Chap. 0400 An Act to abolish the police court of Gloucester and to establish the district court of eastern essex.

Be it enacted, etc., as folloivs:
Section 1. The police court of Gloucester is hereby abolished.
Section 2. A court is hereby established in Gloucester, under the name of the District Court of Eastern Essex, and the district and territory now included in Gloucester, Rockport and Essex shall constitute a judicial district under the jurisdiction of said court.
Section 3. Said court shall have a proper seal, and shall have the same civil and criminal jurisdiction in all respects as that heretofore possessed by the police court of Gloucester.
Section 4. All civil and criminal cases and proceedings pending in or returnable to said police court of Gloucester when this act takes full effect shall be transferred to or returned into said district court of eastern Essex, which shall thereafter have jurisdiction thereof.
Section 5. There shall be one justice and two special justices and a clerk of said court, appointed in the manner and with the tenure of office respectively provided in the case of justices and clerks of other district courts. All
the provisions of law applicable in common to other district courts shall be applicable to said court.
Section 6. The salary of the justice of said court shall be eighteen hundred dollars a year, and the salary of the clerk therof shall be one thousand dollars a year.
Section 7. The records of said police court of Gloucester shall remain in the custody of the clerk of said district court of eastern Essex.
Section 8. This act shall take effect upon its passage so far as it provides for appointing, commissioning and qualifying the justice and special justices and clerk of the court hereby established, and shall take full effect on the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred.
Approved June 26, 1000.