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Session Clerks ; the Attorney General ; and the Pro- 

 vincial Secretary remain in office five years the Pro- 

 vincial Treasurer only one year. After these terms, 

 however, if nothing is charged against them, these offi- 

 cers may be again elected the two Assemblies elect 

 and the Governor confirms them. Courts of Common 

 Pleas are held monthly in the Court House of each 

 county, and have jurisdiction merely in criminal cases, 

 personalia and realia, not of great importance. Quarter 

 Sessions Courts are held in like manner in the county 

 Court Houses, once each quarter, and their jurisdiction 

 is wider. The General or Supreme Courts receive ap- 

 peals from these lower courts and pass on them ; crimi- 

 nal processes also are brought before the General 

 Court, which may exercise original jurisdiction in all 

 suits whatever involving amounts exceeding 25 Pd. 



Those residents of each county, eligible as electors, 

 choose among themselves yearly a Sheriff * and one 

 or more Coroners f ; the same persons may be chosen 

 three years in succession but not longer. After another 

 space of three years, these persons may be again elected. 

 The choice is announced to the Governor for con- 

 firmation. 



good order and peace in their district or county; commonly 

 intelligent and upright men are chosen by the people to this 

 office. 



The titles and duties of all the officers enumerated are, with- 

 out much difference, the same as in England and in the other 

 North American states. 



* His office is to execute the commands and judgments of 

 the courts, and to see that the laws are obeyed. 



t Whose office it is to make examination and determine the 

 cause, in cases of accidental, sudden, or violent death. 



