The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-05-11
THOSE BONDS.

The larger Editor Of the Ashland Times,
who does most of JEFF's dirty work,-and
that is the only kind of work he ever has any
hand in,-publishes the following in regard
to the bonds of the would be Probate Judge.
Clerk and Coroner, in the last issue Of the or
gan of h c3ounty Man and Insurance Compa-
ny: "The bonds we're accordingly presen-
ted,fully signed and stamped, and having all
the necessary endorscm ents."
Now, Mr.. OSBORN Knew that that was q
square, barefaced yarn when he wrote it. We
say this, with a desperate attempt at all due
respect for a prominent member of a promi-
nent Church, who always keeps in repair a
regular Sunday face once a week but then,
Sister OSBORN, you know it is an unmitigated
yarn. You know that the law especially re-
quires that bonds of County Officers shall be
examined and approved, and endorsed as ap-
proved and examined by the Prosecuting At
torney,-who is the law officer of the County,
before they can be accepted as legal bonds
by the County Commissioners. You know
that these pretended bonds had no endorse
saent whatever upon them by the Prosecuting
Attorney, and that the statement that they
contained the Unnecessary Endorsements" was
wholly false. You make tbs admission your
self tkat they must ba endorsed as legalin form
by somebody, in youl statement that you got
them endorsed BY one G. w. GEDDEs, before
they were presented to the County Commits
hioners- The law says plainly and directly
that this must be done by the Prosecuting At
torney. Judge GEDDEs had no more business
to stick his name upon the bonds, and the
Commissioners had no more right to pay any
attention to his signature upon them than if
it had been that of the VIC rst lunatic in the Co.
lum5us Asylum. Please tell the community
where Judge GEDDEs gets the authority to
approve the bonds of County Officers? No
such thing is known to the law, and it strikes
US as a very strange act in him. He is Jadge
OF the Court of Common Pleas of Ashland
County. In the course Of time the question
o. the legality of these very bonds might
come before him for decision. Suppose they
should. Judge GEDDEs takes and examines
them. He finds an endorsement upon them
as follows Approved by me, G.. W. GED-
DEs." hat position would it leave him in ?
To pass upon the legality of a paper that he
had decided to be all right a lorg time before.
Is that the usual plan of judicial proceeding =?
Why, Judge GEDDEs might as well go to prac-
ticing law before Justices of the Peace and
then appeal his cases to his OWN court. His
client, of course, would be all right until it
went to a higher Court. With all due respect
to Judge GEDDEs, we must say that thisa act
looks as if he were attempting to play the part
of either DoEsT1CKs or his famous friend.
The bonds must be approved and endorsed
by The Prosecuting Attorney. They are rot
legal bonds uHtil this is dono. The pretend
ed bonds of INGMUND, BARBER and YER
MILYA have not been so endorsed and hence
the Commissioners could do nothing in regard
to then. The Prosecutor has endorsed one
set Of bonds for the present term of these
same officers. We believe he has no right to
endorse another set. If he has, and it be mis-
duty to do so, the claimants have their legal
remedy. If the bonds are worthless or if
there be any question about their validity
that also can be settled by due course of law.
But don't lie go like the deuce by saying that
these had "the necessary endorsements."-
You will soon get,-if you keep on improving
pretty rapidly,-as good on the yarn as JEFF
himself, and if You-erc not careful you may
cetLef5rs a Grand Jury and have to srrear
that you he'd. Be a little more careful, Sister
Nancy.
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