. he vacancy caused by the death ot Judge Nill. He was elect-ed president judge in October, 1864, and commissioned December 3, 1864, for ten years. fJudge Rowe was appointed additional law judge, March 18, 1868. He was elected to the same positionin October, 1868, for ten years from first Monday in December, 1868. Under the constitution of 1873 FranklinCounty became a separate judicial district, to which Fulton County has been attached, and on the 17th of April,1S74, Hon. D. Watson Rowe was commissioned president judge of the Thirty-
. he vacancy caused by the death ot Judge Nill. He was elect-ed president judge in October, 1864, and commissioned December 3, 1864, for ten years. fJudge Rowe was appointed additional law judge, March 18, 1868. He was elected to the same positionin October, 1868, for ten years from first Monday in December, 1868. Under the constitution of 1873 FranklinCounty became a separate judicial district, to which Fulton County has been attached, and on the 17th of April,1S74, Hon. D. Watson Rowe was commissioned president judge of the Thirty-ninth District, to hold for the re-mainder of the term for which he had been electeJ additional law judge, viz.: till the first Monday of December,1878. a J , I Appointed 1st of February, 1871, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge King; nominated and elect-ed October, 1871, for full term often years. The district having been divided, Bedford and Somerset Counties-were continued as the Sixteenth District, aud Judge Hall continues to preside y<f/S, JY&7T6 HISTOEY OF FEANKLIN COUNTY. 4191 James Ferguson; John Armstrong; James D. McDowell, from first Monday inDecember, 1871; David Oaks, from first Monday in December, 1872. Thirty-ninth District, 1874.—Franklin and Fulton Counties. Presidentjudge, D. Watson Rowe from April 17, 1874. Associates, James D. Mc-Dowell, David Oaks, till his death, December 2, 1874. The county, having the requisite inhabitants, has had no associatejudges since the expiration of the commission of James D. McDowell, firstMonday in December, 1876. In 1878 Judge Rowe was re-elected president judge of the Thirty-ninthDistrict for another term of ten years, but, in 1883, Fulton County was de-tached from this district, leaving Judge Rowe with Franklin only. LIST OF ATTORNEYS. The following is a list of attorneys, with the date of the term of their admis-sion to the bar: John Clark, September, 1784; Robert Magaw, December,1781; Thom
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