Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-19
A. New County.

A mesting was held at Waterbury on Satur- day evening to consider the subject of applying
 for the formation of new County along the
 Naugatuc Valley, to be taken principally from
 Litchfeld and New Haven If we are rightly
 informed, the plan is to take the eastern towns of Itchfeld County, and Wolcott, Waterbury
 Naugatuc and Middlebury, of New Haven Co. with, perhaps, Hartland, Burlington and Bris tol, of Hartford County, thus creating Coun
 ty of about fourteen or fifteen towns, all on ol near the Naugatuc Railroad As the proposed County has no particular center of trade or in
 tercourse, it is designed that two shire towns
 should be created, Waterbury and Winsted This is the plan as we have heard it; whether it is the one which will be finally agreed upon
 we do not know. The County thus formed Will
 he long and very narrow one and will contain
 population of some so0Oo, taken pfnclpaiiy from Litchfeld County. ..-..
 Aside from the very general indisposition to
 meddle with the County limits of our State, we
 confess we do not see how the gentlemen con- cerned in this project can encourage themselves much with the hope of success. What is the object of County organization? Merely to set convenient bounds within which the people may be united for the purpose of the admins
 tration of the law. There are no duties of gov ernment or legislation to be performed County
 wise the County divisions are merely with ref
 erence to the number of Courts necessary and convenient for the transaction of legal business, and unless the County limits are so extensive as to make it matter of great inconvenience and expense to get parties and witnesses to Court there can be no objection to them. It is true. also, that the fact of the Courts of any County being so ovcrburdened with business that there is not time to try it's cases expeditiously, may be good reason either for increasing the number of Counties, or the number of Judges and if new Counties are to be created, they should evi- dently be taken from those in which the busi- ness is the greatest and the most delayed. We believe it is not claimed that the Court of Litch- field County is thus encumbered. As for the convenience and facility of access to the shire town, which is the only other substantial dues tion in the case we are not particularly informed. except as we observe on the map that persons travelling to and from either of the proposed shire towns of the County, would ress close by the present shire of Litchfeld County; indeed, through it's very territory, in going up and down the Naugatuc Railroad.
 We are not in favor of breaking up our Coun- Ey lines unless there is some strong reason for it. It would be we'll if it were possible, to have T new division of Counties all through the State. 30 as to equalize the population. But that hardly seems feasible. The addition of middle Coun- ty, and especially in the portion of the State where it is proposed would work embarrass. ments in the construction of our Congressional Districts, by reason of the much greater inequal- ity which would be rendered necessary. It would add to the number of Courts without helping the expedition of business. It would add to the namber of jai]s and the consequent expense to to State of prisoners, fees, &c., and it would add to the machinery quite too much-Nesc Haren Journal.