1 sioners to convey corded. missioner or commissioners shall, as such, convey Circuit court to said tract to the complainant or complainants; appoint commis. and when said conveyance is reported to said cir- lands. cuit court, and is approved by the judges thereof, it shall be acknowleded by the commissioners before the clerk of any county court, and recorded Deeds to be re in the county where the land lies, and shall be sufficient to pass the legal estate, and to vest the same in the complainant or complainants, to all intents and purposes; and shall be as sufficient to bar and Mene conveyan overreach all mesne conveyances made pending, or subsequent to the contest, by the defendant or defendants as it would have been, had said decree been effectuated by the said late supreme court: and from the appointment of said commissioners, and their report of conveyance, and all orders of No writ of error the circuit court mado concerning the writ of error or appeal shall lie to the court of appeals. same, no ces barred. or appeal to be taken. plainant has been to the transferee SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That if the com- Where the interplainant or complainants, in any such suit in chan- est of the comcery, shall have transfered or conveyed his inter- transfered, the est in the land to any other person, it shall be law- deed to be made ful for the assignee or transferee, to produce his assignment or conveyance in writing, to any circuit court, together with a copy of the record, as directed by the second section of this act; and thereupon said court shall direct a conveyance to be made to said assignee or transferee, in the same manner as directed by this act, to the complainant or complainants; and the conveyance so made, shall have the same force and effect, and be subject to the same rules and rugulations, as in the case of a complainant or complainants. for be revived by SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That if any such Judgments final decree or judgment at law, now existing a- money, &c. may mong the records of said late supreme court, shall scire facias. be for money or other specific article, and not for lands, the complainant or plaintiffs, may file a complete copy of the record, in the circuit court of that county where the defendant or defendants, or one or more of them may reside, and may issue a scire facias thereon, as in the case of other dormant judg ments or decrees, existing in said circuit court; and like proceedings shall be had thereon, as in A A other cases of sciere facias to revive; and the defendant or defendants may appear and plead any legal plea or matter, which may have arisen since the original judgment or decree, as in other cases, CHAP. CCCXCVIII. AN ACT extending the several Terms of the Scott APPROVED, February 10, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the several terms of the Scott circuit court, shall hereafter be continued and holden for the space of three weeks, if the business thereof shall require it. altered. СНАР. СССХСІХ. AN ACT to alter the time of holding certain Courts, and to establish new Judicial Districts. APPROVED, February 10, 1816. Mnyet to Terms SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the terms of the Fayette circuit court, holden in the months of March, June and September, shall hereafter commence on the first Monday in the months. aforesaid in every year, and shall sit four weeks each term if the business shall require it, in addition to the terms now allowed by law for the trial of chancery causes, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.. Return of pro SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all recogregulated. nizances and process of every kind, now made re-, turnable to the next term of the Fayette circuit court, shall be, and the same is hereby made retrurnable to the first day of the next term of said court as directed to be held by this act; and the same shall be as binding and obligatory in all res Allén terms al And be it further enacted, That the tered and proeircuit court in and for the county of Allen, shall es regulated. hereafter be held on the third Mondays in the months of May, August and November, and may sit six juridical days at each term, if the business shall not be sooner finished; and all recognizances for any person or persons to appear in said court, which would have been in February, 1816, had this act not passed, and all process of every kind, made returnable to the said February term of said court, or on any day of said term, shall be good and valid in law, to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been taken for the appearance of such person or persons at the May term, appointed by this act, or such process as had been made returnable to said May term of said court; and shall be as binding and obligatory in all respects, and upon all parties, as they would have been, had this act not have passed. Bath courts at SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the circuit court for the county of Bath, shall hereafter com- tered. mence on the third mondays in March, June and September, and continue six juridical days, if the business in court requires it-The Greenup circuit Greenup. court shall hereafter commence and be holden on the fourth Mondays in April, July and October, and shall continue in session twelve juridical days if the busines in court requires it. The circuit court of Floyd county shall hereafter com- Floyd. mence on the first Mondays in May, August and November, and continue in session six juridical days, if the business in court requires. All process returnable to the terms heretofore holden, shall be returnable to the terms of the aforesaid . courts as by this act directed: all recognizances Process regulato appear at the terms heretofore directed, shall be ted valid at the terms hereby directed, and be construed as if they were taken to appear at the terms hereafter to be holden. County courts shall hereafter be holden in said counties in the months when the circuit courts were holden, as the law formerly stood. The said counties of Montgomery, County court terma regulated. Eleventh judi regulations res pecting it. Bath, Greenup and Floyd, shall be, and the same Bial district and are hereby erected into a judical district, called and known by the name of the eleventh judicial district; and to preside and act in said new district, a circuit judge and district attorney shall be ap pointed, who shall possess the same powers and jurisdiction, and exercise the same functions, and receive the same salary from the treasury, payable in like manner now exercised and assigned by law to other circuit judges and district attornies in this Commonwealth. The county The county of Pendleton hereby detached from the judicial district to which dexed to 2d dir it formerly belonged, and is annexed to the second judicial district; and the judge of the said second district shall preside in, and hold the circuit courts of said county of Pendleton, in like manner as he exercises the same functions in other counties composing the second judicial district. Pendleton an vict cial district and regulations. is SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That a new disTwelfth judi trict shall be composed of the counties of Knox, Clay, Rockcastle, Pulaski and Wayne, to be de nominated the twelfth; and that a circuit judge and Commonwealth's attorney, shall be appointed in said district, possessing the same powers and emoluments that are by law allowed to those officers. And the courts in each county of the twelfth district, shall commence and be holden, on the same days that are now directed by law. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, That the WashWashington ington circuit court be detached from the Nelson annexed to Mer and Jefferson judicial district, and annexed to the Mercer and Lincoln judicial district, cer. CHAP. CCCC. AN ACT supplemental to the act entitled, an act fixing the Ratio and apportioning the Representation for the next four years. APPROVED, February 10, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That one repre sentative shall be, and is hereby given to the county of Henry, in addition to the representation now allowed by law to said county, for and during the term of the next four years. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That one repreresentative shall be, and is hereby given to the county of Pulaski, in addition to the representation now allowed by law to said county, for and during the term of the next four years. CHAP. CCCCI. AN ACT supplemental to the act entitled, " an act regulating certain Surveys in this Commonwealth." APPROVED, February 10, 1816. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That no grant shall issue upon any survey made since the 30th day of September, 1798, on any Virginia land office treasury warrant, or which may hereafter be made on such warrant, until the surveyor shall give the certificate, and the proprietor shall make the affidavit required by the act entitled, an act regulating certain surveys within this commonwealth, approved February the 10th, 1816, nor until all those requisites by said act required, as to the surveys therein mentioned, shall be complied with, as to the surveys herein mentioned. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That surveyors and proprietors, shall respectively be subject to the same pains and penalties for a false certificate, or false oath, relative to surveys in this act mentioned, as are prescribed in the before mentioned act. |