cision, such court shall duly carry into execution and effect; or the said Supreme court may, if they see cause, order execution thereof to be done by process, issued out of the same, and thereupon, order the record to be remitted, as aforesaid.

"Section 12. The courts of Common Pleas shall have jurisdiction and power within their respective counties, to hear and determine all pleas, actions, and suits, and causes, civil, personal, real and mixed, according to the constitution and laws of this commonwealth; and the said court shall have power to grant, under their judicial seals, all lawful writs and process necessary for the exercise of such jurisdiction: Provided, That the court of Common Pleas for the city and county of Philadelphia, shall not have jurisdiction in any civil plea or action, when the sum or value in controversy, shall exceed one hundred dollars, as heretofore: that the board of commissioners of the incorporated district of the Northern Liberties, in the county of Philadelphia, shall and may annually, or whenever a vacancy shall occur, elect one of the aldermen or justices of the peace of the said district, or any citizen of the district, qualified to be a commissioner thereof, to be mayor of the said district, who shall possess and enjoy, during his continuance in office, all the rights, power, authority and jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and the said board of commissioners are hereby authorized to make all such police regulations, and prescribe such duties, rules and regulations for the mayor of the said district, as they may from time to time, by ordinance declare: Provided, Such ordinances are not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this commonwealth That the Governor shall appoint a recorder, of legal learning and ability, for the district of the Northern Liberties, Spring Garden and Kensington, of the county of Philadelphia, who shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars, as a full compensation for his services, which said recorder, together with the mayor of the Northern Liberties, and the aldermen of the Northern Liberties, Spring Garden and Kensington, (the said aldermen being paid in the same manner as the aldermen of the city of Philadelphia are now paid,) or any four of them, (whereof the mayor or recorder for the time being, shall be one,) shall have full power and authority to hold and keep a court of record within the said district, four times in each year, by the name, style and title of the Recorder's court for the incorporated

district of the Northern Liberties, and the district of Spring Garden and Kensington; and the said court shall be, and hereby is vested with all the power and authority, within the said district, which the mayor's court for the city of Philadelphia has within the said city, and shall be organized in like manner, and shall have authority to try and determine all offences which have been committed, or shall be committed within the said districts, which would be cognizable in any county court of Quarter Sessions of the peace of this commonwealth, and also to hear, try and determine all offences, which shall be committed within the said districts, against any of the laws, ordinances, regulations, or constitutions that are, or shall be, legally made, in pursuance of authority granted to said districts, and generally, to do all such matters and things within the said districts, as any court of general Quarter Sessions of the peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery, of and for any county within this commonwealth, may or can do, within any such county; and the justices of the court of general Quarter Sessions of the peace, of and for the county of Philadelphia, or any of them, or either of them, shall not in any matter or thing, have any further or other powers or jurisdictions within the said districts, than the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, may or can have in the said county of Philadelphia, and without the limits of the said districts.

"Section 13. The Supreme court, and the several courts of Common Pleas, shall have the jurisdiction and powers of a court of Chancery, so far as relates to

"I. The perpetuation of testimony:

"II. The obtaining of evidence from places not within the

state:

"III. The care of the persons and estates of those who are non compos mentis:

"IV. The control, removal and discharge of trustees, and the appointment of trustees, and the settlement of their ac

counts:

"V. The supervision and control of all corporations other than those of a municipal character, and unincorporated societies or associations, and partnerships:

"VI. The care of trust monies and property, and other monies and property made liable to the control of the said

courts.

"And in such other cases, as the said courts have heretofore possessed such jurisdiction and powers, under the constitution and laws of this commonwealth.

"And in every case in which any court as aforesaid, shall exercise any of the powers of a court of Chancery, the same shall be exercised according to the practice in equity, prescribed or adopted by the Supreme court of the United States, unless it be otherwise provided by act of assembly, or the same shall be altered by the Supreme court of this commonwealth, by general rules and regulations, made and published as is hereinbefore provided; and the Supreme court when sitting in bank, in the city of Philadelphia, and the court of Common Pleas for the said city and county, shall, besides the powers and jurisdiction aforesaid, have the power and jurisdiction of courts of Chancery, so far as relates to"I. The supervision and control of partnerships and corporations other than municipal corporations.

