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1827 .- January 9, Jacob Carpenter and Fanny Norris ; January 10, Jacob Kester and Margaret Pierson ; January 16, Samuel Pad- dock and and Isabella Armstrong; January 25, William Gano and Mary Dawson; February 10, Miron H. Allen and Nancy Jackson; , February 12, Absolom Snoddy and Irena Jones; March 13, Benja- min McKeen and Leathey Paddock; March 30, Samuel Bentley and Elisabeth McDonald; April 5, Nelson Souls and Rebecca Sherman; David Smith and Mary Souls; May 8, Leonard York and Susanah Lenderman; May 9, Felix Evans and Elizabeth Perkins; May 19, Joseph Bennight and Sally Biddleman; June 4, Hugh Scott and Mary Lewis; June 5, David C. Creesey and Betsey Brumley ; John Johnson and Nancy Ferguson; June 8, Zachariah Beard and Dicy Forgason; June 21, Joseph Pucket and Zerish Mattock ; June 23, Abijah H. Hop- kins and Dicey Scott; June 26, Thomas Meeks and Betsy Smith ; July 11, Francis Brock and Agnes Bowles; August 1, Samuel H. Challace and Betsy Seering; August 6, Richard I. Trueblood and Jane Seward; August 8, Joseph Thompson and Louisa Yeager ; William Bentley and Lethy Staggs; August 20, Lee Ray and Elizabeth Crews ; September 8, James Saunders and Lucinda Lancaster, September 22, Lemuel Baker and Rachel Jessup; October 1, Nathan Hogue and Emeline Ray; October 6, Ezra M. Jones and Elizabeth Burget; October 9, William Hale and Mahala Barnett; October 10, James Perkins and Diadama Bruington; October 30, John Curry and Jane Jordan; October 31, Henry Ross and Mary Seeley; November 6, Gideon Foster and Martha Lemaster; November 17, Cyrus Edgerton and Roxana Wilson; November 19, David Swall and Nancy Moore; Slaven Samuel and Elinor Moore; December 3, George Ray and Jane Caldwell; December 15, Isam Pucket and Ede Gosnell; December 26, Thomas Williams and Anna Chenoweth.
1828 .- January 9, D. M. Jones and Mary Ann Snoddy, Jacob Walker and Mary Snodgrass; January 26, Charles Souls and Mary McLaflin ; January 28, Loyd B. Harris and Martha Snoddy; Janu- ary 29, John Knox and Jane Slaven; February 1, George W. Markle and Julia McIntire; Isaac Anderson and Mary Ann Mc-
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Daniel; February 4, Benj. Harris and Polly Siner; February 9, John Gosnell and Lucinda Garrett; February 12, James G. Gillespy and Elenor Caldwell; February 13, Jeremiah Raymond and Laura Browning; February 16, John Whitaker and Sarah Ann Cummins; William Whitaker and Elizabeth Taylor; March 3, David Smith and Nancy Noel, Jesse Cheasle and Susan Gibson; March 10, Isiah Lewis, Jr., and Mary Smith; March 19, John Strader and Polly Hodge; March 20, Samuel Graves and Mary Mann; March 22, Thomas Chapman and Betsey Wood; March 26, Joel F. Martin and Elizabeth Clemens; March 29, William Scully and Almy Evans; April 15, Camma Gregory and Rachel Barnett; April 26, John Balding and Lydia Ann Bowen; June 4, Dove Arnold and Catharine Reed; July 9, William Hamilton and Gulielema Bailey; August 27, Carlton Belt and Chloe Allen; September 1, William Strain and Rosanna Seymour; September 27, Samuel McIntire and Mary Ann Ratliff; October 23, William Fenimore and Margaret Gordon; October 27, Edward Woolen and Anna Brown; October 28, Simon Andrew Peters and Susanna Barton; November 3, George Ferrill and Mary Harris; Hiram Sparks and Laura Tychenor; November 11, Thomas Manchester and Charity McCuen; November 17, Michael Shipley and Parthena Smith, William Furguson and Frances Barnett; November 26, John Sumpter and Mary Hall; November 29, Britton M. Harrison and Adaline Allen; December 16, Jonathan Carter and Elizabeth Rogers; December 18, Jeremiah Hayworth and Lavina Campbell; December 20, Joseph Cox and Phebe Conaway; Decem- ber 30, Thomas Durham and Jane Clem.
