East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-01-28
Aom,e aNatters.
Eire Proof HnlIdings.

Fire Proof Buildings.
The Board of Superyisorsoe thiscounty,
at their session just closed, passed reso-
luton to submit to vote of the people |
the question of raising, by loan, the sum
Of $4,000, for. the purpose of erecting
fire proof buildings for the county offices.
The question came up on the application
of George +. Neen Fliet, Esq, our Reg
ister OF Deeds, for another safe for the
Registers oliice-thc safe already in that
Office being full and crowded. In con-
sdering and discussing the application,
it appeared, that new safe Of the size
required, would cost six or eight hundred
dollars, and this would be bnt temporary
relief, for in few years another would
I be required, and so on. Besides, IN the
County Clerks office, there has never
been a safe ut all---the records of that
Office, consisting principally of court rec
ords and documents, the loss OF which
would result in vast amount OF further
litigation, loss and inconvenience to par
ties and the public, being kept in com
bustible wooden furniture. The RegIs-
ters office must have vhe further
provision for keeping the accommodating
title books, the loss Of which would put
hundreds of titles in deplorable state Of
} confusion and uncertainty. The Board
finally concluded that it would be better
to erect block of fire proof buildings, es-
, timated to cost $4,000. But, with the
! w.. t..., -. ..I1;.ion 10 State and ennntv
! taxes, they do not propose at present &c
D raise the amount by tax, but to make
J loan sufficient for the purpose, to run
! number of years, on which only the inte
) rest would have to be paid annually. IL
= lis expected that, after while, the safes
! in present use may &c sold for enough t(
0 pav half or more of the loan. The cues
5 ton of making the loan is what the gu
q pervisors have resolved to submit to
Q popular vote.-hateprise. 10
Q This question will come before thu
2 people of this county at the ensuing
g spring elections, and it seems to us tina
A there can be no reasonable objections t.
v authorizing the loan proposed. The i'm
portance Of providing for the socurit.
No from fire of both the court and rea
~ estate records, is a matter too well under
i stood to leave room for argument. In m
3 portion Of the State is real estate chang
y itg hands more rapidly, at present, thai
in Saginaw county, non is there any poin
70 where the court records are of more in
~ portance than here. Some Of the mos
% important suits which have come befor
the Supreme Court, growing out of tn
: immense real estate, numbering and con
IS mcrcial interests Of this Valley, hav
Is originated here, and it is a matter {
. public safety that these records should b
q preserved. Local feeling should by n
"a means be allowed to effect the decision {
"a the people in this case, for all arc alik
= interested, and, to our mind, nothing
Is more fully apparent than the fact that
II is the manifest destiny" of the two cite
u Saginaw City and East Saginaw, o.
80 long, to be united in one--a consummatio
81 which would do more, from the impor
81 anco to be derived from larger popult
- ton, and the unity of effort which woul
l6 result, in advancing our interests at hon
81 and abroad, than any plan which couI
45 be adopted. This may be considered
- gratuitous suggestion, and more import
90 nent than pertinent in this connection
on but that such must be the result, if OF
: people cschew local jealousies, which al
ms Of no possible consequence, and look pc
A. sistently to the main chance" we hay
.cr no doubt. With this view of the que
p iU ton, we are induced to favor the loan, {
y, local as well as on general grounds.