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40 LEGAL DIRECTORY.
Sheriff Small Debt and Circuit Court.
The Ordinaiy Small Debt Court at Aberdeen is held on Thursday, at 10
o'clock A.M., weekly, during Sessions of the Court, and once or twice during
Vacation. The Circuit Small Debt Courts are held at Huntly and Turriff,
once every three months, and at Fraserburgh on the last Friday of every
month in Session.
W. Murdoch, Huntly I J. M. Anderson, Fraserburgh
William Ingram, Turriff |
are the persons who respectively issue summonses, &c., to be brought in
these Courts, and a Clerk from Aberdeen officiates in these Courts.
Justice of Peace Court.
The Quarter Sessions are held on the first Tuesdays of the months of
March, May, August, and last Tuesday of October. Special Sessions are
occasionally held.
Clerk — James A. Sinclair. Clerks-Deimte — William Murison and
R. G. Shirreffs.
Promrator-Fiscal— George Cadenhead, advocate.
Justice of Peace Small Debt Court.
The Aberdeen District Court sits every fortnight, on Monday, at 11 o'clock
A.M., for the trial of Small Debt Cases under £5, by 6 Geo. IV., c. 48.
Judges— Arrs two Justices of the Peace. Clerk— 3. A. Sinclair.
Clerks-Depute — William Murison and R. G. Shirreffs.
Bar-Officer — William Richardson.
DISTRICT AND DEPUTE CLERKS.
Abevdpen -f ^^- Murison and R
Aberdeen.... I g. Shirreffs
Alf ord Francis Stephen
Ellon George F. Raeburn
Rathen and ( John Proctor,
Fraserburgh ( Fraserburgh
Huntly W. Taylor
Turriff William Ingram
Old Deer John Walker
Garioch Jas. Monro, Inverurie
Peterhead Robert Maitland
Holidays— Ifie^ Year's Day, Good Friday, the First Monday in May, the
Queen's Birthday, the Aberdeen Annual Holiday, the First Monday in
August, and Christmas Day are kept as Holidays at the Sheriff-Clerk's and
the Justice of Peace Clerk's Offices.
Circuit Court of Justiciary.
The Circuit Court of Justiciary, for the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, and
Kincardine, meets at Aberdeen four times a-year, in the months of January,
April, July, and October for the trial of criminal cases by one or two of the
Lords. Appeals in certain civil cases from the inferior courts are also heard
by this court.
M essengers-at- Arms.
John Milne, Aberdeen | WUliam Rushmore, Fraserburgh

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