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1807 303 (1807)

handle is hein.ssl/ssnc0166 and id is 1 raw text is: At aG ENER AL ASSEM81B Y, begun and held at Raleigh, on iio'rtay the us, n.. Sixteenth cay of November, in the Year of our Lord One 'l housand ) '-;. Eight Hundred and'Seven, and in the Thirty-Second Year of the inde. nor. pendence of the State., An act to amend an act, entitled, i An act for the more uniformand convenient ardministrati-n of justice cnAr. 1. within this State, and one other act oujiflementary thereto, /;assed thc.laat aession of the General A.Tcnbly. W ilEIREAS the mode pointed out by the first section of the act amendatorv to the abovo mentioned Ante 273.275. act, of selecting jurors from the tax returns, is oftern attended with great injury to the administration of justice: .DR it therefore enacted by thle GeneralzAasenmly ofthe State of .orth-Gtrolina,and it ig hereby enacted by fl' Mnner or ap. authority offthe sane, That it shall be the duty of the Justices ofthe several County Courts within this State, pomung JUror. it) the appointment of Jurors, to select and chuse such only as are well qualified to discharge the important truast and duty of Jurors. II. And be it furthir enactcd, That the Justices of the several County Courts within this State, at their Tiaks examn. sessions which may ne-xt happen after the passing of this act, are hereby required carefully to examine the ed. jury lists already made.. out, and diligently enquire ifany persons qualified to be Jurors as above-mentionedf are omitted, and whetlvr any persons, not qualified to be jurors as above-mentioned, have been inserted; and if they find-thatanny have been.omitted, they shall add them to the jury list to be Irawn as directed by the said act, and if they find that any have been inserted not possessing the requisite qualifications, they shall direct the name of such person to he stricken out from the jury list ; and to obtain full information on tius. subject, the said Courts may examine the Sherife, Clerks, or any other persons, on oath or aflilima- tion. 11.. Andhe it firjher enacted, That the jury list so as aforesaid madeup by the several Couinty Courts in Lts made fox this State, shall exist for the space of two yeaty in-its operation, instead.of three year.,, as prescribed by the two years. said act. IV. Aud he it fizrther enacted, That the several Superior Courts within this State shall hereafter ha -e Superior courts concurrent jurisdiction with the several County Courts within their respective Counties, of all pleas and c rurrent ji. prosecutions of the Stale, and of all actions of slander, with full. power and authority to pass thereon every risdaction- proper judgment, sentence or decree, and to issue all necessary piocess to carry the same into complete effect. An act to amend an act, entitled An act to amend an act passed at Hillsborough in the year one thou., enAr. 2. sand seven hundred and eighty two, for establishing courts of equity, and to regulate proceedings i Arc 17g. appeals.from the Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to theSuperior Courts of law. E it enacted by the General Assemlyz of the State if Nocrth-Carolina, and it is hereb enacted b,. the an. Manney orcon. thirity of the same, That when any defendant or defendants in any action of debt, covenant or assump- ductiqgappeals' sit, shall appeal fin, the judgement of any Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to a Superior Court, and shall not, uplron the trial of such appeal, diminish the sum recovered, by the plaintill or plaintfls in the Courtsof Pleas and Q,'trter Sessions, it shall and may be lawful for the said Superior Court (if it appear' that the appeal was taken fo:, the purpose of delay) to give judgment in behalf of the plaintiff or plaintilTs, not only for the amou.t the.ver ict rendlered in said court, but also for a sum in addition thereto, not ex- ceeding four per centum per annum, on the principal sum recovered, from the time of the judgment in the inferinr Court, to the time of com eriiip up the same in the'Superior Court; which additionil sum shall be contidered as a pnalty, aid shall not draw interest in cases where interest is allowed on jidgments. I. Alnd lie it fi!-th/r enactr J. That when any plaintiffor plaihtilfs shall appeal from the judgment of any Costs, Courtof Pleas and Quarter Sesiions to a Superior Court. and shall not recover in stid Superior Court a greater sum than.that recovered in the Couit of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, independently of the interest accrued since the former jidmeit, he, she or they shalf not rccovev the cost of the appeal, but shall be lia. hlcat the discretion of the Superior Court, to pay the same. Ill. /ld be it riutthi r enacted, That all acts and clauses of acts that colne within the purview and mean. ing of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. 4. It,

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