The Empire County argus. [volume] (Coloma, El Dorado County, Cal.) 1853-1857, 1853-12-31
Indsn Diggings-Hon. Geo. Mcdonald, John S.

Indisn Diggings-Hon. Geo. Mcdonald, John S.
Parish
Dry Creek Vaey-Chaslcs Scofeld.
The convention was organized by the election of
George s. Sumner, President; Chas Scofeld and
E. W. Walton, Vice Presidents, and S. B. Artell
and Thos. j. Phelps Secretaries.
After the discussion of preliminary measures of
but little interest to the general reader and the APP
pointment of appropriate committees series of res
buttons were presented and adopted, among which
were the following
Resolved, That the division of the territory of q
sovereign State into Counties Parishes, is solely
for the public convenience and public economy, and
that whenever the people are put to inconvenience
or cost by reason of improper, unnatural, impoli-
tic divisions of the public domain, for civil poti-
cal purposes it is their right to demand redress of
the wrong and their accommodation as a BODY
polite is but their first right. And that any con-
sdcration of the particular views interests or preu-
dices of any particular locality, against the public
convenience and common welfare, is at war with the
rights Of citizens and residents, and contrary to the
usages of free governments.
ResOlUed That a committee ofone from each cleo
ton precinct be appointed to draft petition, to be
addressed to the next Legislature, praying for the
formation of county, out OF the northern por-
ton of Cala,eras and the southern portion of Ell
Dorado counties, and that such committee report
such resolutions as they may deem expedient and
proper towards the furtherance of the objects of
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this convention
Messrs Platte, Jones' Boynton, Phelps, Mcdonald,
Scofeld, Rose, Dickinson and Nlannon, were APP
pointed said committee.
The committee reported petition, praying the
establishment of county, proposing that the
new county be called Washington, and bounded by
the old county lines on the south, by the Costumes
river to the forks thence up the south fork to the
junction of the south and middle forks, thence up
the middle fork to its source, thence east to the
State line for its northern boundary by the State
line on the east and by the north fork of the Mo-
kelumne river on the south.
Resolved, That Messrs. Copper and Jonathan Palm
or, of Ell Dorado county, and Col. Platte and w D.
Skidmore of Calaveras, be appointed committee
to procure statistics of the population, debt value
of real and personal property, (rom the assessment
roll, and foreign miners and poll taxes collected
for that portion of the counties of FL Dorado and
CaaveraS comprised within the contemplated limits
of the new county, and that said committee report
the result of their labors for Ell Dorado county to
the Hon. George Mcdonald, and for Calaveras to
the Hon. NJ W. Gordon, at the Capital of the
State.
Resolved, That Chas Boynton, of Caaveras, and
L. j. Phelps, of FL Dorado, be appointed commit
tee to procure the printing of the petition and thew
are hereby instructed when said petitions are pro-
cured to distribute the in every town and vii
age for signatures, and to take measures that said
petitions, when signed, be returned from FL Dorado
county to lhos. J. Phelps and from Calavcras to
Chas Boynton, or before the 18th day of January
next, and that the said Phelps transmit those from
FL Dorado county to the Hon. Geo Mcdonald, and
the said Boynton transmit those from Calaveras to
the Hon. M. w. Gordon.
Resolved, That Bruce Husband, COL Mediary Jno
Morrissey, of Calaveras, and r. NJ Briggs, ]. s.
Parish and Dennis Townsend, of FL Dorado county
be appointed committee, to be known as the cor
responding committee, whose duty it shall be to Sc:
cure transmit and publish such information as thew
may deem necessary in the furherance of the OBJ
jects of this convention.
Resolred That Thos. J. Phelps furnish renort
oft proceedings of this convention for the Demo-
cratic State Journal and that the Caareras Chron;
cA Empire County Argus, Miners Advocate, and the
FL Dorado and Sacramento papers generally be re-
quested to publish the same
The most perfect harmony and good feeling pre-
vailed throughout the entire sitting of the conven
ton. Every member of the convention seemed to
be animated by the same laudablc desire to secure
a new county, not a solitary remark having been
made during the discussion of the various TOPICS he.
fore the convention, calculated to arouse local prc
Judlce or party animosity.
Speeches were made by several gentlemen. re-
pete with statistical and geographical information.
evincing most conclusively that public convenience
and public economy call loudly for the new county
THOS. J. PHELPS, Sec'v.