In the absence of the chief judge, who to preside. In the absence of two judges, how the court is to be formed. Chief judge may call a special court. Judges may adjourn the courts. When a court the matter or thing in demand shall not exceed the sum of three huudred and thirty-five dollars, (excepting suits for relief against any judgment rendered, or cause depending at law, in the superior courts,) and may proceed therein to final sentence and decree, and enforce the same, according to the rules of equity. SECT. 17. In the absence of, or legal exception to, the chief judge of any county court, the senior associate judge present, and qualified, shall preside, and be subject to all the duties, and invested with all the powers, for the time being, as the chief judge ; and when it shall so happen, that, by reason of the absence of, or legal exception to, any two of the judges of any county court, there shall be but one judge present, qualified to try any cause pending in the same, the said judge may call to his assistance any one of the justices of the peace, for the same county, not legally disqualified to judge in said cause, and proceed to the trial of the same. SECT. 18. The chief judge of each county court, may call a special county court, upon any extraordinary occasion; and the judges of said court may adjourn the same, when they shall deem it necessary, to some distant time; and whenever it shall so happen that no more than one of the judges of said court shall appear on the day, is not formed, and at the place, appointed by law, for holding the court, the said judge may adjourn the same, from day to day, till a quorum of judges do attend; and whenever no one of the judges of said court shall appear on said day, the sheriff of the county in which the said court is to be holden, is hereby directed to adjourn the same, from day to day, till one or more of the judges do attend, to hold said how to proceed. Sheriff may adjourn the court. Courts may appoint their clerks and county treasurers. Clerk's duty and power. Presiding judge to have a casting vote. court. SECT. 19. The county courts are authorized to appoint and swear their own clerks, and treasurers for their respective counties; which clerks, so appointed and sworn, are empowered to sign all writs and processes, as justices of the peace by law are; also, to grant executions on judgments rendered by said courts, on which executions are to be issued, and to do all other matters and things, according to the orders and directions of said courts, proper for them in the execution of said office, and according to law. SECT. 20. The chief judge, or presiding judge, for the time being, of the county courts, whenever there shall be an equal division of opinion, on any question before said courts, shall have a casting voice. The like power and authority, every president or moderator, in any civil court, arbitration, meeting, or assembly, shall exercise, in similar cases, except when the law provides otherwise. no other per SECT. 21. The county courts may alter and establish County courts rules of practice, in their respective courts; may direct may establish rules of pracwhen pleas shall be filed and entered; may make such tice; rules and regulations as to them shall seem proper, relative to the admission and practice of attornies; may admit attor approve of, admit, and cause to be sworn as attornies, nies; such persons as are qualified therefor, agreeably to the rules established, which admission shall be registered by the clerk; and no person not thus admitted, (except in his own cause,) shall be admitted or allowed to plead at son to plead ; the bar of any court; nor shall more than one attorney how many atbe allowed to plead on the same side of any cause, ex- tornies in an cept wherein the title of land, or right of way, may be in action; question, or the sum in demand shall exceed forty dollars; and in no case, shall more than two attornies be admitted to plead, on the same side. And said attornies to be under shall be under the direction of the courts before whom the direction they plead; and said courts may fine them, not exceed of the courts; may be fined, ing one dollar for any one offence against their rules, or suspended or suspend, or displace them, for transgressing the rules of displaced. pleading, or other rules, or regulations established by said courts, or for other just cause. ed. SECT. 22. And the county courts in each county, shall State attornies appoint one attorney for the state, who shall prosecute, to be appointmanage, and plead in the county where appointed, in all matters proper for, and in behalf of the state; and who shall hold his office for two years, unless sooner remov- Term of office. ed by said courts. Each attorney for the state, before entering upon the duties of his office. shall take the oath Oath. prescribed by the constitution for executive officers, and shall give bond, with surety, to the treasurer of the state, Bond. and to his acceptance, in the sum of three thousand dollars, conditioned that such attorney shall annually account for, and pay over, according to law, all monies belonging to the state, which he may receive as attorney for the state. And whenever the attorney for the state shall be absent or disqualified to act in any cause, the county or superior court before whom the same is pending, may appoint a special attorney for the prosecution Special attorof the cause in question; and also, on application of the ney. attorney for the state, may appoint an assistant attorney, attorney. to aid in the prosecution of any suit, information or indictment. Assistant to take care of county pro SECT. 23. The county courts, in the respective coun- County courts ties, are hereby authorized and directed to take care of all the property, real and personal, in their respective perty. counties, which belongs to such county; and the same to let, demise and manage, for the benefit of such county; and when they shall judge expedient, may sell or purchase Times and places of holding courts in Hartford county. New-Haven oounty. New-London county. Fairfield county. Windham Litchfield county. real estate; and all conveyances of estates, to, or from a county, shall be done in the name of the treasurer of the county, and his successors in office; and the said courts may, at their discretion, license any suitable person, who is keeper of the gaol in either of the counties, and resident in a house belonging to such county, to be a tavern er. SECT. 24. The several courts herein before mentioned, shall be held at the times and places herein after specified, to wit.