Butte record. (Bidwell, Butte County, Cal.) 1853-1858, 1857-05-16

may understand the truth of the matter
that we should record at the present time,
the facts of the case presented
1t has been charged through the organ Of
our county Judge that the Record had no au
thority to publish the notices of the removal
Courts from Bidwell and that they were over
charged. Both of these assertions are I'M
qali6edly false no matter who asserts them
The Record had the authority of Judge
Daingerfeld for publishing the notice of
the removal of the District Court, and the
authority of Judge Lewis, attested by the
County Clerk, for publishing the notices eff
removal Of the Probate Court, the Court of
Sessions, and the County Court. III order
that there need be no doubt of this, we have
copied the following order from the records
of the Court of Sessions attested by the hand
and seal of the County Clerk. The Records
of the Probat Court, contain similar or
der, and so does the Records of the Co unity
Court. We might publish the whole of
them, but have thought that one would be
sufficient to satisfy the public that we had
not pilfered the notices from the office for
the purpose of trumping up claim against
the County Here is the order of the Court
of Sessions.
Now this day it appearing to my satisfac-
ton, as presiding Judge of the Court OF
Sessions, in and for Butte County
that the Board of Supervisors in, ..and
for said County, did. on the twenty
fourth day of September, A. D. one thou
sand eight hundred aud fifty six, declare
Oroville TO be the County Seat of Butte
County from and after the said twenty
fourth day of September, A. d 1856, in
purruance of on Act entitled an Act to
change and fix the County seat of Butte
County, approved March 10th 1856, aud it
further appearing to my satisfaction that
the present buildings in which the said
Court has been held, and IN which the rec
ords have been kept in the town of Bidwell
are unsafe as place of depositing SAID rec
ords, and that the same is liable to destruc
ton by fire, by reason of their being con
structed entirely of wood And it further
| appearing, that there is no building in the
toAn OF Bidwell, suitable for holding the
ttFlnS Vi WIS OOuits u cditlt http us
Records from fire or other calamity, and it
appearing that the town of Oroviile is a fit
place to hold the terms of this Court, aud
that commodious and safe brick buildn 2
in said town has been rendered the County
as County buildings
1t is therefore ordered, adjuiged and de-
creed, that the clerk of the Court of Ses-
sions, in and for Butte County. forthwith re-
oA, l.. IL
Orovile, in TIE building selected by the said
Board o. Supervisors as County buildings,
Iii that he do and transact the business Of
his said Office at the town of 0royiile, as the
County Seat of Butte County.
And it is further ordered, that The terms
of said Court, from and after the snid TWEEN
ty fourth day of September, A D. 1856. be
held at the said town of 0roville until other
wise ordered
And it is further ordered that the clerk
of the said Court of Sessions, in and for
Butte Coun y, issue an order under the
seal Of said Court. in conformity with this
order.
find that the same be published in the
DAILY Butte Record, a paper published IN
the fotcn Of Or0rtile, for the space Of forty
days from the date hereof
Given under my hand this Oath day OF
September, a D 1855
JOS. Z N LEWIS.
Presiding Judge of Conrt.of Sessions
.fttest, the foregoing true copy from the
Record of the Court Of Sessions in and for
But County.
I SEAL Witness my hand and seal Of
(O~~ said Court this May Is. 1857.
MILES CHAPLIN, Crk
Court of Sessions
In accordance with this order and similar
ones in the other courts of the county over
the Signature of Judge Lewis, the County
Clerk furnished US with attested copies for
publication. and We complied with the order
of the different courts and published them
for forty days" There were four of these
notices and as furnished us by the clerk
made five squares of ten lines each, and
charged according to the advertised terms at
the head of our paper, (and these terms are
still adhered te for legal advertising
amounted to 1907 so each, and in the aggre-
gate amounted to 1920 for the forty inser
tious ordered. This bill was made out,
certified to, and presented to the Board Of
Supervisors, where it met the opposition OF
Judge Lewis, although he hod repeatedly
allowed our printing accounts while the
Court OF Sessions had charge of the affairs
of the county, which were charged at the
same rates, never reducing but one account
and that only from SlS4 to $50, as he in
formed as at the time, merely to make it
even change.
The assertion that we had agreed to do
this description of printing at State Priu-
ting prices, is false in ever particular We
had agreed to do the printing of the Board
of Supervisors at those rates, and we still
adhere to the terms of our agreement The
Board had given US to understand that we
had the right to charge our advertised terms
for advertisements ordered published, by the
Courts, by paying oul account for advertise
ing Sheriff. sale, when he County was a
party. All legal advertiseme.' IT'S have been
uniformly charged at advertised rates, and
the printing of the Board of Supervisors, at
the rates agreed upon with them.
The attention of Judge Lewis was culled
to these notices when they first appeared in
the Record, and to the fact that they
world make large bill. and still he took no
steps to have the notices reduced in length
or to lessen the time of their publication
He permitted them to be published for the
length of time ordered, and then opposed
the payment of the bill. The Record had
opposed in the meantime the proposition
that the county should pay his ciicdts
$4,000 for their claim to the public square
upon which the County huildinrs are incat. I'd