§ 29. All statutes now in force, conferring or defining the jurisdiction of the county courts, so far as they conflict with this act, are repealed; and those courts shall have no other jurisdiction than that provided in the next section. But the repeal contained in this section shall not affect any proceedings now pending in those courts.

$30. The county court has jurisdiction in the following special cases, but has no original civil jurisdiction except in such cases:

1. Civil actions in which the relief demanded is the recovery of a sum of money not exceeding five hundred dollars, or the recovery of the possession of personal property not exceeding in value five hundred dollars, and in which all the defendants are residents of the county in which the action is brought at the time of its commencement: subject to the right of the supreme court upon special motion for good cause shown to remove any such action to the supreme court before trial;

2. The exclusive power to review in the first instance, a judgment rendered in a civil action by a justice's court in the county, or by a justice's court in cities, and to affirm, reverse or modify such judgment;

3. The foreclosure or satisfaction of a mortgage, and the sale of mortgaged premises situated within the county, and the collection of any deficiency on the mortgage remaining unpaid, after the sale of the mortgaged premises;

4. The partition of real property situated within the county;

5. The admeasurement of dower in land situated within the county;

6. The sale, mortgage or other disposition of the real property situated within the county, of an infant or person of unsound mind;

7. To compel the specific performance, by an infant, heir or other person, of a contract made by a party who shall have died before the performance thereof;

8. The care and custody of the person and estate of a lunatic or person of unsound mind, or an habitual drunkard, residing within the county;

9. The mortgage or sale of the real property situated within the county, of a religious corporation, and the disposition of the proceeds thereof;

10. To exercise the power and authority heretofore vested in such courts of common pleas, over judgments rendered by justices of the peace, transcripts of which have been filed in the offices of the county clerks in such counties;

11. To exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred by statute upon the late courts of common pleas of the county, or the judges or any judge thereof, respecting ferries, fisheries, turnpike roads, wrecks, physicians, habitual drunkards, imprisoned, insolvent, absent, concealed or non-resident debtors, goal liberties, the removal of occupants from state lands, the laying out of railroads through Indian lands, and upon appeal from the determination of commissioners of highways, and all other powers and jurisdiction conferred by statute, which has not been repealed, on the late court of common pleas of the county, or on the county court, since the late courts of common pleas were abolished, except in the trial and determination of civil actions; and to prescribe the manner of exercising such jurisdiction, when the provisions of any statute are inconsistent with the organization of the county court;

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12. To remit fines and forfeited recognizances in t same cases and like manner as such power was giv by law to courts of common pleas. But the first su division of this section shall not apply to the coun courts of the counties of Kings and Erie.

13. To grant new trials or affirm, modify or rever judgments in actions tried in such court upon exce tions, or case made subject to an appeal to the suprer court; but in any action or proceeding pending in t county court, in which the county judge is, for any cau incapable of acting, it shall be his duty to make a c tificate of such fact, and file the same in the office the clerk of such county court, and thereupon jurisd tion of such action or proceeding shall be vested in t supreme court, and such further proceedings shall had therein, according to the practice of such court, might have been had in the county court, if such cat or matter had remained therein; but all such matt shall be heard or tried in the first instance at a spec term or circuit court, held in a county where such acti or proceeding is situated.

31. The county court is always open for the trai action of any business for which no notice is requir to be given to an opposing party. At least two ten in each county for the trial of issues of law or fact, a as many more as the county judge shall appoint, sh be held in each year at the places in the counties 1 spectively designated by statute for holding county circuit courts, on such days as the county judge sh from time to time appoint, and may continue as long the court deem necessary.

Notice of such appointment shall be published in t state paper at least four weeks before any such ter

and also in a newspaper, if any, printed in the county; so many of such terms as the county judge shall designate for that purpose, in such notice, may be held for the trial of issues of law, and hearing and decision of motions and other proceedings at which no jury shall be required to attend.

§32. Jurors for the county courts and courts of ses. sions shall be drawn from the jury-box of the county, and summoned in the same manner as for the trial of issues at a circuit court.

$33. The jurisdiction of the superior court of the city of New-York, of the court of common pleas for the city and county of New-York, of the mayors' courts of cities, and of the recorders' courts of cities, shall extend to the following actions :

1. To the actions enumerated in sections 123 and 124, when the cause of action shall have arisen, or the subject of the action shall be situated, within those cities respectively;

2. To all other actions where all the defendants reside, or are personally served with the summons with n those cities respectively, or where one or more of several defendants, jointly liable on contract, reside or are personally served with the summons, within those cities respectively, except in the case of mayors' and recorders' courts of cities, which courts shall only have jurisdiction where all the defendants reside within the cities in which such courts are respectively situated. The supreme court may remove into that court any action brought under this subdivision and pending in the superior court, or court of common pleas for the city and county of New York, and may change the

place of trial therein, as if such action had been commenced in the supreme court; such order for remova and for change of place of trial to be made in the supreme court upon motion, and on filing a certified copy of such order in the office of the clerk of the superior court, or of the court of common pleas, such cause shall be deemed to be removed into the supreme court, which shall proceed therein as if the same had originally been commenced there; and the clerk with whom such order is filed, must forthwith deliver to the clerk of the county in which, by such order, the trial is ordered to be had, to be filed in his office, all process, pleadings, and proceedings relating to such cause. And any action or proceeding pending in any mayor's or recorder's court, in which the judge is for any cause incapable of acting, may by such court be transferred to the county court of the county, and thereupon the papers therein on file in the mayor's or recorder's court shall be transmitted to the county court, which shall thenceforth have jurisdiction of such action or proceeding;

3. To actions against corporations, created under the laws of this State, and transacting their general business, or keeping an office for the transaction of business, within those cities, respectively, or established by law therein, or created by or under the laws of any other state, government or country, for the recovery of any debt or damages, whether liquidated or not, arising upon contract made, executed, or delivered within the state, or upon any cause of action arising therein.

$34. The court of common pleas for the city and county of New-York shall also have power to review