1829 .- January 1, Strother Bridewell and Sophena Wallace; January 2, Oliver M. Heacox and Elizabeth Thompkins; January 6, Daniel Durham and Eliza Watt; January 10, William Lathy and Anne Lundrum; January 20, David Kirsey and Susan Daniels ; January 26, Harrison Elliott and Polly Barbree; January 30, David Canada and Rebecca Wilkinson; February 7, Horatio Baker and Jane Jessup; February 12, Lewis Redford and Elizabeth Ann Herrington; February 18, Meritt Adams and Rebecca Nevans; February 24, Moses Chandler and Matilda Johnson; March 21, Aaron Hatfield and Sarah Price; March 30, William Woolen and Polly Mattox; April 2, Joseph East and Sarah Himrod; April 3, John S. Burget and Elizabeth Weston; April 10, John Amomon and Sarah Grant; Arrow McDaniel and Polly Field; April 25, Samuel E. Carpenter and Elizabeth Mattox; April 29, William McMullen and Mary Nevans; May 5, Elijah Dean and Malinda Combs; May 7, James Dickson and Lydia Hyde; May 18, Joshua Crow and Elizabeth Wilson; June 2, Burwell Bassett and Elizabeth Field; June 5, Rufus Boyll and Catharine Carr; June 12, James Field and Margaret McDonald; June 25, Joseph Sutton and Ange-
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line Mathews; July 10, Josiah Richardson and Sarah Sutton; July 21, John L. Graham and Mahala Combs; July 23, Isaiah Wilson and Sarah Meeks; August 3, Samuel Robertson and Mary Woolen; August 4, Reuben Bramlet and Casander Hughstead; August 13, James Barnett and Mary Paine; August 25, George W. Smith and Eliza Bowlen; September 7, John Chesnut and Martha Durham; September 23, Calvin Thompson and Margaret Thompson; Septem- ber 26, John Sailes and Sallie Hughstead; October 13, Joseph Miller and Margaret Hickson; October 14, George W. Markle and Hannah E. Hickox; October 16, James Bennett and Margaret Pettit; October 21, Jehu Gosnell and Jane Leek; October 22, Ephraim L. Higgins and Rosella Nichols; October 24, Septer Pat- rick and Sally Ann Ross; October 28, William Dudley and Susan Dancey; November 4, Richard Skippeth and Amy Spangler; No- vember 25, Benj. Bushnel and Eliza Ann Beaty; December 4, John Westfall and Margaret Lambert; December 7, Peter Brock and Martha Cummins; December 16, Thomas D. Berry and Emily Bar- nett; December 19, Handy Hudson and Theresa Lemaster; Decem- ber 21, Richard Brock and Anna Maynard; December 22, Ira Coltrin and Siddy Benjamin ; Jefferson Benjamin and Lunday Booth ; December 23, Solomon C. Smith and Mary Langdon; December 24, George Conn and Harriett Allen; December 30, Isaac Worth and Mary Barnes.
1830 .- January 11, William Beacham and Easter Beacham; January 9, Nelson Markle and Matilda A. Bennett; Nathan Redfield and Frances Nort; January 11, William James and Barbara Dancey ; William Dancey and Patsey James; January 12, Daniel Reeves and Eliza Souls; January 18, Jamison Leeper and Eliza Sankey; January 19, Caleb Wilson and Maria Loveless; January 25, Rich- ard F. Wright and Rachel Paddock, William Shattuck and Debora Robbins; February 9, James H. Neeley and Nancy Lee; Beverly Walker and Sally Sheets; February 13, Vincent Yeager and Sally Pietz; February 15, Ebenezer Paddock and Amanda M. Shattuck; February 27, Joel Tryon and Rachel Ringo; March 1, James Drake and Polly Pierson ; March 13, Charles E. Bentley and Mary Jones; March 17, Henry Messer and Susan Barry; John McCune and Amanda Wood; March 20, Stephen G. Burnett and Anny Scully; March 26, Joseph T. Liston and Sarah Welch; March 27, Joshua Gosnell and Catharine Medow; April 2, John Hamilton, Jr., and Lavina Scott; April 13, Joseph Smith and Rebecca McMullen; April 16, William Hall and Julia Ann Neille; April 17, Ebenezer Payne and Sally Mckean; May 12, James U. Notherly and Clarinda Kite; John Kilbourne and Catharine Ray; May 13, John Briggs and Sally Mounts; May 15, Joseph Thayre and Abigail Hamilton; May 18, George B. Bennett and Martha Tucker; May 21, Henry
