Judges. Residence. Judges. Residence. 1. Richard H. Baker, of Nansemond Co. (12. L. P. Thompson, of Staunton. 2. James H. Gho'son, of Petersburg. 3. Geo. P. Scarburg, of Accomac. 4. Vacant. 5. John T. Lomax, 6. John Scott, 7. John B. Clopton, 8. Daniel A. Wilson, 9. William Leigh, 10. N. M. Taliaferro, 13. Isaac R. Douglass, of Morgan Co. of Cumberland Co. 19. D. W. McComas, of Wythe Co. of Halifax Co. of Franklin Co. 21. 11. Richard H. Field, of Culpepper Co. of Wheeling. Philip N. Nicholas, of Richmond. John Robertson, do. A Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery is held twice every year in each county and in some corporations. The judges who hold the Circuit Courts, are also required to hold, every year, two terms of the General Court in the Capitol at Richmond. It is the duty of fifteen of the judges to attend this Court, eleven being necessary to form a quorum. One term begins on the last Monday in June; the other, on the 1st Monday of December. The judges are required to arrange themselves into four classes, of five judges each, one of which is exempt, in rotation, from attending the court. The General Court has appellate jurisdiction in the last resort in criminal cases; also, original jurisdiction of probates and administrations, and some claims of the Commonwealth. Its judges, or a portion of them, sit as a special Court of Appeals, in cases in which the judges of the Court of Appeals proper are disqualified by interest or otherwise. County Courts. A Court sits in each County every month, held by four or more Justices of the Peace. These Courts, formed of plain farmers or country gentlemen, are invested with a jurisdiction wider than that of any other Court in the State, covering almost the whole field of cognizance, civil, criminal, legal, and equitable. Any one Justice can hold a Court with jurisdiction over all causes in which the value does not exceed $20. At the monthly and quarterly sessions, which are held by four or more Justices, deeds and wills may be proved, and chancery matters and suits at common law be heard and determined, with a right of appeal to a Superior Court. These Courts, exclusively, try slaves for all offences; and they examine free persons charged with felony, previously to their trial in the Circuit Court. Free Negroes and Indians are on the same footing with slaves. FINANCES. The Fund of Internal Improvement, and the Literary Fund, are State corporations, each having its own resources and expenditures. The resources of each, in part, come from the public treasury. Thus, in the Fund for Internal Improvement, the greater part of the State debt is reg⚫ istered, and the interest payable on the same comes through the warrant of the second Auditor. Should the revenue of this fund be insufficient, the deficiency is paid out of the Treasury. *The balance of interest on the Public Debt, amounting to $123,305.28, was paid out of the revenue of the Board of Public Works. Part of this amount, say $1,500, is taken from the surplus revenue of the Literary Fund. Out of the revenues of the Literary Fund, which last year amounted to $82,980.06. This amount does not include the 2d Auditors department, the expense of which is paid equally out of the revenue of the Board of Public Works and Literary Fund. WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, of Hillsborough, Governor, (term of of Lincoln Co., Salary. $2,000 Secretary of State, $800 and fees. John H. Wheeler, 1,500 1,000 Council of State.-Henry Fitts, of Warren Co.; Gabriel Holmes, of New Hanover Co.; Thomas N. Cameron, of Fayetteville; Henry W. Conner, of Lincoln Co.; Alexander W. Mebane, of Bertie Co.; James Watt, of Rockingham Co.; and David Watson, of Chatham Co. Pay, $3 per diem while in service, and $3 for every 30 miles' travelling. JUDICIARY. Supreme Court. Thomas Ruffin, of Orange Co. Chief Justice, Frederick Nash, of Hillsborough, Associate Justice, Joseph J. Daniel, of Halifax, do. Salary. $2,500 2,500 2,500 ($300, with the copy right of the Reports. The Supreme Court holds two sessions in each year, in the City of Raleigh; to wit, on the second Monday in June and the last Monday in December; and continues to sit at each term until all the business on the docket is determined, or continued upon good cause shown. It has power to hear and determine all questions at law, brought before it by appeal from a Superior Court of Law, and to hear and determine all cases in equity, brought before it by appeal from a Court of Equity, or removed there by the parties thereto. It has original and exclusive jurisdiction in repealing letters patent, and also has power to issue writs of certiorari, scire facias, habeas corpus, mandamus, and all other writs which may be proper and necessary for the exercise of its jurisdiction. The Judges of the Supreme and the Superior Courts are elected by joint ballot of both houses of the General Assembly, hold their offices during good behavior, and, under a provision in the amendments to the constitution of the State, their salaries cannot be diminished during their continuance in office. Judges. Thomas Settle, John M. Dick, D. F. Caldwell, R. M. Pearson, John L. Bailey, M. E. Manly, Wm. H. Battle, Superior or Circuit Courts. Salary, $1,950 each. of Rockingham. David Outlaw, of Salisbury. of Davie Co. Solicitors. of Bertie Co. of Greensboro'. Henry S. Clarke, of Beaufort Co. Robert Strange, of Fayetteville. Cadwallader Jones, Jr. of Orange Co. of Hillsborough. Hamilton C. Jones, of Rowan Co. John G. Bynum, of Rutherford. of Newbern. of Chapel Hill. | Spier Whitaker, of Halifax Co., Attorney General. Salary of a Solicitor-$20 for each Court which he attends, besides fees for conviction. The Attorney General receives, in addition, $100 for each term of the Supreme Court which he attends. The Superior Courts of law and the Courts of equity are holden in each and every county of the State, twice in each year, by the Judges thereof. For this purpose, the State is divided into seven circuits, each of which comprises about ten counties, and the Judges ride these circuits alternately, according to an arrangement agreed upon among themselves, the only restriction imposed upon them in making the arrangements being, that no Judge shall ride the same circuit twice in succession. As Judges of the Superior Courts of Law, they have jurisdiction of all pleas, real, personal, and mixed; of all suits and demands relative to legacies, filial portions, and estates of intestates; and also, of all pleas of the State and criminal matters of what nature, degree, or denomination soever, whether brought before them by original or mesne process, or by certiorari, writs of error, appeal from any inferior Court, or by any other way or means whatsoever. As Judges of the Courts of Equity, they have all the jurisdiction and powers appertaining to Courts of Chancery. FINANCES. Fund for the support of Government. Chief items of Receipt. Chief Expenditures. $42,893.98 27,482.40 Am't on hand, Nov. 1, '42, $29,002.66 General Assembly, 77,788.41 Executive officers and exp. 6,573.74 5,201.30 Interest on Railroad bonds, 42,884.00 788.64 Public Printing, Contingences, 138,764.61 3,372.62 2,325.65 The receipts of the Internal Improvement Fund, during the year, amounted to $28,833.97; the disbursements to $1,784.03; leaving a balance on hand, Nov. 1, 1843, of $27,049.60 WILMINGTON AND RALEIGH RAILROAD. The receipts on the Railroad, during the year 1843, for the conveyance of passengers, freight, and mail, amounted to And by Steamboats, Total, The expenses during the same period were, On the Railroad, In the Steamboats, Profits of Railroad and Steamboats, $122,108.72 104,066.27 $226,172.99 $70,176.09 77,990.08 $148,166.17 $78,006.82 The current expenses of the year, compared with those of the preceding year, were reduced $49,170. The receipts on the Railroad in 1841 amounted to $162,628; in 1842, $128,850; and in 1843, $122,108. On the Steamboat line, in 1841, $131,385; in 1842, $101,960; in 1843, $104,066. |