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An Act to amend the third section of an Act entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to extend the civil jurisdiction of the Justices of the Peace in the city of Savannah, and to compel Justices of the Peace and Constables of the country districts in the county of Chatham to be residents of the districts of which they are elected. 1857 269 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0460 and id is 1 raw text is: LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS-JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 261 Chatham County. this Act, the 1005th district, G. M., be and is hereby established as 100h dimt the said district, and the judicial proceedings which may have been libed. had or may hereafter be had therein, shall be legal and valid. Pro- Prmcceddgo ivided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent a par- a ty, against'whom a judgment may have been, or may hereafter be right of at. ,rendered, from right of appeal and usual remedial writs, touching e now the real merits or justice of the case. S. Sec. II. (Repeals conflicting laws.) Assented to December 16th, 1857. (No. 264.) An Act to amend the third section of an Act entitled an Act to repeal an Act en- titled an Act to extend the civil jurisdiction of the Justices of the Peace in the city of Savannah, and to compel Justices of the Peice and Constables of the country districts in the county of Chatham to be residents of the districts of which they are elected, assented to 21st December, 1835, so far as the civil ju- risdiction of the Justices of the Peace for the first, second, third and fourth dis. tricts, Georgia Militia, in the city of Savannah, are concerned, assented to 17th February, 1854,f and also to amend an Act to regulate the trials of slares and free persons of color within the limits of the city of Savannah, assented to 171h December, 1847,t and also an Act~to give the Magistrates within the corporate limits of the city of Savannah, the right to hold their Courts more than one day in each term. 4. Section 1. Be it enacted, That from and after the passage of 3dsee.fatt this Act, the third section of the above recited Act shall be altered 64b, 17t and amended as follows, to-wit: the Justices of the Peace shall be ded allowed, in all cases, for drawing a jury and making out the venirijg'feb $1 00; for every witness subpoena, 314 cents; for issuing notices to inchatham Magistrates or for taking examination of defendants, prisoners or witneses, each, 50 cents; for every order to bring up a prisoner or to discharge one from jail, 621 cents; Constables for taking a pris- eotab' oner to jail, under civil process, $1 25. 5. Sec. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Talesmen on the trial of a slave ir person of color, where there is not a suf- a, t ficient number of jurors of the original panel present, the Constable, by direction of the Justice, shall fill and complete such jury by tales- men, provided there shall be not less than three of the original pan- el on such jury. 6. Sec. III. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same,jumtire may hold court That it shall and may be lawful for the Magistrates, ivithin the cor- more than 1 porate limits of the city of Savannah, to hold their Courts more than Y h, one day in each term, in case their business is such as to require it. 7. Sec. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Assented to December 16th, 1857. 0 See for this Act, Acts of 1835, p. 142. t See Acts of 1853-'4, p. 325. 1 See Acts of 1817, p. 202.

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