HISTORY OF VERMONT^ 405 



and ^ny of its subjects, whether the same be 

 brought into said court by appeal, writ of error, 

 or in any otlicr legal \vay whatsoever. The sur 

 preme court has ori,ainal exclusive jurisdiction 

 of the crimes of adultery, polygamy, and all 

 capital felonies, of treason, misprison of treason, 

 counterfeiting the currencies of the state, and 

 every species of forgery, perjury, subornation 

 of perjury, incest, rapes, defaming the civil au- 

 thority of the state, and ail other crimes and mis- 

 demeanors, where a fine or penalty is going to 

 the state treasury, or where the punishment ex-r 

 tends, either by comnaon or statute law, to the 

 loss of life, limb, or banishment. The supreme 

 court begin their circuit in Bennington county, 

 pn the first Tuesday in August ; from thence 

 \t proceeds to Rutland, the next adjacent counr 

 ty, beginning the session there on the second 

 Tuesday in August ; and in this order pro- 

 ceeds through all the counties in the state, be? 

 ginning the session in the next county, oi^ 

 the succeeding Tuesdays, until they have 

 finished the circuit in seven weeks at Windr 

 ham county : And it is left to the chief 

 justice, to call a special court, where the 

 exigencies of government shall require it. 

 [18063 Since the above 'arrangements were 

 inade, the judges have been directed to have 

 sessions of the supreme court, in some of the 

 new counties. A different order has been es- 

 tablished as to the times, and places, of holding 

 the courts ; and it is probable, that these will 

 vary in future, as the convenience of the people 

 and of the judges may require. 



A court of chancery is also constituted in the 

 f tate of Vermont ; to be holden in the several 



