Chap. 0193 An Act to establish the second district court of essex.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The towns of Amesbury and Merrimac shall constitute a judicial district under the jurisdiction of a court to be called the Second District Court of Essex. Said court shall be held in the town of Amesbury.
Section 2. There shall be one justice and two special justices of said court appointed in the manner and with the tenure of office provided in the cases of justices of district courts. All the provisions of law applicable in common to police and district courts shall be applicable to said court.
Section 3. The said court shall be held daily except on Sundays and legal holidays for criminal business, and the return days for writs in civil actions shall be such days as shall be provided for by the rules of said court.
Section 4. The justice of said court shall receive from the county of Essex an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars.
Section 5. When one of several defendants resides within said district the writ issued by said court may run into any county and be served on the other defendant or defendants fourteen days at least before its return day in like maimer as if issued by the superior court.
Section 6.   Said court shall have a seal.
Section 7. The first session of said court shall be held on the first Tuesday of May in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; but nothing herein shall affect any suit or other proceeding begun prior to said lirst Tuesday of May.
Section 8.   This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved April 4, 1888.