The Georgetown news., 1856-04-10
An Act,

To submit the question of the removal of
the County Seat of El Dorado County to
the qualified voters thereof.
The people of the State of California, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly do en-
act as follows:
SECTION l. Thirty days after the pas
sage 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 whether the said county seat
shall be and remain at the town of Coloma,
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," or ''for county
seat, PlacerviIle." The Board of Supervi-
sors of said county, or majority 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 accord
ance with the provisions of an act entitled
"an act to provide for elections"
SECTION 2. After the votes shall have
been canvassed the Board of Supervisors
of said county shall declare the place hav-
ing a majority of all the votes cast for coun-
! ty seat and cause the same to be certified
and forwarded to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 3. If it shall appear from the
returns of said election that the city of Pla-
cervile 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 prop
erty 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.
SECTION 4. In the event Of removal OF
the county seat from the town of Coloma,
in pursuance of this Act, the Board of Su-
pervisors shall have power, and it shall be
their duty, to levy direct tax upon the
property of said county, ratably as it shall
appear on the assessment roll in per cent
age upon the one hundred dollars, sufficient
ly large 20 ensure nett receipts into the
treasury of said county, of a sum in cash
equal to fifty thousand dollars, to be appro-
priated and expended by and under the di-
rection of the Board of Supervisors of said
county, exclusively for the erection of pub
lie buildings necessary for the holding ot
courts, county officers, and the confinement
Of prisoners.
SECTION 5. When the Board of Super
visors of said County have declared the city
of Placerville to be the county seat of sale
county, the District Court, the County
Court, the Court of Sessions and Probate
Court for said county shall thereafter b(
held at the county seat, and all process
which may at the time of said removal b(
made returnable at Coloma, shall be deem
ed returnable at the city of Placerville.
SECTION 6. No contract for the cree
tion of permanent county buildings shall
be made until after proposals for such con
tract shall have been published by the
Board Of Supervisors of said county, for al
least twenty days in each newspaper print
ed in said county, consenting to publish the
same, which proposals shall state the time
and manner of construction and materia
to be used; and no member of the BoarC
of Supervisors or other county officer shall
be interested in any manner in the con
tracts made.
SECTION I. All acts and parts of acts
conflicting with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.