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 felony, and in all counties where it is decided by the voters to so increase the jurisdiction of said county court, the jurisdiction in cases of misdemeanors arising under State laws which may have been conferred upon police magistrates, shall cease.

§ 3. POPULATION, HOW DETERMINED.] The county commissioners shall determine the population of their respective counties by multiplying by five the total vote cast in the general election of county officers for the year 1888.

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 20, 1890.

CHAPTER 52.

[S. F. 215.]

DEFINING PRACTICE OF COURTS HAVING CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

AN ACT Fixing the Terms of Court and Defining the Practice in County Courts Having Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction.

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. TERMS OF COURT.] It shall be the duty of the county judge in each county in this State, in which the jurisdiction of the county court shall be hereafter increased by vote of the peonle, to hold a regular term of the county court at his office at the by him, commencing at 9 o'clock a. m., on the first Monday of each calendar month, for the trial of such civil actions as may be brought before such court. Such regular term shall be deemed to be open without any formal adjournment thereof until the third Monday of the same month, when all causes not then finally determined shall be continued by such court to the next regular term, but such courts shall be deemed to be always open for the filing of papers and issuance of process in civil actions, and for the purpose of taking and entering judgment by confession.

§ 2. SUMMONS, WHEN RETURNABLE.] In all cases commenced in said courts, it shall be the duty of the county judge to issue a summons, returnable on the first day of the next term of said court, if there be ten days intervening between the issuance of the summons and the first day of the term and if not then to be made returnable on the first day of the next term thereafter, which summons shall be directed and delivered to the sheriff or any constable of said county, and the sheriff or constable shall serve the