The Placer herald., 1857-01-10

Make him responsible for his ignorance
feeling, cupidity &c. besides place
it in the power of those who manage the
financial affairs of the county to discharge
him and you will secure the services of
man whose best interest lies in punctualy
and faithfully discharging all this work.
The eighth section of the declaration ofrights
makes a grand jury necessary.
1t is true, you may declare that the jury
shall consist of three citizens instead OF
twenty four; but that is complete dodge
of the spirit Of the law.
The judicial system, as we have before
remarked, requires most thorough re-or-
ganization. The Supreme tribunal instead of
being composed of three memoirs, should
be as many as FIVE, and for this purpose the
state should be districted so that all interests,
mining, agricultural, and commercial, shall
be properly represented in that body.
The system Of District Courts with their
terms for business, are cumbersome and un-
suited to our wants The channels to the
settlement Of mooted questions between citi-
zens, in order to do justice, should be open,
and the solution be arrived at as speedily as
the nature of the case will permit. If a
man is entitled to a thousand dollars, it
makes a very great difference to him wheth
er he will receive it in six weeks after the
institution of suit, or though the tricks of
counsel assisted by the lax conscience Of his
debtor, he is didded out Of the receipt of it
until starvation stares him in the face.
These inconvenience are not felt and
properly appreciated in the cities where
one term of the Court runs into another;
but to those in the country Districts it is a
matter of serious complaint. The Constitu
ton provides for both judges and Districts,
and in our opinion both should be done
away with. Each county is now obliged to
pay county Judge, and no good reason
that we are aware Of exists, why that Office
should not do the business now deyolving
upon the District Judge. If the business Of
the county should prove too much for one,
Court as in the cities and more populous
counties, then let the Legislature create
another
Our idea of terms, in our courts, is deri
we'd from an early period in the English his
tory of courts, when the King himself sat
upon the bench; and was obliged to divide
his time into terms, in order to pass round the
kingdom. There is no such necessity here,
and these county Judges should keep their
courts constantly open, as the Justices
court is now held.
The County Court and Court of Sessions,
now provided for in the Constitution, should
be abolished and their business transferred
to the court suggested. a Surrogate should
be elected, whose compensation should be
rived from a percentage arising upon the
amount of business by him transacted. This
duty could be easily done by any bu
siness man, at his office, without surround
ing so plain a transaction with the pagentry
and circumstance Of court. These alter
atons it strikes us are required for the wei
fare of the people Of this State; financially
and morally.
They are certainly great innovations upon
our present system, and such as may appear
too radical at first blush We ask for our
suggestions a fair consideration, and he
who can suggest a better system of govern
ment will confer upon us favor as well as
the rest of the people There are excellent
maxims contained in our present constitution,
provisions securing the citizens from imposi-
tons by banks and corporations, which no
one should wish strken out, and if the
alterations we have mentioned can be made
without a convention, we are not particular
as to how it shall be done.
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