A NEW JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
The bill [S. 167] to define the Twentieth Judicial Circuit and creating the Forty-fifth Judicial Circuit was read the third time.
Mr. FRAZER noticed by the provisions of the bill that it makes two Circuits out of the Counties of Boone and Clinton, both small Counties Two-thirds of the Counties of the State would be entitled to separate Circuits if these two Counties are. Mr. Bryant stated that in Clinton County they had a population of 21,000, and in Boone County a population of 27,000, and that the Court was now behind 1,000 cases.
Mr. PATTEN was one of the Committee who investigated this matter and felt it his duty to support this measure. The bill passed the House by yeas, 54; nays, 26.
