on valuation of orphans’ estates, per day, two dollars ; return thereon, seventy-five cents ; venireto summon a jury in a forcible entry and detainer, seventy-five cents ; taking inquisition and return thereon, four dollars; warrant of restitution, seventytaking acknowledgment of any deed, each justice including all the persons acknowledging at ; taking any other acknowledgment, twelve and an half cents; taking appeal bond, twenty-five cents ; taking a bail-piece to the general or county courts, twenty-five cents ; a pass, twenty-five cents; certificates of stra)-s, thirty-seven and an half cents ; taking inspectors’ bonds, each justice twenty-five “—-probat of county clerk’s bond, each justice twenty-five ,, AndBeItEnacted,That it shall be the duty of justices of all and every justice of the peace to write and prepare all pro- the peace t?hats, affidavits, supersedeas, and other instruments to be execu- PTM” ted by them in virtue of this law, when required, except in cas- ‘ idedgment of deeds. . AndBeItEnacted,That every justice of the And take an : justice, before he acts as such, shall take an “ot to that he will not, directly or indirectly, receive any great- greater fee^ er fee or reward for any thing in his office as justice of the than is alpeace than what is allowed by this act; and if any associate |TMved byjustice, or justice of the peace, by colour of his office, shall re- us act’ ceive any lee or reward for any service not specified in this act, or if any associate justice, or justice of the peace, shall receive any greater fee or reward for any service mentioned in this act than is hereby allowed, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars for every such offence, but such justice shall not be liable to prosecution after twelve months Irom the time of the offence committed, .XXXLII. AndBeItEnacted,That all causes, pleas, process J^”"^’ and proceedings, relative to any case, civil or criminal, which n°d f^,^ shall be returnable to, or depending before, the several county ty courts, escourts of this state, when this act shall commence, shall be re- tablished by turned to the several county courts constituted by this act, at th’s act the times herein before appointed for the holding of each court, and shall be heard, tried and determined therein, in the same manner as if no change had been made in the said courts; and “^out of any of the said county courts shall be” in case of his death, disqualification, before a new appointment, in the name of the associate justice first named in the commission, and all writ^fJls^Lbe’ returnable on the days appointed byNovember,.CHAP. l.XXIV.Coinmi!raenij, ice. to be returned to the justices appointed by this act.Original jurisdiction of general court bridged.Section repealed.No suit shall be removed before judgment to general court, of which it has not original jurisdiction.Certain actions not to abate, upon the death of either of the parties.XXXIV. AndBeItEnacted,That all commitments anct recognizances tor all felonies, crimes, offences or misdemeanors, committed in the several counties, and triable by law in the county court’s, shall be returned to the justices appointed in virtue of this act, by the justice making such commitment or taking such recognizance, on the first day of holding the county court of theiT county; and all sheriffs, clerks, and all other civil officers, shall execute and perform the same offices and duties, under the same penalties as they are now obliged by law to perform and execute them in the county courts as now established.XXXV. And,whereas the great convenience of trials of facts in the several counties of this state would be considerably increased by farther abridging the original jurisdiction of the general court; therefore, BeItEnacted,That from and after the first day of March next, no action of trespass for injury done to the person or personal property of the Plaintiff, replevin, del, covenant, account or on the case, shall be brought in the general court, unless the real debt or thing in demand, or damages assessed, exceeds the sum or