-In the County of Hartford: The supreme court of errors, on the second Tuesday in June. The superior court, on the second Tuesday in February; and on the first Tuesday in September. The county court, on the fourth Tuesday in March; on the second Tuesday in August; and on the second Tuesday in November.In the county of New-Haven: The supreme court of errors, on the Tuesday following the fourth Tuesday in June. The superior court, on the third Tuesday in January; and on the second Tuesday in August. The county court, on the third Tuesday in March; on the fourth Tuesday in June; and on the fourth Tuesday in November.-In the county of New-London: The supreme court of errors, on the third Tuesday in July, alternately at New-London and Norwich, beginning at New-London. The superior court, on the fourth Tuesday in January; and on the first Tuesday in October; yearly, alternately at New-London and Norwich, beginning at New-London. The county court, on the first Tuesday in March, alternately at New-London and Norwich, beginning at New-London; on the second Tuesday in June, at New-London; on the third Tuesday in November, at Norwich.-In the county of Fairfield: The supreme court of errors, on the fourth Tuesday in June, alternately at Fairfield and Danbury, beginning at Danbury. The superior court, on the third Tuesday in September, at Danbury; and on the last Tuesday in December, at Fairfield. The county court, on the last Tuesday in February, alternately at Fairfield and Danbury, beginning at Fairfield; on the third Tuesday of April, at Fairfield; and on the third Tuesday in November, at Danbury. In the county of Windham: The supreme court of errors, on the fourth Tuesday in July. The superior court, on the first Tuesday in January; and on the second Tuesday in September. The county court, on the third Tuesday in August; on the third Tuesday in March; and on the second Tuesday in December.-In the county of Litchfield: The supreme court of errors, on the third Tuesday in June. The superior court, on the third Tuesday in February; and on the third Tuesday in Middlesex August. The county court, on the first Tuesday in April; SECT. 25. Be it further enacted, That there shall be a Courts of procourt of probate, held and kept in each of the several bate constitudistricts, hereinafter mentioned, to be held by one judge, ted. to be appointed and commissioned for that purpose, each of which judges shall have a clerk, by him to be appoint ed and sworn to the office; which courts of probate shall Their power have the cognizance of the probate of wills and testa- and duty. ments, the grauting of administration, the appointing and allowing of guardians, and shall act and judge in all testamentary and probate matters, and in every other thing proper for a court of probate to act and judge in, according to law. SECT. 26. The districts of the several courts of pro- Probate disbate, shall be as follows, to wit:-The towns of Hartford, tricts estabWindsor, Wethersfield, East-Hartford, Glastenbury, and lished. that part of Berlin which was formerly in the town of Hartford. Wethersfield, shall be one district, by the name of the district of Hartford. The towns of New-Haven, Mil- New-Haven. ford, Derby, Woodbridge, East-Haven, North-Haven, Hamden and Oxford, shall be one district, and be called the district of New-Haven. The towns of New-London, New-London. Lyme, Montville, Waterford, and that part of Salem which was formerly in the town of Lyme, shall be one district, and be called the district of New-London. The towns Fairfield. of Fairfield and Weston, shall be one district, and be called the district of Fairfield. The towns of Windham, Windham. Lebanon, Mansfield, and Hampton, shall be one district, and be called the district of Windham. The towns of Plainfield, Canterbury, Killingly, (except the north socie- Plainfield. ty) Voluntown, Sterling, and that part of Brooklyn which was formerly a part of Canterbury, shall be one district, and be called the district of Plainfield. The towns of Guilford and Branford, (except the society of Northford) Guilford. Woodbury. East-Haddam. Litchfield. Stamford. Danbury. Norwich. Middletown. Pomfret. shall be one district, and be called the district of Guilford. The towns of Woodbury, Southbury, Roxbury, Bethlehem, and the society of Judea, in the town of Washington, shall be one district, and called the district of Woodbury. The towns of East-Haddam, Colchester, Marlborough, the part of Chatham, south of Salmon river, and the part of Salem that was formerly a part of Colchester, shall be one district, and be called the district of East-Haddam. The towns of Litchfield, Goshen, Torrington, Cornwall, Harwinton, Warren, and Washington, (except the society of Judea) shall be one district, and be called the district of Litchfield. The towns of Stamford, Greenwich, and Darien, shall be one district, and be called the district of Stamford. The towns of Danbury, Reading, Ridgefield, and New-Fairfield, shall be one district, and be called the district of Danbury. The towns of Norwich, Preston, Lisbon, Franklin, Bozrah, and Griswold, shall be one district, and be called the district of Norwich. The towns of Middletown, Haddam, Durham, Chatham, (except that part south of Salmon river) and that part of Berlin, which was formerly a part of the town of Middletown, shall be one district, and be called the district of Middletown. The towns of Pomfret, Ashford, Woodstock, the north society in Killingly, Thompson, and that part of Brooklyn, not included in the district of Plainfield, shall be one district, and called the district of Pomfret. The towns of Sharon, Salisbubury, and Canaan, shall be one district, and be called the district of Sharon. The towns of Stafford, Tolland, Willington, Somers, Union, Vernon, and the east part of Ellington, extending as far west as the west line of Tolland, shall be one district, and called the district of Stafford. The towns of Simsbury, Canton, New-Hartford, and Barkhampstead, shall be one district, and called the Stonington. district of Simsbury. The towns of Stonington, Groton, and North-Stonington, shall be one district, and called Farmington. the district of Stonington. The towns of Farmington, Southington, Bristol, Burlington, and that part of Berlin, which was formerly a part of the town Farmington, shall be one district, and called the district of Farmington. The towns of Wallingford, Cheshire, Meriden, and the society of Northford in the town of Branford, shall be one district, and called the district of Wallingford. The towns of Saybrook and Killingworh, shall be one district, and called the district of Saybrook. The towns of Stratford, Huntington, Trumbull, and Bridgeport, shall be one district, and called the district of Stratford. The towns East-Windsor. of East-Windsor, Enfield, and that part of Ellington, which lies west of a meridian line drawn from the Sharon. Stafford. Simsbury. Wallingford. Saybrook. Stratford. |