United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 16
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Chap. XVI.—An Act for the appointment of an additional judge, and extending the right of suffrage to the citizens of Madison county, in the Mississippi territory.
The citizens of Madison county to elect one representative and to vote for one delegate from the territory to Congress.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the citizens of Madison county, in the Mississippi territory, qualified according to law, be and they are hereby authorized to elect one representative to the general assembly of said territory, and also to vote for one delegate from said territory, to the Congress of the United States, which election shall be held at the same time, and in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for the elections in the several counties of said territory.
Additional judge to be appointed to reside in Madison county.
1804, ch. 59.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That an additional judge shall be appointed for the Mississippi territory, who shall reside in said county of Madison, and have the same compensation, which is by law allowed to the other judges of said territory, and shall possess and exercise the same powers and jurisdiction within said county, which are possessed and exercised in the county of Washington in said territory, by the judge appointed by virtue of an act, entituled “An act for the appointment of an additional judge for the Mississippi territory and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-seventh of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Superior court of Adams county may re-examine, and reverse or affirm the judgments of Washington and Madison courts.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all final judgments and decrees, rendered in the superior courts of said counties of Washington and Madison, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed, by the superior court of Adams county in said territory, upon a writ of error issued from said superior court; which said superior court is hereby empowered, upon the reversal of any judgment or decree of said courts of Washington and Madison counties, to render such judgment as the court from whence the cause may have been removed ought to have rendered; except where a jury may be requisite to try issues or assess damages.When acting as an appellate court, superior court of Adams to consist of two judges. In which cases the cause shall be remanded to the court where it originated; there to be proceeded in. And said superior court of Adams county, when sitting on the trial of any cause removed as aforesaid, shall be composed of not less than two judges.
Legislature authorized to establish superior courts.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the legislature of said territory shall have power and is hereby authorized, to establish a superior court in each county, which has been or may be formed within the bounds which compose the former district or county of Washington, to be holden by the judge who holds the superior court of Washington county in said territory, which courts and the courts of Madison county to be holden at such times and places as said legislature may direct. And all final judgments and decrees to be rendered by any superior court so established, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the manner prescribed by the third section of this act, and the conditions on which any writ of error shall be obtained, and all other proceedings relative thereto, may be regulated by said legislature.
Part of a former act repealed.
1804, ch. 59.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, entituled “An act for the appointment of an additional judge for the Mississippi territory, and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, as comes within the purview of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, March 2, 1810.