Chap. 206.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 10 of chapter 9,
and section 2 of chapter 155 of the Code of 1873, in reference to the
jurisdiction of circuit courts.

Approved April 16, 1874.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section ten
of chapter nine, and section two of chapter one handred and
fifty-five of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 10. The circuit court shall have appellate jurisdiction
for cases of contested elections which may be cognizable by
the county courts.”

Ҥ 2. The circuit courts shall have the same jurisdiction
as is provided by law on the day before this act takes effect,
and shall, in addition, have exclusive original jurisdiction for
the trial of indictments for felonies, of contested elections
which may be cognizable in any court other than in the
county courts, of which they shall have only appellate juris-
diction. Jurisdiction of writs of mandamus, prohibition and
certiorari (except such as may be issued from the court of
appeals) shall be in the corporation court and in the circuit
court of the county or corporation in which the record or
proceedings is, to which the writ relates. Any such writ
may be awarded either by the corporation or circuit court,
or in vacation by the judge thereof.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.