The Shasta courier., 1858-04-10
Division of County Offices.

The bill introduced by our very able and in
dustrious Assemblyman, Hon. Charles r. Street,
entitled 'An act to separate the Offices of County
Recorder, County Auditor, and Clerk of the
Probate Court, from the Office of County Clerk
in the County of Shasta" passed both houses,
without the slightest alteration, and received the
approval of the Governor on the 31st March.
The bill introduced by the same gentleman,
entitled "An act to separate the office of Collec-
tor of Taxes from the Office of sheriff in the
County of Shasta" also, passed both branches
of the Legislature, on the Both March, and re-
ceived the approval of the Governor. As ap-
proved, it is an exact copy of the bill as intro
duced, with the exception of the third section,
which now reads &C follows:
SEC. 3. The Collector of Taxes elected under
the provisions of this Act shall collect all State
and county taxes, all foreign miners licenses
taxes, and all kinds of public dues which, BY
law, shall be required to be collected, except
poll taxes, on the first Monday in October, A. D.
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by
the Sheriff of said county; and all duties and
liabilities imposed by law upon the said Sheriff
in the collection of said taxes and public dues
shall attach to the Office hereby created and all
authority and power possessed by said Sheriff
for the enforcement of the said collections is
conferred upon said Collector and the said Col
lector elected under the provisions OF .nis XcI
shall qualify for his said Office and shall give
such bond or bonds as shall be by law required
to be given by the said Sheriff for like response
bility.
| The original copies of both of these laws were
published in the Courier of March 9Th As they
were enacted, word for word as they were in
the original, with tie exception of the section
above qnoted, we do not deem it necessary tc
publish them in full at present.
| Neither law goes into effect until the first
Monday in October of the year 1859, and Of
course cannot affect the present incumbents
ELECTION FRAUDS IN KAysAs-The election
frauds in Kansas, at the 4th of January election
for State officers and members of the Lecisla.
ture, appears to have been almost as bad as
those perpetrated in Ell Dorado Mt the election
on the County-seat question. At the last ac-
counts, committee to investigate the said
frauds were hard at work, and some beautiful
expositions had been made. Shawnee precinct
Teturneu over JOU votes. y. Z. GOdfray, one O
the clerks of election there, was examined uu.
der oath, and after being assured that he should
be protected back to his home gave full his.
tory of the affair. According to the Cincinnati
Gazette-he swore that there were but about
one hundred and sixty-three honest votes polled
The polls closed at o'clock P NJ Early the
next morning he and the other clerk went over
to Westport, No., and there, in Col Boone's
store, added several hundred names to those OF
the bona tide voters. The names were read to
them from some list, by a son of Rev. atom
Johnson" The Judges certificates (which had
been made out on separate sheets of paper
were pasted at the foot of these bogus returns,
and they were then sent to Calhoun The Judges
corroborated this testimony fully, and swore
that several hundred names had been added to
the returns, after the polls were closed and they
had made out their certificates