- General Court.
The state is divided into ten
Judicial Districts and each District into two Circuits, except the
4th, which compromises three. The 21st Circuit forms the third
Circuit of the 4th District, and consists of Richmond and the County
of Henrico, having a separate court of its own. The judge of
this Circuit has a salary of $1,800 and the others Judges $1,500 per
year. |
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Richard H. Baker |
Nansemond
County |
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John Y. Mason |
Southampton County |
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Abel P. Upshur |
Northampton County |
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John B. Christian |
Charles City |
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John T. Lomax |
Fredericksburg |
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John Scott |
Fauquier County |
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John B. Clopton |
Richmond County |
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William Daniel |
Campbell County |
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William Leigh |
Halifax County |
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Fleming Saunders |
Franklin County |
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Richard H. Field |
Culpeper
County |
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L. P. Thompson |
Amherst County |
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Isaac R. Douglas |
Morgan County |
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Daniel Smith |
Rockingham
County |
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Benjamin Estell |
Wythe County |
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James E. Brown |
Greenbrier
County |
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John J. Allen |
Greenbrier
County |
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Edwin S. Duncan |
Harrison County |
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Lewis Summers |
Kanhawa
County |
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Joseph L. Fry |
Richmond County |
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Philip N. Nicholas |
Richmond County |
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County Courts sit each month, held by
four of 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.
Their civil jurisdiction is over all causes in which value does not
exceed $20. They exclusively try slaves for all offences; and
they examine free persons charged with felony, previous to their
trial in the Circuit Court. |
- for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1905.
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| City of
Fredericksburg, criminal expenses |
$434.20 |
| City of Williamsburg,
criminal expenses |
$44.80 |
| Charles City County,
criminal expenses |
$174.27 |
| Essex County,
criminal expenses |
$172.28 |
| King and Queen
County, criminal expenses |
$79.50 |
| New Kent County,
criminal expenses |
$142.33 |
| Northumberland
County, criminal expenses |
$162.99 |
| Stafford County,
criminal expenses |
$159.46 |
| York County, criminal
expenses |
$116.67 |
These are criminal expenses of city/county
during a whole twelve months. Criminal expenses increase throughout
the several counties only in proportion to the number of alien, or
non-native persons either permanently or temporarily resident
therein.
The increase of criminal expenses is rarely caused by
offences committed by the native residents. The man, white, or
black, who should become a menace to the peace & quiet of society
there would not be tolerated. |
Transcribed by
Fran Taylor, 2006
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