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Power to direct Issues joined in certain Actions to be tried before the Sheriff or any Judge.
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XVII. And be it further enacted, That in any Action depending in any of the said Superior Courts for any Debt or Demand in which the Sum sought to be recovered, and endorsed on the Writ of Summons, shall not exceed Twenty Pounds, it shall be lawful for the Court in which such Suit shall be depending, or any Judge of any of the said Courts, if such Court or Judge shall be satisfied that the Trial will not involve any difficult Question of Fact or Law, and such Court or Judge shall think fit so to do, to order and direct that the Issue or Issues joined shall be tried before the Sheriff of the County where the Action is brought, or any Judge of any Court of Record for the Recovery of Debt in such County, and for that Purpose a Writ shall issue directed to such Sheriff, commanding him to try such Issue or Issues, by a Jury to be summoned by him, and to return such Writ with the Finding of the Jury thereon indorsed, at a Day certain, in Term or in Vacation, to be named in such Writ; and there upon such Sheriff or Judge shall summon a Jury, and shall proceed to try such Issue or Issues.
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