"II. The care of trust monies and property, and other monies and property made liable to the control of the said

courts.

"III. The discovery of facts material to a just determination of issues, and other questions arising or depending in the said courts.

"IV. The determination of rights to property or money claimed by two or more persons, in the hands or possession of a person claiming no right of property therein.

"V. The prevention or restraint of the commission or continu

ance of acts contrary to law, and prejudicial to the interests of the community, or the rights of individuals. "VI. The affording specific relief, when a recovery in damages would be an inadequate remedy: Provided, That in relation to the discovery of facts material to a just determination of issues, and other questions, the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia, shall have the same power and authority, within its jurisdiction, as is hereby conferred on the court of Common Pleas for the said city and county: And provided further, That no process to be issued by the said courts of the city and county of Philadelphia, or the Supreme court, sit

ting therein, under the chancery powers herein specially granted, excepting such as have heretofore been exercised, shall at any time be executed beyond the limits of the city and county aforesaid.

"Section 14. The courts of Oyer and Terminer, and General Jail Delivery, shall have power:

"I. To inquire, by the oaths and affirmation of good and lawful men of the county, of all crimes committed, or triable in such county.

"II. To hear, determine, and punish the same, and to deliver the jails of such county of all prisoners therein, according to law.

"III. To try indictments found in the Quarter Sessions, and certified by the said court, according to law.

"Section 15. The said courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction and power to try and punish all persons charged with any of the crimes herein enumerated, which shall be committed within the respective county, to wit:

"I. All persons charged with any murder, manslaughter, or other homicide, and all persons charged with being accessory to any such crime:

"II. All persons charged with treason against this commonwealth:

"III. All persons charged with sodomy, buggery, rape, or robbery, their counsellors, aiders, comforters and abettors: "IV. All persons charged with arson, or with the crime of voluntarily and maliciously burning any building, or other thing, made punishable in the same manner as arson: "V. All persons charged with mayhem, or with the crimes of cutting out or disabling the tongue, putting out an eye, slitting the nose, cutting off the nose, cutting off a lip, cutting off or disabling any limb or member of another person by lying in wait or with malice aforethought, and with intention in so doing to maim or disfigure such person, and their aiders, abettors and counsellors:

"VI. All persons charged with burglary:

"VII. Every woman who shall be charged with having endeavored privately, either by herself, or the procurement of others, to conceal the death of any issue of her body, male or female, which, if it were born alive, would by

the law, be a bastard, so that it may not be known whether such issue was born dead or alive, or whether it were murdered or not:

"VIII. All persons charged with the second or any subsequent offence of receiving, harboring, or concealing any robber, burglar, felon, or thief, or with the crime of receiving or buying any goods or chattels, which shall have been feloniously taken or stolen, knowing the same to be stolen.

"Section 16.The courts of Quarter Sessions of the peace, shall have jurisdiction and power within their respective counties— "I. To inquire, by the oaths or affirmations of good and lawful men of the county, of all crimes, misdemeanors, and offences whatever, against the laws of this commonwealth, which shall be triable in the respective county: "II. To inquire of, hear, determine and punish, in due form of law, all such crimes, misdemeanors and offences, whereof exclusive jurisdiction is not given, as aforesaid, to the courts of Oyer and Terminer of such county:

"III. To take, in the name of the commonwealth, all manner

of recognizances and obligations heretofore taken, and allowed to be taken, by justices of the peace, and they shall certify such as shall be taken in relation to any crime not triable therein, to the next court of Oyer and Terminer, having power to take cognizance thereof: "IV. To continue or discharge the recognizance and obligations of persons bound to keep the peace, or to be of good behaviour, taken as aforesaid, or certified into such court, by any justice of the peace of such county, and to inquire of, hear and determine, in the manner hitherto practised and allowed, all complaints which shall be founded thereon.

"V. The courts of Quarter Sessions shall also have jurisdiction in cases of fine, penalties, or punishments imposed by any act of assembly, for offences, misdemeanors, or delinquencies, except where it shall be otherwise expressly provided and enacted: Provided, That nothing herein shall alter or affect the jurisdiction of any Mayor's court: And provided also, That the Mayor's