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cases and respects whatsoever, which are vested by the constitution and laws in the supreme court of this state.

"Sect. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the prothonotary of the supreme court, after the next March term, shall, and is hereby impowered and directed to purchase a blank book, for the Western District; and to employ a clerk under his direction to make out a docquet in the same, for the said Western District, containing a statement of all actions then pending, and undetermined in the said supreme court, appertaining to the Western District; and shall have the said docquet together with the records, declarations and other papers, respecting all such actions then pending, and undetermined, as aforesaid, ready to be delivered to the prothonotary of the supreme court, for the Western District, by the first Monday of July next, and shall deliver the same to him accordingly, the price paid for the said docquet, and the wages of the clerk employed as aforesaid, to be repaid to the prothonotary of the supreme court, out of the state treasury, on a warrant drawn by the Governor.

"Sect. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the expiration of March term next, of the supreme court, all actions pending and undetermined in the same court, appertaining to the said Western District, shall be considered as pending in the supreme court, for said Western District; and the judges of the said supreme court in all respects, and in like manner, shall proceed to determine the same as though the said actions had originated in the supreme court for the said Western District.

"Section VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the prothonotaries of the Western and Eastern Districts of the supreme court, to be appointed as by this act provided, shall be accountable to the present prothonotary of the supreme court, and to all others, who may have an interest therein, for all fees, which shall have accrued upon several actions in their respective courts, pending prior to this act taking effect; and the same pay over respectively as shall come to their hands.

"Sect. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the expiration of March term next, of the supreme court, no circuit court of the said supreme court, shall be held otherwise than by a single judge; and it shall be

the duty of the judges of the said supreme court, to hold a circuit court in each county, in this Commonwealth, (the county of Philadelphia excepted), at least, once in every year, at such times as the judges shall appoint; providing, that in such county there shall be causes at issue, and undetermined in the circuit court; and that it shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit courts, to transmit to the judges of the supreme court, in the months of February and August, in every year, a list of the causes pending and at issue, in their respective circuit courts.

"Sect. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the judges in holding the circuit court, shall so alternate, that the same judge shall not sit oftener than once in the same county, in every fourth successive term of said court, to be holden in the said county, unless it shall be rendered impracticable by accident.

"Section XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the judges of the high courts of errors and appeals, shall sustain no new cause, but shall have power to hold two terms, at which all the causes now before them shall be determined, whereupon the said court shall be abolished, and all the powers and duties thereof, shall be vested in, and be exercised by the supreme court of this commonwealth, and the records. thereof, shall be deposited in the office of the prothonotary of the supreme court, for the Eastern District, who is hereby authorized, and directed to receive the same, and to give copies thereof, under the seal of his office, when required on payment of the usual fees; which copies shall be authentic evidence, and as effectual in law, as if the said court had not been abolished, and such copies had been certified by the proper officers thereof.

"Section XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the better and more effective organization of the courts of common pleas, and quarter sessions, the State shall so far as respects said courts, be, and hereby is divided into the following districts or circuits, viz. the city and county of Philadelphia, shall be the first district; the counties of Lancaster, York and Dauphin, shall be the second district; the counties of Berks, Northampton and Wayne, shall be the third district; the counties of Mifflin, Centre, Huntingdon and Bedford, shall be the fourth district; the counties of Beaver, Allegheny, Washington, Fayette and Greene, shall be the fifth district; the counties of

Mercer, Butler, Venango, Crawford and Erie, shall be the sixth district; the counties of Delaware, Chester, Bucks and Montgomery, shall be the seventh district; the counties of Northumberland, Luzerne and Lycoming, shall be the eighth district; the counties of Adams, Cumberland and Franklin, shall be the ninth district; and the counties of Somerset, Cambria, Indiana, Armstrong and Westmoreland, shall be the tenth district.

"Section XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor shall appoint in each of the new districts, created by this act, viz. in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth districts, respectively, a president who shall receive the annual salary of one thousand six hundred dollars, in quarter yearly payments.