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M. Wilson and Axcyasnn Lancaster; May 26, Andrew Roads and Anna Medaugh; May 31, James Anderson and Phebe McGlane; June 1, Jonathan E. Green and Sarah Pittingill; Thomas H. Blake and Sarah Linton; June 8, Jonathan Frakes and Sarah Frakes; June 18, John Thompson and Eliza Yeager; July 6, Stephen Bias and Mary Hall; July 8, William White and Eliza Houge; July 12, James King and Elizabeth Washburn; July 15, Benjamin Reed and Margaret Reed; July 21, Michael Price and Catharine Mann; July 27, John Britton and Catharine Croy; August 2, David Robertson and Harriett Perry; Joseph W. Denton and Anna Miller; August 11, William Bayless and Elizabeth Nelson; August 12, James Mer- iweather and Mary Eversole; Amos Rice and Sarah Compton; Au- gust 24, Nathan Cote and Abigail Warren; August 25, Benjamin Daw- son and Sarah Elliott; September 9, Elias Reeves and Rachel H. Hammell; September 15, James Weston and Anna Norris; Septem- ber 22, Hugh Shepherd and Susan Adams; Gabril Durham and Mar- tha S. Thornton; September 23, Greenbury T. Riggs and Nancy Stanley; September 25, Thomas Wilgis and Elizabeth Graham; October 5, Jonas Reeves and Martha King; October 8, Thomas Jones and Celia Baty ; October 15, Paul Evans and Nancy Bates; Oc- tober 22, James Siner and Sarah Waggoner; November 2, William Durham and Rebecca Dickson; Thomas Ferrel and Sarah Joslin; November 3, Isaac Williams and Margarett Whaley; November 15, William Blocksaw and Edney Atkinson; November 20, John Taylor and Susan Trueblood; November 24, William Green and Martha Woolen; December 6, William Thompson and Deborah Morgan; De- cember 7, Thomas Black and Lavina Dudley; William Black and Sarah W. Dudley; William G. Dudley and Levisa Ann Ashmore; December 16, William McMorrow and Elizabeth Hodge; December 21, John McKee, Jr., and Lucinda Shull; John Wilkes and Eliza- beth Fields.
1831 .- January 6, John Coleman and Sally Lambert; January 10, George Kelly and Sarah Staten; January 13, William P. Ben- nett and Eliza Haynes; January 14, Levi Dodson and Elizabeth Norris; January 15, Thomas Pound and Nancy Carr; January 17, Abraham Finch and Sylvania Harden; January 28, William Saun- ders and Susan Lancaster; February 7, Humphrey S. French and Julia A. Browning; John Ellis and Barbara Miller: February 8, Thomas Green and Hetty Brown; February 16, Thomas Owen and Sophia Isaac; February 19, Owen Sparks and Lucinda Osborn ; John J. Mundle and Elizabeth Kerchival; March 1, Berkley Wat- son and Sarah Woolen; March 8, Almeron Compton and Nancy Ferrel; March 11, John Smith and Hannah Wood; March 21, An- thony Smith and Hannah Sparks; March 28, Daniel Stark and Patience Welch; March 29, James Bissex and Sarah Jaques;
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March 30, Elijah Whitaker and Rachel Taylor; April 2, Enoch Har- lan and Catharine Pope; April 5, George Biggs and Nancy Ann Tay- lor; April 6, William Logan and Sally Kuykendall; April 11, Benja- min Aler and Maria Stewart; April 12, Jeremiah Blocksom and Nancy Atkinson; Ephraim Sparks and Elizabeth Pound; April 18, James M. Wallace and Eliza Dulan; April 21, Shadrach Pointer and Emily Smith; April 28, Walter Malcom and Margaret Thompson; May 5, Charles Taukersley and Jane Lattee; May 18, Absalom Harden and Delia Ashcroft; May 19, John Lane and Betsey Kirby ; May 21, James S. Smith and Cyrena Cox; May 23, Samuel W. Angier and Hannah Angier; June 1, Joseph J. Allison and Re- becca Cowan; June 4, Daniel Sink and Maria Oldfitch; June 9, John L. Monelle and Rosanna Dilby; June 11, William T. Perkins and Elizabeth Ray; June 18, Samuel Milligan and Malinda Daw- son; July 4, Samuel McCollester and Mary Downey; July 5, Jacob Taylor and Elenor Whitaker; July 16, John L. Monelle and Mary Sumpter; July 27, George Hoaks and Sarah Arthur; July 28, Michael Maun and Hetty Price. August 1, John K. Watts and Dicey Paddock, Samuel Utter and Mary Duggins; August 13, Dominicus A. Allen and Catharine Taylor; August 24, Samuel Moore and Edy Kirby; September 1, Henry Drummond and Hester Wells; September 3, Lemuel Carpenter and Susan Hart; September 9, Jefferson Bennett and Cynthia