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empowered, to dismiss any such Action or Complaint before him
with Costs, and either on the Merits, or without Prejudice to further
or other Proceedings, as he shall think fit.
VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That if any Action Consequences of not
or Suit shall be commenced in the said Supreme Court for any Debt proceeding
mary Jurisdunder
ictionSum-
.
or Damages, other than hereinbefore excepted, not exceeding the Sum
of One Hundred Dollars, and recoverable under and by virtue of the
Summary Jurisdiction given by this Ordinance, the Plaintiff or
Plaintiffs in such Action or Suit shall not, by reason of any Verdict
for him, her, or them, or otherwise, be entitled to any Costs what-
soever ; and if the Verdict shall be given for the Defendant or
Defendants in such Action or Suit, and the Chief Justice of the said
Court shall think fit to certify that such Action or Suit ought to have
been brought and tried before him under the Summary Jurisdiction
of the said Court, then such Defendant or Defendants shall have
Double Costs, and shall have such Remedy for recovering the same
as any Defendant or Defendants may have for his, her, or their Costs
in any Case by Law.
VIII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That no Person Plaintiffs and Defen-
whatever shall be permitted to appear and act in any such Summary dants sonally,tounless
attend Per-
unavoi-
Proceeding for or on behalf of any Plaintiff or Defendant therein, dably prevented.
unless it shall be first proved to the Satisfaction of the Chief Justice
of the said Supreme Court that such Plaintiff or Defendant is
prevented by some unavoidable Necessity, or some good or sufficient
Cause, from attending such Court in Person.
IX. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Provisions Witness not atten-
contained in the 26th Section of Ordinance No. 6 , with respect to the ty
ding,
ofand Persons guil-
Contempt, how
Non -attendance of Witnesses pursuant to their Subpoenas, and to punished.
Persons guilty of a Contempt of Court, shall apply to and be in Force
as to all Matters and Proceedings under the Summary Jurisdiction
of the said Supreme Court.
X. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Provisions Perjury.
contained in the 27th Section of Ordinance No. 6, made with respect
to Persons guilty of wilful and corrupt Perjury, shall apply to and
be in Force as to all Matters and Proceedings under the Summary
Jurisdiction of the said Supreme Court.
XI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That in each and Execution.
every case within the Summary Jurisdiction of the said Supreme
Court where the Chief Justice thereof shall have made any Order or
Decree for the Payment of Money, it shall and may be lawful for the
said Chief Justice, at the Prayer of the Party so prosecuting such
Order or Decree, to issue a Writ or Precept signed by the said Chief
Justice, in the Form given in the Schedule hereunto annexed, which
Writ or Precept shall be directed to one or more Bailiff or Bailiffs of
the said Court, who is and are hereby authorized and empowered to
levy the Amount thereof of the Goods, Chattels, and Effects, Lands,
Tenements, and Hereditaments, of the Defendant, or to arrest the
Defendant, as the case may be : Provided, that it shall be lawful for Power to appoint
the said Chief Justice, and he is hereby empowered and authorized , special Bailiffs.
when thereto required by the Plaintiff in any Suit or Proceeding
wherein