§ 29. The causes of action, of which this court shall have cognisance, are libel, slander, malicious prosecutions, breach of promise of marriage, assault, battery, false imprisonment, and personal violence of any kind. § 30. At the time specified in the notice or at such other time as the hearing may be adjourned to by the court, the parties appearing shall be received by the judge, apart from all other persons except as is provided in section 39, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the judge to hear the allegations and explanations of the parties, to inform them of their respective rights, and to endeavor to reconcile their differences. § 31. Parties may voluntarily appear before such court, without notice, and such appearance shall be as effectual as if notice had been previously served. § 32. If a reconciliation be had, a memorandum thereof, stating the nature of the controversy or alleged cause of action, the appearance of the parties, and the fact of the reconciliation, without specifying the terms thereof, unless it shall be agreed by the parties to specify them, shall be entered in a book of records to be kept by the judge, and such entry shall be signed by the respective parties. The reconciliation thus effected shall be the final determination of the matter in controversy. § 33. If the parties agree to a judgment in favor of one against the other, in settlement of their differ ences, the judge may make at the foot of the entry of reconciliation, a memorandum, stating the judgment agreed upon. A transcript of such memorandum, certified by the judge, may be filed in the office of the county clerk, and shall thereupon have the same effect and may be enforced in the same manner as the judgment of a county court. § 34. If instead of a reconciliation the terms of which are settled between the parties, they voluntarily submit their matters in difference to the court, and agree to abide the judgment, or assent thereto, in the presence of the court, such submission and agreement or assent shall be entered in the book of records, and signed by the respective parties, and thereupon the judgment of the court, made pursuant to the submission, shall have the same effect, and may be enforced in the same manner, as the judgment mentioned in section 33. § 35. If after service of the notice prescribed in section 27 of this act, either party fail to appear, or if the parties appearing be not reconciled as mentioned in sections 32 and 33, or do not enter into the submission and agreement mentioned in section 34, it shall be the duty of the judge to make an entry in his book of records, stating in a summary manner the nature of the charge, the notice given, and the proof of service thereof, the failure to appear of either party, or the appearance of the parties, and their failure to be reconciled. § 36. The entries in such book of records, or certified copies thereof, signed by the judge, shall be evidence of the facts therein stated; and it shall be the duty of the judge to give a transcript of the entries in any case, certified by him, from his records, to either party on request. § 37. In any action hereafter brought for the recovery of damages, for a cause of action mentioned in section 29, the plaintiff shall not recover costs, unless he shall at the trial produce the certified copy mentioned in the last section, and unless it shall thereby appear that the notice was duly served, and that he appeared pursuant thereto, or that both the parties appeared without notice, as mentioned in section 31. The defendant shall not be entitled to recover costs in such action, when it shall appear that after service of the notice, he failed to appear pursuant thereto. § 38. If, however, the case be one requiring a provisional remedy, and of such urgency, as not to justify the delary arising from a previous notice to appear before the court of conciliation, the action may be commenced, without such appearance or notice, and if the plaintiff afterwards give the notice, and appear before the court of conciliation pursuant thereto, he may recover costs accruing subsequent to such appearance. § 39. When an infant or a woman is a party to a proceeding before the court of conciliation, such infant or woman may be attended by the guardian, or husband, of such party, or if there be none, then by some friend approved by the court. § 40. In an action between partners, or between principal and agent, neither party shall recover costs, unless he make it appear to the court, that previous to his complaint or answer, he made an offer in writing to his adversary, to submit the matter in difference between them to arbitration, as in the next section prescribed, or that the case was one requiring a provisional remedy, and of such urgency as not to justify the delay arising from such offer. § 41. The arbitrators required by the last section shall be three competent and disinterested persons, one to be chosen by each party, and the third to be either chosen by those two, or by the judge of the court of conciliation of the county. § 42. It shall be the duty of the judge of the court of conciliation, so far as may be compatible with his duties as judge, to give to every person, who may ask it, advice respecting his differences with another. § 43. No party to any admission or declaration, made before the court of conciliation, shall be bound thereby or be responsible therefor, in any other judicial proceeding whatever, excepting as herein above provided. |