Hart; September 13, David Thornburg and Elizabeth Lenderman; September 4, K. B. Perry and Asenath F. McCowan; September 17, Gabriel Wilson and Hannah Barrett; September 20, John Sutton and Han- nah Holdaway; September 17, Robert Curry and Jane Thompson, Joshua Shotwell and Jane Black; September 18, Harbert Ferguson and Elizabeth Barnes; November 8, Warren Harper and Catharine McCabe; November 19, Henry Souls and Jane Ingraham; Novem- ber 21, Simpson Starke and Elizabeth Liston; November 23, Jere- miah Crabb and Susanna Powers; November 29, Milton Hern and Eliza Jane Tucker; December 3, James Shields and Martha Kirby; December 6, Levi Scott and Mahala Liston; December 7, Horatio N. Manning and Pauline Hodge, William R. Denny and Milcha S. Browning; December 10, Isaac M. Dawson and Rachel Belt; An- thony M. Ostrander and Lucinda Lyons; December 20, Samuel May and Mary Havens ; Addison Dayton and Emily Bilderman; De- cember 24, John V. Pope and Margaret Haywoth; December 27, Samuel Crawfor and Eliza Cunningham; December 24, Eli Russell and Harriet Eliza Mills; December 31, Lorin L. Burget and Han- nah Coltrin.
1832 .- January 4, Isaac T. Whitaker and Nancy Taylor; Janu- ary 5, James Hussey and Athey Stewart; January 10; George Brocks and Leanah Thomas; January 19, Horace Blinn and Julia
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Bishop; January 21, Joel Jackson and Mary Donnelly; January 23, James Lemaster and Emily Denton; January 25, Joel Reeves and Maria Ellingsworth; January 28, John N. Jones and Adaline Beau- mont; January 30, Ashley Harris and Sarah Boswell; February 18, Septer P. Camach and Mary Hotchkiss; February 20, Hezekiah Ballat and Mary Barnes ; February 27, John Long and Melinda Kuy- kendall; February 29, Wylie Walden and Sarah Wilson; March 2, Mathias Rice and Jane Simmons; March 6, James Taylor and Nancy Paddock; March 13, Joseph Burnham and Sally Ann Ireland; March 15, Jacob Jones and Arbella Williams; March 20, David Cox and Mary Pope; March 25, Seaborn Barbara and Isbel Mc- Glone; March 28, Thomas Trueblood and Nancy Mattox; April 2, Elisha Olney and Charlotte Anderson; April 21, Elisha Gilbert and Eleanor Ferrel; John Norman and Elizabeth McLin; May 1, Robert McCullock and Margaret Eagleton; Chauncey Warren and Frances Ann Modesitt; May 7, Amos Rice and Sarah Howard; May 11, Clark S. Tuttle and Harriet M. Sweany; May 14, David Noel and Sally Peters; Harvey Rea and Elizabeth Walker; May 17, Will- iam Ellingsworth and Elizabeth Conner; May 31, Jacob Welch and Milly Goslin; June 1, Azaria Casto and Maria C. Franklin; June 4, Andrew Nevins and Elizabeth McKee; June 5, Jared Belt and Mary Saxton; June 13, Simon Winchinn and Mary Winchinn; June 21, John Ray and Rebecca Gallaher; June 27, Jonathan Smith and Polly Mattherly ; June 30, William Merriman and Maranda Jane Mc- Collister; July 12, John Franklin and Sophia Ewing; July 21, Francis Baxter and Sarah Pickings; August 4, William Sutton and Elizabeth Devore; August 6, Silas Tychenor and Littisha Sparks ; August 15, Ruphus Brown and Nancy Tillotson; Lewis Creal and Nancy Messer; August 22, Christopher Stark and Polly Akers; August 24, Thomas Houghton and Sally Riddle; August 29, Isaac Cotteral and Margaret Stewart; September 19, John Cox and Ar- cadia Musgrove; October 6, Asher Hunt and Abigail Foster; Octo- ber 8, James Carruthers and Isabella Ireland; October 9, Jere- miah Hayworth and Elenor McDaniel; October 15, Asa Kemp and Jensy Jewell; October 18, John Butler and Margaret Chunk- wilder; October 26, John Winter and Mary Montgomery; Novem- ber 5, George Smith, Jr., and Mary Campbell; November 14, Rob- ert Jackson and Nancy Hull; November 22, Charles Haines and Maria S. Harris; November 26, James Mathews and Matilda Baty ; November 28, Isaiah Noel and Eliza Treat; December 4, James Caton and Eliza Jane Simmonds ; December 15, Jesse Carmody and Rachel Smith; December 18, Lewis Depee and Delilah Clark; De- cember 21, Isaac Hawk and Matilda Goldsby; December 25, James Smith and Artamissa Edwards.
