Chap. 0011 An Act to alter the times of holding the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and Court of Sessions, within and for the county of Penobscot.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by

the authority of the same, That the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and Court of Sessions, within and for the county of Penobscot, shall, from and after the time this act shall he in force, be holden at Bangor, within; and for the said county, on the first Monday of January, on the second Monday of May, and on the third Monday of September annually, instead of the times now appointed by law, for holding said Courts.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall have full force and effect, from and after the twentieth day of July next, and not before ; and all writs, recognizances, warrants, complaints and every other process, precept, matter and thing, returnable to said Courts on the second Tuesday of November next, and all parties and persons that have been or may be required or directed to appear and attend at the time or term last mentioned, and all actions, indictments, suits, informations, appeals, matters and things, which shall or may be pending in said Courts, or either of them in said county, on the said twentieth day of July next, shall be returned to, entered, appear and attend, have day, be heard, tried and determined in the said Courts, respectively, at the term thereof, appointed by this act, to be holden on the third Monday of September next.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all acts and parts or clauses of acts, which are or may be repugnant to, or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, from and after the said twentieth day of July next: Provided however, that any thing done pursuant to those acts or clauses thereof, prior to the day last mentioned, shall be as good and valid in law to all intents and purposes, as if this act were never passed: And provided moreover, that the Session busiuess cognizable by said Court, in conjunction with the Sessions Justices thereof, have day, be done, and performed, only at the aforementioned terms in January and September annually, and not at the May term before expressed.

[Approved by the Governor, June 13, 1817-3