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of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and the Bonds shall be registered in the Colonial Secre— tary’s office on the oath of' a subscribing witness, and when such bonds are lost, certified copies shall be receivable in evidence, in any Court of Law or Equity in this Island. .» IX. Any person injured by any act or omission of any Sheriff, may sue on his bond, in the name of the Queen, and be entitled to the proceeds, with costs The defendant shall be entitled to costs if judgment be given in his favor; but no action shall be brought upon the bond, until judgment shall first have been re- covered against the Sheriff.

X. All actions against Sheriffs must be brought within three years from the accruing thereof.

XI. In the event of the illness, absence, in- ability, incapacity, or sickness of any Justice or Justices of the Supreme Court, any one Judge may lawfully do and perform any act, matter or thing, hereby required to be done by the Chief Justice and Assistant Justice.

XII. Nothing in this Act contained, shall affect or be held to affect the present Sheriffs of the several Counties in this Island, or either of them, or any act done or to be done by them, under the Act or parts of Acts hereby repealed ; but they and he shall have the same powers and authorities, under said Act or parts of Acts, as they or he would have bad if this Act had not been passed.

An Act relating to the Terms of, and proceed- ings in, the Supreme Court of this Island. [Passed April 19, 1869.]

* HEREAS there is no provision in any Act of the General Assembly of this

Island for the continuance of any term of the Supreme Court to complete the hearing of any suit entered upon, after the expiration of the days limited for the term, and the postpone- ment and rehearing of such suit are attended with great expense and delay to jurors, wit- nesses and suitors : Be it therefore enacted, by the Administrator of the Government, Council and Assembly, That whenever the days limited by law, or by direction of the Court, for the continuance of any term ofthe Supreme Court,— shall have elapsed before a suit, the hearing of which shall have been entered upon, has been fully heard and determined, the term, at which such suit shall have been so entered upon shall, be further continued and extended until such

suit is fully heard and determined, and such further continuance shall be construed and taken to be part and parcel of such term.

II. That, when the Saturday immediately preceding the day appointed by statute for hold— ing a term of the Supreme Court, in any other County, shall have arrived before the deter- mination of such suit, the presiding Judge shall adjourn the said Court and the further hearing of such suit until some convenient day, which shall be as soon as may be after the ex. piration of said Term in such other County, to be named by him at the time of such adjourn- ment, and entered on the minutes of the Court, and the said presiding Judge, Jurors sworn to try such cause, the Parties, their Attorneys, Counsel and Witnesses, together with the Sheriff and other officers of the Court, shall take notice of such adjournment, without fur- ther process or notice, and such jurors, wit: nesses, Sheriffs and officers of the Court shall be bound to attend and reassemble at the County Court House on the day to which the said Court shall have been adjourned as afore- said, and, in default of such attendance, shall be punished as for contempt, in such manner as the said presiding Judge may order and direct; provided always, that, if, by the time limited for holding the term of 'the Supreme V Court, it shall be found inconvenient to hell such adjournment after the first term succeed— ing the term at which such suit shall have been entered upon, the presiding Judge shall ad- journ the Court and hearing of such cause until some convenient day, as soon as may be, after the termination of the second term of the Supreme Court after such term from which the cane may have been adjourned.

III. Upon the assembling of the said Court, pursuant to such adjournment, the Court shall resume the further hearing and determination of such suit in the like manner as in case of adjournment of the hearing ofa cause from day to day in term, and such adjourned sitting shall be taken, for the purposes of such suit, to be part and parcel of the term in which the said Court first commenced the hearing of the said cause.

IV. At the expiration of four days, after a verdict shall have been given at any such adjournment sitting, it shall be lawful for the party for whom such verdict shall have been given, to enter up judgment in the cause, uno less the opposing party, or his agent, counsel