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CHAPTER XXIII.
EARLY LAW-MAKING.
I NDIANA became a separate and defined Territory in 1800. To organize the machinery of the new Territory and enact a code of laws for its government was neither a small nor an unimportant part of the work for her people to do. A convention of the repre- sentative men and then a legislature to enact laws was one of the first requisites. Hence the statute laws governing the entire Terri- tory which was all then the three counties that covered what is now Indiana and Illinois, commenced with this century.
The statesmen of that day commenced building from the founda- tion, and the story of the growth of our system, the law of the land and the judiciary, is an essential part of the history of the country and of our people. It is as instructive, if not really more so, than any other part of our history. From the law-making and executing department of government is the powerful influence as strong in shaping our civilization as perhaps all other things com- bined.
The first law-making body in a Territory in those days was the governor, and the three members of the Supreme Court, all ap- pointed. These gentlemen would meet, and in two or three days enact the few measures that in their judgment the people required. They would provide for local officers in designated districts, and also for future elections for certain local authorities. Nothing could be simpler or less complex than were these first steps in the formative days of the new government. It would be when the legislature met in the advance grade of the Territory that the first cumbrous and complex enactment would arise which always fol- lowed after the general government in adopting nearly entire the Common Law of England.
You may imagine about how plain and simple the following would be to the average ancient, simple-minded pioneer, who knew more about fighting Indians, hunting deer and catching coons than he did about what Blackstone has called the "garnered wisdom of the fathers." The following was enacted in this as it was in nearly all the new Territories: "Common Law of England and all statutes made in aid thereof, prior to the 4th Jac. 1st except 2 § 6 C. 43. Eliz. 8 C. 13. Eliz. and 9 C. 37 H. 8 .- not local, with statutes of Territory, rule of decission, shall be the law of the Territory."
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This brief paragraph meant a great deal, and even the children in the wild west were "presumed to understand," not only the above, but all of its tremendous implication, and they had to shape their conduct accordingly, even to the "rule in Shelly's case," as well as the subtle lines running in " a distinction without a differ- ence, and a difference without a distinction."
Here are the footprints of those good old times-many cent- uries ago in the Old World, when the earth's greatest and wisest met in august councils over such practical and important questions of "which was the eldest, the father or the son," or when long and bloody wars followed the earnest, but vain efforts of the wise to settle the question of "how many angels could sit on the point of a cambric needle." When such natural questions arose among an intensely earnest people that had to be settled in some way, the sword and the faggot were the only things that could do it, it seems. Men then were mightily in earnest, and it is fortunate that we of this day did not live then and run the elections, because we have come to be too indifferent on many of those subjects that were so effectively argued out some centuries ago by men who seemed to understand what they were trying to do.
