Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1839-05-11
For he .Mndison Ikhig .ldrocrte-
To tie Hon. Lsaac Il. Nicholson, Judge
Of the 18th Judicial District IN and for
the State of MiSsissiDDi.

Of the 7th Judicial District IN and for
the State Of Mississippi.
| SIR: am a citizen of Madison county.
and deeply interested in her prosperity.
The mere statement of this fact is SUI
ficient apology for my addressing you
on the subject of this communication,
which is, whether we are to have anoth-
er term of the Circuit Court in this coun-
ty during the present year, or before
another session Of our Legislature can
be held? If we are not, all sensible and
rejecting men must agree, it will be
one of the greatest calamities, perhaps.
that could befall the county. The credit
of her citizens, by which they were eRa-
bled to get in debt, and to preserve
which, as far as possible, unimpaired, is
necessary to enable them to get out Of
debt, must inevitably be Frustrated, and
consequences intellectually ruinous must
ensue. Such will be her fate if the
opinion of your Honor remain unchang-
ed. l will proceed to state that opinion
as expressed by you to me, personally,
first promising the law and facts Of the
case upon which it was based.
On the Ist March, 1888, an act was
passed by the Legislature of this State
''to provide for the location of perma-
nent seat of justice for Madison county"
that is, TO locate a place for a town in
which the several Courts should be held
in the county for the administration of
Justice. This act, after authorising the
Board of Police to ascertain the geogra-
phicai centre of the county, to contract
for land, and to make sale of the lots,
proceeds to empower the said Board to
designate the lot upon which a Court
house was to be built, and to erect II /
thereon. Section OF this act provides /
that so soon as the said Courthouse I
should be completed and so reported to
the Board of Police, and said report +
''there recorded" notice thereof should +
be given to the Clerks of the Courts that /
they might remove the books, papers,
&c, of their respective offices "to" it;
and that the Circuit and Orphans Courts
together with said Board of Police,
shall thereafter be held at said Court
house."
An act, 10 amend this act, was passed .
on the 25th of February 1886, By which
the Board of Police were authorised to
erect and complete a Courthouse on 1.-THE
public square in the town of Canton
Section 3, of this last mentioned statute
provides, that so soon as said Court
house 'Eshall have been completed, and
said Board of Police shall have receirsd
the same, and record thereof shall have
been made by said Board" the Board
should give notice TO the Clerks Of the
Circuit and Probate Courts that they
may remove to said Courthouse the
books, records, &c. of their respective
offices; and that ''the said Courts, togeth-
CT Will the Sliu DDdEU VI L Ott~Cs SAie'Lt {
thereafter be held at said Courthouse"
The new Courthouse now being erect
ed under the authority Of the last men
toned Statute has not been completed
and received, and, it IS universally be-
ieved by this community, will not be for
The next twelve months. Court lras held
in it, nevertheless, By your Honor, last
fall.
And the old Courthouse, built under
he act of 1888, has been sold and remov-
I'd. This was doubtless done under the
belief that the Courts would. in future, be
holden in the new Courthouse aforesaid
on the public square.
Upon the above Statutes and facts of
he case, your Honour, if my aPPrehen-