The Empire County argus., 1856-04-26
An Act entitled Act o 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, 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 Placervile.
The ballots used at said election shall be written or
printed and shall read thus: ''For County Seat,
Coloma )" or, "For County Seat Placerville." The
Board of Supervisors 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 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: g. 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 Placervlle, until the Court House and
other buildings shall be erected
Sec. 4. In the event of removal of the County
Seat from the town of Cooma, in pursuance of this
Act, the Board of Supervisors shall have power,
and 1t shall be their duty to levy direct tax upon
the property of said County rataby 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
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appropriated and expended by and under the direc-
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. 5. When the Board of Supervisors of said
County have declared the city of PacerviIle 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 returnabe at the city of
Placerville
Sec. b. 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 consentng to publish the same, which
proposals shall state the time and manner of con-
Der 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
BY-AND-By, in after years, when the memory of
any American repudiation shall have been forgot
ten, and even Sydney Smiths sharp-shooting be
remembered no more, some reader of ''Harpe,n
may run his eye over the subjoned Run upon a
Western Bank" and while he laughs ready to
split his sdes' wonder ''if such things could have
been in those days"
Can you give me specie for this %
"Non
"Sight-or short time--or Eastern exchange %
"No!n
What can you give me 2"
"Nothing"
Nothing Whyr
"You are making "A rum upon our instituton--a
run, Sir. This species of presentation we are
bound to resist You are trying to break US, Sir.
to make us stop payment, Sir. But you can't do it,
Sir"
but haren't you stopped payment, when you re-
fuse to redeem q
"No, Sir. Ours is stock institution Your ulti-
nate security, Sir, is deposited with the auditor
We can't break, Sir--we can't stop payment"
"But have you no specie on hand o.
"Yes, Sir, and we are bound to keep it on hand ;
he law obhgeS us to keep twelve and a half per
cent. of specie on hand. If we paid it ont every
ime one of you fellows calls, how could we keep
t on hand according to law? We should be in
pretty box"
Then | shall proceed to have the note pro-
ested"
'Very well, Sir; you will find a notary-publc at
------, provided he is at home. He lives about
me hundred and forty miles from here. But you'd
better go home, Sir, and rely upon yonr ultimate
security. We can't pay specie; find it won't do
'ut you are ultimately secure"
The ultimate security" is dsregarded, the note
S protested without regard to EXPENSE and the
rotary directed to prosecute the bill of the squash
Sank at Lost Prairie to collection as soon as possi-
'le 'How long asks the holder, will it be be-
ore can expect to realize upon the ultimate secu-
titles of the institution? Thirty days is it not 7"
"Not quite as soon as that, Sir. | shall forth
With give notice to the officers of the Squash Bank
f they pay no attention to it, shall offer its secu-
tiles in my hands for sale; but in discharging my
uty to all the creditors of the institution | Shall
o proceed to offer any of its assets in this market
Until after at least ninety days notice in New York
london, and Paris, to insure the largest and
est prices for the securities, and not then if, in
ny opinion, the ultimate interests of all concerned
will be promoted by further extension! Hem"
But my dear Sir, how long will it be before
hall be able to realize upon my demand !'
10 this pregnant question the notary replies,
hat he couldn't say, indeed it depends somewhat
pom the fate of the war in Europe--even now
1ore doubtful than ever. Still, you can rely upon
our ultimate security
"Uhimate security but II want my moneyn
''Oh, ay, ah that's different thing"
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