In 1807 a revised code of the Indiana laws was published by John R. Jones and John Johnson. This revision had already become a necessity, it seems, from the conflict of so many acts referring to the same subject matter. This was adopted by the legislature of 1807, and "all former ones (acts) repealed." But after another eight years the same confusion, it seems, again arose, and General W. Johnston (named for General Washington and not for George) published, from the printing office of Elihu Stout, Vin- cennes, "A Compend of The Acts of Indiana." This is now one of the earliest law publications of Indiana extant. It is the laws from 1807 to 1814, inclusive, and is dated at " Vincennes, I. T., October, 1815." Some idea of the work, as well as of General W. Johnston, Esq., is to be found in the quaint and explanatory preface, which is addressed to
" The Citizens of Indiana."
"Prolix prefaces and vaunting assurances do not at all times give an insight into the work, any more than gaudy plumage dis- covers the viand of the bird-indeed, we often find sweet and nour- ishing meat under homely feathers; and in many works which have but short prefaces, we found ample matter to instruct us.
"In the Compend I have been as laconic as practicable-and to render my work servicable and acceptable I have spared no pains to analize the Territorial Statutes, commencing with the revised code in 1807 and ending with the acts of 1814. And to methodize the matter in the plainest manner has been my aim.
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"The complicated state in which the Statutes of our Territory are at present, from the variety of acts upon the same subject, suggested to me the necessity of an analysis. To be of some service to my country, and not pecuniary reward, has been my excitement."
This is the most admirable "preface" ever penned. On opening the curious little old yellowed volume and reading General W. Johnston's "To the Citizens of Indiana," I confess that nothing could restrain me from the most careful perusal of the whole.
On the next page is a certificate signed by Isaac Blackford, Davis Floyd, G. R. C. Sullivan, A. Buckner, H. Hurst, W. Prince and John Johnson, certifying they had examined the manuscript and "we give it as our opinion that the design is well conceived and the subject matter disposed of in considerable order."
General W. Johnston, in his "Introduction " further explains :
" The Acts of a general nature are desected and arranged in alphabetical order, with much integrity and all the ingenity at the controle of the author." * *
" The malitia law of 1813-14 is the only act of a public nature which has been omitted to be analysed and brought into the Com- pend. The author's reasons for this omission were, that any attempt to systematize the Act would be confused, and his notes have been too prolix."
From this "Compend " we learn that the first general court established was called the court of common pleas, but the act making it a general court (all jurisdiction, it is inferred) was repealed in 1807. That year appeals were allowed from "the c. p. to the gen. court." (Frequently the courts are referred to as the c. p. and the g. c. )
After the term of the legislature of 1813 each county, as well as the new counties to be formed, was to have a member of the legislature.
In 1807 "notes for the payment of money " were made assignable by endorsement.
Burglary was to "be whipped with thirty-nine lashes, and give security for good conduct for three years;" bigamy " whipped from one to 300 lashes and rendered infamous;" " disobedient children may be punished on application to justice peace." The whip- ping post was the handy instrument for the punishment of those smaller crimes. "Three hundred lashes and rendered forever infamous " may not seem like much to read of now, but after all it was pretty severe.
A list of the " free male inhabitants was required to be made by the listers of taxable property " in 1813.
The common pleas court was to be formed by three judges, acts 1807. This court had limited jurisdiction, and was to hold six
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terms a year. No jurisdiction in cases of "life or imprisonment for more than one year." In the States what was then the court of common pleas became the county commissioners, with jurisdiction limited to the business affairs of the county.
" The former C. C. (circuit court), as a branch of the general court, had power to try issues made up at bar, and issue execu- tion; fine delinquent jurors, and had exclusive cognizance of divorce cases. But all original jurisdiction is arrested from the general court, and this court as a branch abolished," laws 1814.
The county business was taken from "c. p." and given to the associate judges in 1814; governor to appoint during good behavior three associate judges in each county. By this act the " circuit and associate judges to hold a Court in each county and perform all the duties formerly exercised by c. p., c. c. or chancery."
Some of the Latin words and abbreviations are instructive: The plural of dedimus is "dedimus's; " recog. for recognisance; gov., a little irreverent, but hits the old man nicely; c. c. and c. gen., cir and ass. judges; "the c. p. shall issue spas to another Co." and "the judge in vaca;" "'till court in course ;" "grant ad quad dam;" "the sh'ff;" "to lease thro' trustees;" "fi fa to shff;" "the body shall not be taken in exon;" the character "&" is of frequent use; "a copy of the Admon bond " * * and but one " imparl allowed." " The jury shall take the whole evidence and decide according to the equity and justice of the cause."
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