Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-02-25
FOR THE GAZETTE.
To the People Of Alerandria County
NO. 4.

| have in the preceding No. stated,
what will be our situation, as 10 the judi
asl system. If we go back to Virginia
Let NE present to the view OF my tellow-
citizens what il 10 at this time.
We are happily freed from the county
court system; we have court composed,
a. i, always has been. and we have right
70 expect il always will be, OF gentlemen
who have made the law their peculiar stu
Unqualified to administer Justice legally
and honestly between conteoding parties.
We have Justice as it were brought 10 each
mans door. No person in the. District
WI O may have business in the cour' is com
PEELED to travel more than ten miles, and
a may return to their families and homes
at night. If party whose claim amounts
to one thousand dollars, is dissatisfied with
the Judgment of the circuit court. he may
bv writ OF error, or it chanCery cause
by appeaI take his case to the supreme
court of the Union, where he may not on
ly attend at little expence in person, but
may have if he pleases, his counsel who
has managed the cause, in the circuit court
and from that circumstance is well acquam
ted with It, to argue il in the supreme
court-lnsiead OF having to pay heavy ex-
pences, If he attended in person, and en-
ploy in Fredericksburg and Richmond new
sttornies. But It the claim is under one
thousand dollars and not less than DlOO-
and the principle involved IN the case IS a
generals one, affecting other cases, any
Judge of the supreme court may grant an
appeal-is it not very evident that the STU
alton of the people of Alexandra as to their
judiciary is much better than 1t would be
Under the Virginia system. 10 transfer
the cbancery business to a distant court
and from thence to the court OF appeals
NAV not be- very inconvenIent, TO some
gentleman of the bar, who regard not the
trouble Of travelling three or tour Tunes
wear to those places-especially II they
arc compensated for then trouble by an.o-
nopoly OF the business from this county.
But this IS not all, the people OF this
county applied 20 congress for law to
make real estate liable to execution tor
debts. and to place promissory notes on
footing with bills of exchange; Congress
complied with their wishes, by passing
the laws. If Alexandra is receded to
Virginia. we u,e shall loose the benefit Of
heSe t00S, LOT boue SUI" eA'@' !" '"S'
state.
have stated that we have no reasonable
ground, to expect, that IT Alexandra is
receeded 10 Virginia new couGiy will
be made of it-Independent OF the rea
son assigned already for this opinion
there are others growing out of TIE deep
interest u hch.particular individuals would
have to prevent it. may be asked what
will be the arrangement The interest OF
the individuals to whom | refer, would
ueges, that Alexandria should be continu>
ed as a part of Fairfax county-Tbat the
county court be held at Fairfax Court
House; the superior court OF law for the
county be held in Alexandria, give the
town a corporation court, and tie privi-
edge of holding the election for members
of the county to the general assembly, by
the freeholders of the town, in Alexandra.
This is precisely the arrangement that ex-
lists in the county of Spottsy lvanla. Pen
dleton in his second letter has given an es,
innate of profit or loss, by being receded
to Virginia According to his statement,
we shall gain what we never lost, our u
BERTH and four hundred and thirty nine
dollars and seventy four cents besides,
there is no error IN bis statement
Of the subjects Of taxation and caleula-
lions. To winch he adds the valuable &C
1uiyitiops of the Village ard West End
4 to \ hicb it 8 sufficient to observe thai
heir present appearance is not much IN
favor of Virginia policy, especially If the
Spring garden forms part of it,
shall hereafter give whit consider
more correct examination OF the subjects
Of taxation in Virginia, to " hieh Alexan-
dra county must BE- subject re urned to
that s,ate-For the present will barely
state one subject of taxation in Virginia,
M hich WPsndletnnn omitted TO mention In