"Section XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the city and county of Philadelphia, and in each of the other counties, the president and associate judges, or any two of them, the president being one, shall hold the court of oyer and terminer; and that the said judges or any two of them, shall hold the court of quarter sessions, and that the said judges or any two of them, or the President alone, shall hold the court of quarter sessions, and that the said judges or any two of them, or the president alone, shall, and may hold the court of common pleas.

"Section XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if a vacancy should hereafter happen, in any county at present organized, by the death, resignation, or removal of any associate judge, or otherwise; the governor shall not supply the same, unless the number of associates shall be thereby reduced to less than two, in which case, or in case of any county hereafter organized; he shall commission so many as will complete the number in each county, and no more.

"Section XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the courts of quarter sessions, and common pleas in each county, shall be holden four times a year, and that the courts of quarter sessions, and common pleas in any one county, shall commence on the same day, and that the court of quarter sessions, shall continue four days only, except in the first district; and that the court of common please in the counties of Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Mifflin, Centre, Wayne, Huntingdon, Bedford, Somerset, Cambria, Indiana, Armstrong, West

moreland, Fayette, Beaver, Butler, Allegheny, Washington, Greene, Mercer, Venango, Crawford, and Erie, shall continue one week; and in the counties of Delaware, Chester, Bucks, Montgomery, Northampton, Northumberland, Luzerne, Lycoming, Berks, Lancaster, York and Adams, shall continue for two weeks; and that all issues joined, and for trial by jury, in the said courts of common pleas, in these counties respectively, shall be tried on the second week.

"Section XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a panel of jurors, shall be selected, summoned, and returned, according to the act, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, and the direction of this act, in each county, wherein the term of the court of common pleas is to continue for two weeks, to the first day of every court of quarter sessions, which by this act, is directed. to be holden; and one other panel of jurors, shall be selected, summoned, and returned, according to the aforesaid act, and the direction of this act, to the first day of the second week, of the term directed by this act, for the holding of the courts of common pleas, in the said counties, and that in the other counties, and for the circuit courts throughout the State, the jurors shall be selected, summoned, and returned in all respects, for each and every court, as is directed by the act aforesaid.

"Section XVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff, and county commissioners in each county, wherein the term of the court of common pleas is to continue for two weeks, or any two of them, with the sheriff, agreeably to the act of the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, to select from the list of taxable citizens, the names of an additional and sufficient number of sober judicious persons, to serve as jurors, at the several courts mentioned in this act, to be holden in the said counties in each year; and that the forty-eight jurors first drawn according to the provisions of the said act, shall be summoned for the petit jurors, for the next court of quarter sessions; and that the thirty-six jurors next drawn according to the provisions of the same act, shall be summoned for the jurors at the next court of common pleas; and whenever the court in any of the said counties, at any term, shall order in the manner hereafter directed, that the next court of common pleas, shall continue but

for one week; in that case the jurors shall be selected, summoned, and returned, as at present under the aforesaid act.

"Section XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the supreme court shall have no original jurisdiction in civil cases, and that no civil action before judgment, shall be removed from any court of common pleas to the supreme, or circuit courts, unless the plaintiff's demand, or the value of the controversy between the parties, shall exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, if the action is removed from the court of common pleas in the first district, or the sum of five hundred dollars, if the action is removed from any of the courts of common pleas, in the other districts,

"Section XX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no action shall be removed from any of the courts of common pleas, to the supreme or circuit courts, by consent or otherwise, unless the same is removed, on, or before the first day of the next term, after the said action shall have been commenced; and unless the party or his attorney in the precipe, for the removal of the same, will certify that he verily believes, that the action so to be removed, is within the true spirit. and meaning of the preceding section of this act, and further, that the court wherein the said action shall be tried, shall have power to make the party that removed the same, pay the costs of suit; if in the opinion of the court, the action shall have been removed, without a reasonable foundation of its having been within the true spirit and meaning of the aforesaid section of this act.

"Section XXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the judges of the courts of common pleas in each county, or a majority of them, wherein the term of the court of common pleas is to continue for two weeks, shall have power at every term, to make an order to be entered on record, directing that the court of common pleas at the next term, shall continue only during the first week thereof, and in that case, all business in the courts of quarter sessions and common pleas, shall be acted upon in the first week as has hitherto been usual; but in case no such order shall be made the next term, shall continue as directed by this act.

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