The first term of the faid court fhall begin on the fecond Tuef- 5 day of June in every year, and may continue to be held until the Saturday following, inclufive; and the fecond term of faid court fhall begin on the fecond Tuefday of November in every year, and may continue to be held until the Saturday following, inclufive; Provided always, That nothing in this act contained fhall be conftrued to affect any fuit or action already commenced or that fhall be commenced in any court of common pleas, or before any juftice of the peace, before the holding of the first term of the faid courts of common pleas and general feffions of the peace in the county hereby erected, fo as to work a wrong or prejudice to any of the parties therein, or to affect any criminal or other proceedings on the part of the people of this state; but all fuch civil or criminal proceedings fhall and may be profecuted to trial, judgment and execution as if this act had never been paffed.

III. And be it further enacted, That the faid court houfe and 6 gaol fhall be erected at or near the great bend of the Tonnawonta-creek, at the village called Batavia, and that the faid courts 7 of common pleas and general feffions of the peace fhall be held therein at the first court to be held in the county of Genefee, after the appointing and commiffioning the civil officers of faid county; which faid court houfe and gaol, when erected, fhall be deemed in law the court houfe and gaol of the faid county of Genefee.

IV. And be it further enacted, That no circuit court or courts 8 of oyer and terminer and general gaol delivery fhall be held in and for faid county until the fame fhall in the opinion of the juftices of the fupreme court become neceffary.

V. And be it further enacted, That the faid county of Genefee9 fhall be confidered as part of the western diftrict of this state, and until other provifion be made by law the infpectors of elec- 10 tion in the feveral towns in the county of Genefee fhall return the votes taken at any election for governor, lieutenant-governor, fenators, members of affembly and reprefentatives in congrefs, to the clerk of the county of Ontario, to be by him estimated as part of the aggregate number of votes given at fuch election in the county of Ontario.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the faid county of Genefee, 11 fhall be annexed to and become part of the district now coinpofed of the counties of Onondaga, Cayuga, Tioga, Steuben and Ontario, as it refpects all proceedings under the act, entitled "An act relative to district attornies."

VII. And be it further enacted, That all taxes heretofore af- 1 feffed in the county of Genefee, fhall be recovered in like manner as if this act had never been paffed; and that the supervisors 1 of the county of Ontario, in conjunction with the fupervifor or fupervifors of the county of Genefee, fhall have the like power, until the county of Genefee is organifed as aforefaid, to raife all fuch fums of money for the contingent expences of the faid county of Genefee and the county of Ontario, as if this act had not been paffed.