The weekly Placer herald., 1853-12-31
Renort of the Grand jury.
lover THE LEFT-)
n, The Hon. the Court Of Sessions


-, ,be land, and not particularly request
.,,;, ,utely to inquire into the conduct IN
H.s Of publ" officers of every de~crIp
,;,bin their rcnunty, beg leave respect
c,uy 70 pass by the conduct of said officers,
,ho dmieS of said various officers are
ou discharged. But the undersigned
:.o =, report tnurhing various SuIa
,,srs which our predecessors nadver-
tently omitted.
ID first we won d heg leave respect
c.I., >, rpnresrnt that there are running
,'u.'',ab 'u"' our county in different directions
. n'';,a q number of public roads, which
q nu,ler the control and supervision OF
.hn C,urt of Sessions whose duty it is to
sne 'ne m + said roads are kept in good and
n"..ahle condition, but that owing to the
lp''"nt p If few bridges these roads at
rort,iu seasons in the year are IN very
,,~J conrition and sometimes wholly I'M
n,Ssable. It seems from the reports of The
fn.nres Of the county which have been
nuhIi.hed at different tines, that the
r,.hn q amount paid from the County
Treasury, since the organic ''lnn of the
Cnuuty, for roads and bridges has been
onIv about six hundred do lars-certalnly
very small amount for two years and
q half; while during that period there has
h4rn pad into the County Treasury for
county purposes the sum of elghty-rhree
thousand dollars. Justice to- the tax pay
ors If the county demand that roads and
bridvps receive at the hands of the Court
Of Sessions little more attention than
has heretofore been bestowed upon them.
From the gpoprnphira position of Placer
county with respect to the adjoining
counties and Sacramento it is evident that
the better our roads the greater will be
the amount Of trave the greater the
amount Of trave the more the amount of
business for our public houses, &C., and
consequently the greater the value of pro-
pprty and revenue to the county. 50
what Justice demands, policy dictates.
The undersigned would further repre-
sent thar there is now in the hAnhS Of the
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
the sum of sixty thousand doll ~, tn"
urnrpedS of the school fund, ready for
distribution to tho different counties of the
State, but tn It owing to the negligence Of
some body there has never heen an &C.
ton order d for School Commissioners in
the county, the steps necessary tn secure
our y Opn,tinn of the fund have not been
taken, and Consequently it will 20 To those
COMMITTEES where schools are established
a portion of the taxeS paid by the citizens
of this county il pad INTO this school, fund
SO tn II the people of this county are con
tributinr 10 Yards the education of the
children of FL Dorad0. Sacramento and
other countless We Wnu|I suggest the
po lev of luokng out for uu"nher "iie.
There are three or four y aces IN the
county wh,re schools could he establish
ed and nniutnncd six nr eight months IN
the year, if the support which our quota
of til" Srhoo fund wnuld afford, cou Il be
obtained and distributed.
Nor can we in duty hound c 'oSe this
report without calling the attention of
your honorable body to certain provisions
Of chap l79 of the Laws of the last LfglS-
lnture. In sections % and 80 of that act,
there i provision made for the cure Of
the ndigen SICK in the different counties
Of the Stale, the fund set apart hv the
State being subject To the order of the
Court of eSsions Of the different counties
l'v ''l"", to he applied on y t" that speri
H. object. But as far we can earn
there has been nothing yet done in regard
W. li'd'NI. tVit iIfiN "'N" - 'N'' ~
our community more or less ct the deS-
tltule sirk-and up to the present time
they have been 4 IN st Who'll dependent
upon the charity of those around them.
This charity has been free glven-hut
at the same time it has often been a tax
which the givers were not able TO hear
lhe physician who would refuse To AT
tend Il destitute SEX man would be looked
upo as unworthy the support # the com
nInIty, yet il Is fact we'll known tn It
about one third of the services of the
physicians OF the county are rendered t"
th''se' who have no means of p ying for
the same. We would suggest, therefore
that measures be taken to carry out the
benevolent intentions of the law in regard
to the destitute and unfortunate. Let us
nave small hospital, (rostirg one-tenth
OF the sum paid for our fine court hou>e,)
divided into ten or ii dozen wards, the
same plainly ut comfortably furnished.
MS too would be san ornament to the
county," source of pride to its citizens,
ana would speak well for those h wing
charge Of our affairs. 1t might add years
!" the life of ii dying man. or make as
comfortable lis could be his last moments.
~ conclusion we won Il suggest th Il
a. we have large and >plenlld building
ior Justice and all her officials, let us have
small one for Charity; as we pay thou
SANDS OF dollars for taking care of raScal>
,l..f. l. h.. IN