Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-01-19

sclhpiy aCtcu on TIE Assumption, tnat JACKSON
was the choice of a majority of the citizens
and voters of the county, for the county seat,
manifested by their votes cast at the election
in July, 1854, for the town of Jackson
Your memorialsts further show to your Hon
orable bodies that by the official vote as
shown by the official returns for Governor
and others elected at the last general election
for State and County officers the county of
Amador on the first Wednesday of last Sep
tember cast Three Thousand Eight Humid
red and Forty-niae rotes that of that num-
Der the town of jackson cast only five hun
dred and forty-nine votes whilst the town of
Volcano cast One Thousand and forty-seven
votes
Your memorialists further show that the
Town of Volcano is twice as populous as
jackson; is central to the people of the
County having business with the Courts, and
the County officials, and is by far more
suitable and convenient for the County seat
than the Town of jackson. They further
show that jackson is off to the one side of
the County, being not six miles from the
County seat Of Calayeras County That
Volcano and the adjacent country pay more
taxes into the State and County Treasury
than the Town of jackson and its vicinity.
They further show that Volcano is fast i'm
proving in population, enterprise and wealth,
and that her mineral resources are exhaust
less. la Us wo
Your memorialists furthermore show that,
the act of the Legislature of this State, of
1850, amended by the act of 18th May
1854, entitled an act amendatory Of an
act, to provide for the permanent location of
the seats of Justice Of the several Counties
Of this State prescribes that, a majority of
all the legal rotes cast, shall be necessary to
locate a County seat; and endets that, should
no particular place receirc such majority, netc
election shall be held By the order Of the County
Judge, By giring f fteen days prerious NOTICE,
10 determine tchieh Of the taco places, hariag
receiUed The, greatest number of rOtes at the
prerious election should Be the County seat.
That the fourth section of the act of 1854,
chap. AZ, authorizing a vote to be cast for a
County seat of Amador County, is silent, as
10 tohat number of uotes should be requisite, to
designate and fr the County seat. That in
consequence of such omission in that law, the
voters were left to believe that the time honor
ed custom prescribing a majority of all the rotes
cast to be essentially necessary to designate
the place of holding the Courts as fixed by
the Senate and Assembly by the afore-
mentioned acts of 1850 and 1854, would be
observed, in locating the County seat of this
County They further show that the cleo
tors at the July election aforesaid, believing
that no one Of the Towns competing for the
County seat could command majority Of
all the votes cast in the County, at that cleo
ton for County scat, and that second trial
would be had as prescribed by the Statutes
of 1850 and 1854, between the two highest
Towns on the list, manifested much apathy on
the County seat question the all absorbing
topic, being the organizing of Amador Coun-
ty into new and Independent County The
Undersigned will not permit themselves even to
entertain doubt that the representatives of
the people of Cal. will refuse to carry out
the expressed will of a majority of the peo-
pie of Amador County, on a local question
Of such magnitude, but that they will cheer
fully acquiesce in the popular will, expressed
to the Senate and the Assembly, by the sa-
cred right of petition. We the undersigned
citizens and voters of Amador County, res
pectfully pray the Honorable the Senate and
the Assembly, to pass an act at the present
session, fixing the County seat of Amador
County, in the Town of Volcano; and to
extend to us your petitioners, by an act of
the present session, all such other and fur
ther relief in the premises, as our case merits
and demands, and as in duty bound We will
ever pray, &c. .1