Butte record., 1856-03-22
The Question of Removal.

ION. Inc law has regularly passed D0th
branches OF the Legislature, received
the approval of the Governor, and no"
awaits the action ef the qualified elect
ors of Butte County The law, which
is model one, and should be preserved
as constitutional curiosity, VIII be
found in another column. There is no
mistaking its provisions A South Bos-
ton Justice of the Peace could not have
framed a bill with more nicely, or COW
cred up loop-holes with more carefully
guarded or supeIfuous repetitions. It
was, doubtless, intended to head the
Bidwell clique, and II stands a perfect
monument of the skill, sagacity and
craftsmanship of It's author. We doubt
not but that the author of the law viii
remain enveloped in the same impene-
trable mystery which has SO long screen
ed from public knowledge nd consequent
judgment the striker" who,
in day. Lang syne," assaulted Billy
Patterson.
One Of the provisions Of the bill, had
it any force, would be direct insult to
the people of the county. None but
Know. No hing authority would have the
impudenee to require m.n to perforo
services for the county for nothing. The
bill makes il the duty Of the board Of
Supervisors to appoint Judges and in,
spectors Of elections and says that they
shall perform such service without com
pensation. But the author of the bill
must be literal and natural Know No
thing, without sense sufficient to repeal
a law which says they shall receive pay
for such services. If this provision was
inserted in the bill for the purpose ofre-
quiring men to perform such service for
nothing, as appears upon its face, it is a
Know-Nothing imposition. Was it
done for the purpose of deluding the
taxpayers of the county into the belief
that the election would be conducted
free Of expense, and at the same time,
permit the judges and inspectors to draw
pay for their services, it is a Know No
thing swindle upon the county. 1t is
singular if that party cannot originate
the simplest measure wi hout re>orting
to fraud or deception. But enough of
this. Let the judges and inspectors
perform their duties and send in their
bills. The laborer is yet worthy of his
hire, and there is yet law upon the
statute book which says they shall re-
ceive compensation for such service, eff
fort of XII Yi-ism to the contrary not
withstanding.
There is no donbt but what the agita-
ton of this subject at the present time
will result to the material injury of the
county. 1t has been the father of three
different projects for the dismemberment
of the county, and where these wild
projects will end, Heaven only knows,
if the citizens of the county do not put
their veto upon the matter. Had the
question of removal been let alone until
/ the different interests of the county had
fairly developed themselves, the place
for the county seat would have designa-
ted itself, and the county seat would
have been removed by common consent,
without giving rise to the various projects
now afoat for the dismembermento of the
county. As it now stands, should the
county seat be removed to Orovile,
Mountain Spring Township will demand
to be set off into 4 new county to be
formed out of portions Of Pumas and
Sierra. Forbestown will demand to be
set off into Yuba County, and whether
the County Seat be removed or not, we
suppose the valley portion Of the county
will demand to be set off by themselves.
This would still leave Butte County in
OrovilIe, and that would be about the
extent of the once magnificent county
Of Butte. These are not idle specula~
tions, put forth for the purpose Of pre-
venting the removal They are we'll
known facts, and the projects are conn
tenanced for the purpose of influencing
the votes of those sections in favor of
Oroville This all wrong. The agita-
ton of the question is wrong. In the
course of year or two, the different
sections of the county would have de-
vtloped themselves, and designated the
most important business place in the
county, and there would all interests
settle by comm IN consent. Should that
place be Oroville, we should interpose
no objection but should rejoice to see
place worthy of note built up within
Butte County, and it is believed that it
can be done without alternating portions