1822 - Edocs

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place of residence ;_ or if no such person be found* then
by setting- up a copy on some conspicuous place on the
tenement, in the warrant mentioned.
9. Be it further enacted, That, at anytime after such
warrant shall have been issued, it shall be lawful .for* the
justice issuing- the same, or any justice of the peace for
the county or corporation) or for the clerk of the county
court, to issue subpoenas for witnesses* requiringthem to
attend at the court house, before the justices, >a: the time
appointed asraforesaid, to give evidence on the trial.
Any subpoena so issued, shall be executed in the same
manner, and, to all intents and purposes, shall have the
same force and effect, as a subpoena issued according to
law , in a cause depending in a circuit court.
10. Be it further enacted, That, it shall be the-#uty of
the justices notified as aforesaid, and of the justices who
shall have issued the warrant, to attend at the court house
on the clay therein specified, for the purpose of holding a
court for the trial of the complaint aforesaid ; for which
purpose, such justices, or any two ot them, or» any two or
more justices of the county or corporation, as the case
may be, shall constitute a court. Such court shall be con-
sidered a court of record ;
they shall have power to issue
all proper process, to bring befoyfe them witnesses, or other
persons, whose attendance may be lawfully required by
them ; and they may adjourn from day to day, and from
time to time, until the trial shall be ended ; the sheriff,
sergeant or coronor, as the case may require, shall be attendant
upon them, and execute their orders ; and the
clerk of the county court, shall attend them, and shall record
their proceedings in the proper book, of his office,
and file away and preserve the complaint and warrant aforesaid,
with all other papers exhibited on the trial.
1 1. Be it further enacted, That, when the justices shall
have»so met, and forced a court, on„the day and at the
place aforesaid, if it shall appear to them that the defendant
l k as been duly Served with jjhe warrant, agreeable to
the requisitions of this act, they shall proceed, without
further pleadings in writing, to empannel a jury for the
trial of the complaint aforesaid; The jury shall be composed
of any twelve freeholders, to whom neither party
hath any legal exception; or, if a sufficient number of
such freeholders, to whom neither party hath any legal
excep^on, be not attending, the deficiency shall be made
up of bjfe-standers, being freeholders of the county or
corporation.
12. Be it further enacted. That, when the jury shall
have been so empannelled, they ,sh all bechargedon oath,
in the following manner; that is to say,
If the complaint be of a forcible entry, or of an unlaw-
ful entry, they shall be charged thus.
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