NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 760

HOUSE BILL 1012

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-70 RELATING TO THE TERMS OF SUPERIOR COURT IN PERQUIMANS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. That portion of G. S. 7-70, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, which fixes the terms of Superior Court to be held in Perquimans County is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Perquimans - The fifth Monday before the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the first Monday after the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the sixth Monday after the first Monday in March; the eighth Monday after the first Monday in September."

Sec. 2. That portion of G. S. 7-70, as the same appears in the 1957 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, which authorizes the Chief Justice to assign the judge holding the courts of the first judicial district to hold terms of court on certain specified weeks is hereby amended by deleting from line four thereof the words "the first Monday after the first Monday in March" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the fourth Monday before the first Monday in March".

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1959.