SEC. 2. That all acts and part of acts, inconsistent with this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. JOHN F. MORSE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 8, 1851. Speaker of the Senate. AN ACT Prescribing the time of holding the Court of Common Pleas in the eighteenth SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Court of Common Pleas of the eighteenth Judicial Circuit, shall hereafter be held at the several times herein prescribed: In the county of Williams, on the first Tuesday in March, and the second Tuesday in September. In the county of Defiance, on the second Tuesday in Eighteenth March, the second Tuesday in June, and the third Tuesday Judicial in September. In the county of Paulding, on the third Tuesday in March, and the first Tuesday in September. In the county of Van Wert, on the fourth Tuesday in March, and the first Tuesday in October. In the county of Putnam, on the first Tuesday in April, the JOHN F. MORSE, Speaker of the Senate. Circuit. January 10, 1851. AN ACT Supplementary and amendatory to the act entitled an act fixing the times of holding the Courts of Common Pleas in the 18th Judicial Circuit, passed Jan uary 10, 1851. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the Court of Common Pleas shall be held in the county of Fulton, on the fourth Tuesday in April, and the fourth Tuesday in September; and the Fall term shall be held in the county of Henry, on the third Wednesday in November, instead of the first Monday in November, as provided in said act. SEC. 2. The Spring term of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Defiance, shall be held on the fifth Tuesday of April. SEC. 3. The Spring term of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Allen, shall be held on the third Monday of April, and in the county of Auglaize, on the fourth Monday of April. SEC. 4. That so much of the acts passed prescribing the times of holding Courts of Common Pleas in the 18th and 16th Judicial Circuits, as conflicts with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. JOHN F. MORSE, Speaker of the Senate. March 4, 1851. Nineteenth AN ACT. Fixing the times of holding Courts in the nineteenth Judicial Circuit. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the courts of common pleas shall hereafter be held in the several counties of the nineteenth judicial circuit, as follows, viz: In the county of Morrow, on the fourth Monday in April, first Monday in July, and fourth Monday of September. In the county of Coshocton, on the third Monday of March, third Monday of June, third Wednesday of October. In the county of Richland, on the fifth Monday of March, third Monday of August, fourth Monday of November. In the county of Knox, on the first Monday of May, fourth Monday in July, and fourth Monday of October. SEC. 2. If any writs of summons, subpoenas, executions, or writs of any kind whatever, have been issued in any of the counties named in the first section of this act, and made returnable on the first day of any term which may be changed by this act, the same are hereby made returnable on the first day of the terms herein specified, and shall be held as valid in law as if originally made returnable on the days prescribed in this act; and in all cases where sufficient time shall not intervene between the issuing of any writ and the first day of the term of court in said county, for the due execution thereof, the same may be returned on any day du ring the term to which said writ was returnable, and shall in all cases be held valid in law. SEC. 3. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker of the Senate. January 22, 1851. AN ACT To create the twentieth Judicial Circuit. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That from and after the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, the county of Montgomery shall be a Judicial Circuit, known and designated as the Twentieth Judicial Circuit, in the State of Ohio; wherein the Courts of Common Pleas shall be held and conducted as in other Judicial Circuits in the State of Ohio. JOHN F. MORSE, March 4, 1851. AN ACT Fixing the time of holding the Court of Common Pleas in the twentieth Ju dicial Circuit. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Twentieth JuOhio, That the Court of Common Pleas in the twentieth Ju- dicial Circuit. dicial Circuit, shall hereafter hold its terms at the following times, to wit: The first term shall commence on the third Tuesday in April of each year. The second term shall commence on the second Tuesday in August of each year, and the third term shall commence on the first Tuesday of November, in each year. JOHN F. MORSE, Speaker of the Senate. March 21, 1851. Fulton county AN ACT To attach the county of Fulton to the eighteenth Judicial Circuit. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the county of Fulton, now in the thirteenth Judicial Circuit, shall hereafter be attached to, and form part of the eighteenth Judicial Circuit. SEC. 2. That so much of the sixth section of the act passed February 28th, 1850, as attaches the county of Fulton to the thirteenth Judicial Circuit, is hereby repealed. JOHN F. MORSE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. January 10, 1851. Speaker of the Senate. Bank notes need not be particularly described, &c. General de notes suffi cient. AN ACT To amend the act entitled an act to regulate the practice of Judicial Courts. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That, in any suit now pending, or which may hereafter be instituted against any bank, or against any stockholder, shareholder, officer, or agent of any bank, whether authorized or unauthorized by law, and whether the charter of such bank, in case such bank were ever incorporated, has expired or not, upon the bank bills or notes of such bank, authorized or unauthorized, it shall not be required, for the sufficiency of the pleadings in such action, that the plaintiff's declaration shall contain a separate count on each bank bill or note; but such bank bills or notes may be given in evidence under any count of the declaration containing the allegation that the plaintiff is the holder of sundry bank bills or notes, issued by such bank, amounting, in the whole, to a certain sum named in the declaration, without setting forth the date, denomination, or name of the payees, and other particulars of the contents of such bills or notes, or of any of them; and such bank bills or notes may also be given in evidence under the common counts, in the action of debt and assumpsit. SEC. 2. And, in case the defendant or defendants, in any scription of such action, shall require of the plaintiff a bill of the particulars of his demand, or a copy of the bills, notes, or papers which the plaintiff designs to offer in evidence, it shall be sufficient for the plaintiff, in order to entitle him to give such bills or notes, in evidence, to furnish the defendant or defendants, or to file in the cause in court, a writing, setting forth the amount of such bills or notes, of each denomination held by him, without giving a copy of each of such bills exhibited on or notes, or any further particulars thereof; Provided, that But must be any defendant or defendants in any such action, may at any demand of detime before or after the filing of the declaration, apply to the fendants. court in which the action is pending, or to the President Judge thereof, for an order requiring the plaintiff or plaintiffs to produce before the clerk of the court, at his office, at such time as the court or Judge may direct, for the inspection by the defendant or defendants, or any of them, of all the bills or notes upon which the plaintiff or plaintiffs seek to recover; and in case such plaintiff or plaintiff shall refuse to comply with such order, upon being duly notified thereof, he or they shall be precluded from recovering in such action upon all bills or notes not produced in pursuance of such order; Provided, however, that the court or Judge may, upon good cause shown, extend the time, or appoint another suitable time for such inspection of said bills or notes before the clerk, where the plaintiff or plaintiffs have been prevented from a compliance with such order as first made. SEC. 3. That any person residing in the State of Ohio, or any corporation or body politic, created by the laws thereof, Suits may be having any claim or demand against any corporation or commenced in body politic, enacted by the laws of any other Statè or Ter- this State a gainst foreign ritory of the United States, may commence suit at law, or corporations. file a bill in chancery, before any court in the State of Ohio, having jurisdiction of such claim or demand, for the recovery thereof, against such foreign corporation or body politic. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That such suit may be commenced before the proper court in any county of this State, how served in Summonswhere service of a writ of summons, in any action at law, such cases. or a subpoena in chancery, can be served on the President, or other chief officer, or any clerk, secretary, treasurer, director, or agent of such foreign corporation or body politic; and the return of such summons or subpoena by the sheriff of such county, "served," on such president, chief officer, clerk, secretary, treasurer, director or agent, shall be held to be good service; and thereupon said foreign corporation shall be considered to be in court, and may be prosecuted to final judgment or decree and execution, as on the like return of process against natural persons. JOHN F. MORSE, January 25, 1851. Speaker of the Senate. |