Section 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the governor shall appoint one recorder and twelve aldermen for the said city, who shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall severally and respectively have all the jurisdictions, powers and authorities of justices of the peace, and justices of oyer and terminer and jail delivery, of and for the said city, and shall act therein accordingly, jointly or severally, as fully and amply as any justice or justices of the peace or of oyer and terminer or jail delivery of or for any county within this commonwealth, may or can do in and for such county: and the justices of the peace at present commissioned in and for the borough of Pittsburg, shall be aldermen of the said city, and the governor shall appoint such number of aldermen, in addition to the said justices, as shall complete the number herein directed and limited, and in case of vacancy, by death, resignation, removal from the said city or otherwise, of any of the said aldermen, fill up and supply such vacancy as soon as may be; and the said recorder and aldermen and every of them, before he enters on the duties of his said office, in pursuance of this act, shall take a solemn oath or affirmation, before the president or one of the associate judges of the common pleas of Allegheny county, or before the mayor of the said city for the time being, "well and faithfully to execute and perform the office of recorder (or alderman, as the case may be) of the said city."
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.