transaction
of any business not requiring the presence of a jury, and in the trial of
any case in said court, or either the law or equity side thereof, the judges
or judge presiding shall have the power and authority to employ a ste-
nographer or short hand reporter to take down the proceedings, including
the testimony and opinion of the court, and the County Commissioners
shall levy such compensation for the services of such stenographer or short
hand reporter as the judge thereof shall approve of.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 60. 1886, ch. 264.

97. In addition to the first day of each term of the circuit court for
said county, the first Monday of January, April, July and October, in each
year, shall be return days for the return of process in civil cases.

SPEEDY JUDGMENT ACT.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 61. 1886, ch. 264.

98. All original writs, writs of execution, attachment, replevin, eject-
ment, scire facias and habere facias, as well as all other writs and process
issued from or returnable to said court in civil cases, shall be made return-

able to the first return day, or to the first day of the term, whichever shall
first occur after the issue of the same, unless otherwise ordered in writing
by the party directing the same, or his attorney; and on the return of an
original writ, not executed, the same may be renewed, returnable to the
next return day, or to the first day of the succeeding term, whichever shall
first occur.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 62. 1886, ch. 264.

99. If a defendant be returned summoned and shall fail to appear, the
clerk of the court, on the day following the return day to which the writ or
process served on him is returnable, shall enter the appearance of any