LAWS OF KENTUCKY. PASSED AT NOVEMBER SESSION, 1851. LAZARUS W. POWELL, GOVERNOR; JOHN B. THOMPSON, LIEUT. GOVER- GENERAL LAWS. CHAPTER 1. Special term AN ACT authorizing a special term of the Woodford Circuit Court. §1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the judge of the eleventh district to be held. be and is hereby authorized to hold a special term of the Woodford circuit court the second Monday of the present month, for the trial of criminal cases, and all cases at common law or in chancery in said court; and said judge is to proceed in the same manner as if said court had been held the first Monday of September last. Process re turnable there. § 2. That all process that has issued, or may hereafter issue from the clerk's office of said circuit court, returnable to to the second Monday of November, 1851, shall be as valid as if they had been issued returnable to a term of said court as now fixed by law. § 3. The special session of said court authorized by this act to be held may continue twelve days, if the business require it. BY THE GOVERNOR: GEO. ROBERTSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN B. THOMPSON, Lieut. Governor and Speaker of the Senate. Approved November 6, 1851. L. W. POWELL. DAVID MERIWETHER, Secretary of State. Length of term. CHAPTER 10. AN ACT to extend the provisions of an act, entitled, an act regulating the price of taking up boats on the Ohio river, approved January 29, 1829, to all the navigable streams in this state. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That all the provisions of an act, entitled, an act to regulate the price of taking up boats on the Ohio river, approved January 29, 1829, be and they are 1851. hereby extended to all the navigable streams in this state; and this shall apply also to rafts, saw logs, and lumber of every description; and the person or persons taking up the same, if he or they shall secure such rafts, logs, or lumber, shall be entitled to and receive fifteen cents for each log so taken up and secured, which the owner or owners shall pay before they shall take the same into possession. Approved November 18, 1851. and County courts judge authoriz'd to grant changes presiding of venue. Change of ve nue to be made on certain con to circuit court ditions. When change papers, &c., to made, original be sent also. CHAPTER 18. AN ACT regulating changes of venue from County Courts. § 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That from and after the passage of this act, changes of venue of any and all causes and motions pending in any county court within this commonwealth, or in the court held by the presiding judge of any county at his quarterly or monthly terms, shall and may be granted in the same manner, under the same limitations and restrictions, and for the same causes as are prescribed by "an act to amend the several acts authorizing changes of venue in civil cases," approved February 3d, 1815, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 6, 1819. The changes of venue authorized by this act shall be made to the circuit court of the county in which the cause or motion may be pending, unless there be a legal ground of objection to the judge of the circuit court, or to the trial of the cause or notion in that county, in which case the change of venue shall be awarded to the circuit court of the nearest county to which the objection does not apply; and the mode of trial and rules of procedure shall be the same prescribed for the trial of such causes or motions in the court from whence the same may be removed, so far as the same are applicable. § 2. When any change of venue shall be so ordered, the judge or clerk of the county court, as the case may be, shall send the original papers, together with a transcript of all orders which have been made in the cause or motion, to the clerk of the court to which the change of venue is awarded; and upon disposing of the matter, the court, according to the nature of the case, shall direct whether the original papers shall remain, or whether they shall be remanded to the court from whence they came. Discretionary When they are remanded, the clerk of the circuit court shall retain a special statement of the taxation of costs, and return the original papers, with copies of all orders made in the premises by the circuit court, in the court from whence they came; and when any paper is so returned, which, according to the order or judgment of the circuit court, ought to be recorded in the county court office, it with court to retain papers. |