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the Justices of the said Courts hereby established, respectively, shall have power from time to time, to make and establish all such rules for the entry of actions, and for the admission of attorneys, filing pleas in abatement and demurrers to declarations, and for the orderly and well conducting the business of said Courts, as they may see fit, provided the same are not repugnant to the laws of this State.

Sect. 5. Be it further enacted [four underlined], That the said Courts of Common Pleas shall have power to adjourn the same from time to time, as may be necessary for the public good. And when any of the Justices of the said Court shall be detained from attending at the time or place at which said Court by law or by previous adjournment was to have been held, by means whereof there cannot be more than one of the said Justices present, then, and in that case, any Justice of the same Court being there present, shall constitute a quorum of the Court, for the purpose of calling the docket, entering defaults, and determining all questions of an interlocutory nature, and also for adjourning the same Court if necessary unto a further day, until a quorum can be convened, or if neither of the Justices of the same Court shall be present, the said Court may be adjourned by the Sheriff of the county, until a quorum can be convened, of which he shall make public notification in writing, in the shire town of the county.

Sect. 6. Be it further enacted [four underlined], That from and after the first day of October next, the grand and petit jurors now required to attend the Circuit Courts of Common Pleas in the respective counties, shall be required to attend the several Courts of Common Pleas, in the same manner and under the same penalties that they are now holden by law to attend the several Circuit Courts of Common Pleas, and shall give their attendance on such days of each term, as shall be directed by the Justices of the said Courts of Common Pleas respectively, and the writs of venire facias shall issue accordingly.

Sect. 7. Be it further enacted [four underlined], That all actions, suits, matters, and things, which may be pending in the several Circuit Courts of Common Pleas in this State, on the first day of October next, and all writs, executions, warrants,