The Empire County argus., 1856-05-03

An Act entitled Act to Submit the Question OF
the Removal of the County Seat Ell Dorado
County to the Qualified Voters thereof.
The People of the State of California represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Sec. l. Thirty days after the passage of this
Act an election shall be held in the County of Ell
Dorado to locate and establish the County Seat of
said County, and to determine by majority of all
the votes cast at said election whether the said
County Seat shall be and remain at the town of
Cooma, or be removed to the city of Placerville.
The ballots used at said election shall be written or
printed, and shall read thus ''For County Seat,
Coloma y or, "For County Seat, Placerven The
Board of Supervisors of said County, or ma jority
of them shall cause notices Of said election to be
posted in each of the election precincts at least six
days previous to the day Of holding said election,
and the Inspectors and Judges shall conduct said
election, count and make return of the votes cast,
in strict accordance with the provisions of an Act
entitled "An Act to provide for elections"
Sec 2 After the votes shall have been canvass
ed the Board of Supervisors of said County shall
declare the place having majority of all the votes
cast for County Seat and cause the same to be GER
titled and forwarded to the Secretary of State
Sec 3. If it shall appear from the returns of
said election that the city of Placerville has been
chosen the County Seat of said County the Board
of Supervisors of said County shall Immediately
make the necessary provisions for the removal of
all books, papers, furniture and movable property
of said County, and to secure suitable buildings
and offices in which to transact the business of the
County at Placerville, until the Court House and
other County buildings shall be erected.
Sec f. In the event of removal of the County
Seat from the town of Coloma, in pursuance of this
Act, the Board of Supervisors shall have power,
and it shall be their duty, to levy direct tax upon
the property of said County ratably as it shall ap-
pear on the assessment roll in per centage upon
the one hundred dollars sufficiently large to ensure
net receipts into the Treasury of said County of
sum in cash equal to Fifty thousand Dollars, to be
ton of the Board of Supervisors of said County,
exclusively for the erection of public buildings nee
essary for the holding of Courts, County Offices,
and the confinement Of prisoners.
Sec. S. When the Board of Supervisors of said
County have declared the city of Placerville to be
the County Seat of said County the District Court
the County Court, the Court of Sessions and the
Probate Court for said County shall thereafter be
held at the County Seat and all process which may
at the time of said removal be made returnable at
Coloma shall be deemed returnable at the city of
Placerville
Sec. 6. No contract for the erection of perma-
nent County buildings shall be made until after
proposals for such contract shall have been publish
ed by the Board of Supervisors Of said County for
at least twenty days in each newspaper printed in
said County consenting to publish the same, which
proposals shall state the time and manner of con-
struction and the material to be used, and no men,
ber of the Board of Supervisors Or other County
Officers, shall be interested in any manner in the
contracts made.
Sec. 7. All Acts and parts of Acts conflicting
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed
Approved April II, 1856.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
| certify that the foregoing is true copy of an
original Act on file in this Office
Witness my hand and the Seal of State,
I ,s at Sacramento this the Eighteenth day of
A' April A, D. 1856
~ DAVID F. DOUGLASS,
Secretary of State.
By WIN. II. r. WooD, Deputy.