NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 761

HOUSE BILL 1050

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-70 RELATING TO THE TERMS OF SUPERIOR COURT IN PASQUOTANK 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 Pasquotank County is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Pasquotank - The eighth Monday before the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the second Monday before the first Monday in March to continue two weeks for the trial of criminal cases only; the second Monday after the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the ninth Monday after the first Monday in March to continue two weeks for the trial of civil cases only; the thirteenth Monday after the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of criminal cases only; the fourteenth Monday after the first Monday in March to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the second Monday after the first Monday in September to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the sixth Monday after the first Monday in September to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only; the tenth Monday after the first Monday in September to continue one week for the trial of criminal cases only; the thirteenth Monday after the first Monday in September to continue one week for the trial of civil cases only."

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 for certain specified weeks is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words "the second Monday after the first Monday in March" beginning in line four and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "the third Monday before the first Monday in March, the fifteenth Monday after the first Monday in March". Said portion of G. S. 7-70 is hereby further amended by striking the period at the end, inserting in lieu thereof a comma and adding the words "and the fourteenth Monday after the first Monday in September.".

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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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