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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0294 and id is 1 raw text is: 1860-'61- CIAP. 16-17. 27'
suits pending in said courts when the intervention of a
jury is necessary, and by the 1st day of August next to
deliver the same to the clerk of the superior court of said
county, together with all papers relating to said suits; and
it shall be the duty of said clerk of the superior court to
enter the case aforesaid upon the docket of the superior
court, observing the order 6f precedence of each suit as
indicated by its number.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That whenever an issue sueoofrfraud
f etc.,tranmforreY
of devisavit, vol novo or fraud in any capias ad satisfa-
ciendurn, issue of bastardy, or any other question of fact
requiring the intervention of a jury, such issue shall, upon
being made up in the said court, be immediately trans-
mitted to the superior court for trial, and any clerk fail-
ing to perform the duties enjoined by this act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That after two years from Jury trials may
Sof leasrestored in two
the passage of this act, the justices of said court of pleas years.i
and quarter sessions, a majority of them being present,
shall have the power to restore jury trials in said court.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the provisions ofExtonds Pro.
this bill [act] shall apply, so far as they are applicable, to n.
the county of Jackson, from and after the third Monday
in March, A. D. 1861.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws coming in npeals former
0 laws,
conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
[Ratifted the 23d day of February, 1861.
CONVENTION.
AN ACT CONCERNING A CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE. Chap. 17.
WHEREAS, The present perilous condition of the coun- rreamble.
try demands, in the judgment of this General Assembly,
that the sovereign people of this State should assemble in
convention to effect an honorable adjustment of existing
difficulties whereby the Federal Union is endangered, or
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