1876/77 public laws – Ch.271 Sec.17
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CHAPTER CCLXXI. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL COURT IN THE COUNTY OF WAKE.
That if the judge of the said criminal court shall fail to attend to hold a court on the day designated for a regular ora special term, it shall be the duty of the clerk to open and adjourn the court for the two first days of the term, and if the judge shall not attend by four o’clock in the afternoon on the second day of the said term, ihe court shall be adjourned by the clerk until the next court in course, and all the recognizances, bonds, obligations, process and other proceedings returned or returnaable to said term shall be of the same force and effect and shall be proceeded in as though the same were returnable to such next regular term as is now provided in such cases in the superior courts and shall be returrable as in such cases provided in said courts.