Serving all papers, Attending Examiner to file any charge or discharge, For all other services the like fees as are allowed to Attorneys on the Common Law side of the Supreme Court. Postage actually incurred. The Solicitor General to have one fourth more in cases that concern the Crown. Retaining fee, Counsel. £0 1 0 0 3 4 068 - 1 0 0 Perusing and signing bill, answer, plea, demurrer, or other special pleading, interrogatories or Arguing every plea, demurrer, or other special matter before the Court or on the hearing, fee at the discretion of the Court. Attending the examination of, and examining each witness, 0 15 0 Counsel fees on special matters, where their assistance is necessary and not otherwise pro- CAP. XIX. An Act to regulate the Circuit Courts, and Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and Sittings after Term. Be it enacted, &c.-1. There shall be Sittings for the County of York, and Circuit Courts for every County in the Province, at which a Justice of the Supreme Court shall preside, and where issues joined in the Supreme Court shall be tried, and also where all manner of crimes and offences shall be heard, enquired into, tried, determined, and punished, without any Commission. 2. The said Courts shall be holden in the several Counties at the following periods only : In the County of York, on the third Tuesday in February, and fourth Tuesday in June. In the City and County of Saint John, on the second Tuesday in May, and the first Tuesday in November; and there shall be no Circuit Court held in and for the said City and County during the month of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. In the County of Charlotte, on the fourth Tuesday in April, and the Tuesday next after the fourth Tuesday in October. In the County of King's, on the second Tuesday in July. In the County of Queen's, on the first Tuesday in March. In the County of Albert, on the third Tuesday in July. In the County of Westmorland, on the fourth Tuesday in July. In the County of Kent, on the Tuesday next after the fourth Tuesday in July. In the County of Gloucester, on the first Tuesday in September. In the County of Northumberland, on the second Tuesday in September. In the County of Carleton, on the last Tuesday in September. In the County of Sunbury, on the last Tuesday in February. In the County of Restigouche, on the last Tuesday in August. In the County of Victoria, on the Wednesday before the last Tuesday in September. 3. Special Courts of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery may be held when necessary in any County, with the same powers, privileges, incidents, and duties in all respects as to crimes and offences, as the several Courts provided by this Act, for which purpose a Commission shall be issued as is now the practice. 4. The several Courts shall be opened and commence at the time prescribed therefor, and continue as long as may be necessary for the dispatch of business. If it should happen from any unadvoidable cause that a Court should not be opened on the day appointed therefor, the same may be done on the following day, unless it be a day of public rest, then on the next succeeding day; but all proceedings shall be as of the first day, and relate thereto. All parties, witnesses, jurors, and other ministers of the law, shall attend, and be bound by the same penalties in all respects as if the Court had been opened at the proper time. 5. The Clerk of the Crown in the Supreme Court shall be Clerk of the Crown and of Nisi Prius at the Sittings for the County of York. 6. When it may be necessary to finish the business, the presiding Judge may adjourn any of the said Courts to a future day, though a Term of the Supreme Court intervene, and though in case of a Special Court, the time limited by the Commission expire. 7. All parties, ministers of the law, jurors and witnesses summoned, shall, if required by the presiding Judge at the time of adjournment, attend such adjourned Court, or new juries may be drawn and summoned to attend, and be charged with the like pains and penalties for any misdemeanor or default at such adjourned Court, as at the first Court, but no witness in a civil cause shall be liable to any proceeding for non-attendance, unless duly served with a subpoena to attend such adjourned Court, aud his expenses be paid or tendered. 8. The record and proceedings shall in all respects be dealt with as if they were expressed to be returnable at the Term next following the adjourned Courts, and no new cause shall be entered for trial. 9 All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed. CAP. XX. An Act to amend the Law to regulate proceedings before Justices of the Peace in Civil Suits, as relates to Corporations. 1. Repeal of Section, and authority to 2. Mode of proceeding. Justices to sue Corporations. Passed 1st May 1854. Be it enacted, &c.-1. So much of the provisions ofthe second Section of an Act made and passed in the fourth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to regulate the proceedings of Justices of the Peace in Civil Suits, as exempts from the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, actions against Corporations, except Banking and Insurance Companies, is hereby repealed, and Justices of the Peace shall have the like jurisdiction over all Corporations, except Banking and Insurance Companies, as are given by the said Act in other cases. 2. All the proceedings against such Corporations shall be by Summons in the form required by the said Act, and shall be served on the Mayor, Warden, President, Head Officer, Secretary, Treasurer, or the accredited Agent or Officer of any Foreign Company transacting business within the Province. |