The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1866-04-07

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We take pleasure IN annodncihg to tho
people Of 1IaFdenan county that once more
the law canrbe administered by their SER
wants as the County Court has been fully or
ganized as 10 the days Of yore. On last
Monday tbirtY-oFeq Justices Of the Peace
We're qualified and entered upon the duties
oftheir Office. Heretofore some doubts were
entertained as to t7hether the chairman ana
JUSTICES 9f the quorum, who. were elected at,
tie last January term, could hold4oyer an
deratheir new commissions. To avoid all
difficulty and doubt. an election was held,
which resulted in retaining the present In
cumbeRts in Office, and the quorum court as
heretofore5 stands thrs: John H. Bills, chair
man A. II. Rose and B. b. Fawcett, idsti-
ces The Office of coroner being vacant, J.
H. Groves was put in homihation and duly
elected WIN Nuekolls was elected ranger
and PitserM NJ, .Crawfofd chosen county sur
veyor b Our court adopted, in several in
stanoesJ retEenchInents Of county expenses,
which we deem very eo1nmeBdaBle, AMI
shows chat the Court has an eye to economy,
which, bg-thssby, is. one Of. the essentials of
the times, and in our present impoverished
cohdition7 eaphaticallyi. a stitch ihHime,"
It had, We learn been the custom Of the
Court 70 pay themselves 81 so per day for
holding the quarterly courts, for xIlichpieee.
of 'hfRty'G legislation Dtkeie eas no 1ate
This custom 3 as abolished, thus making a
clear saving to the county Of near $4,000
peElannuW. III he pen dion Of the quorum
was reduced to 81 5osfor the chairman, and
$500 each for his associates; and the az
lowancer to the. chairman as financial agent
of the eeuntylWss ixedlat $50, 00 per oquars
teri which swe 9ar6 glad to Iannodnce,z met
with the honorable chairman 5 approbdtion
The allowance to Revenue Commissioners
had been $39,O0rper distriet,zwhich- was re-
daeedito $4,000 aorBy this most exell-
lent arrangement about one H6uSaItd doll
lars per annum has been, saved to the tar
1ayers of the county, Several dclaims for
appropriations were presented, and subjected
to s lstrictsscrutiny, and in some cases, were
allowed, The prayer of the gentleman who
has been ministering to the wants of the
paupers (of which there are butfew) was
favorably received and justly ordered to be
paid. We may now look for a solvent treas
ury as the fruits of this timely economical
action on the part Of the honorable gentle
men who are now working so industriously
to place US upon a parallel with the even
currents of events that were won't to make
IIardeman county in. by-gone days a land
mark and example, The money saved by
curtailing the expenses. of holding, County
Court will add no little to the sum req uiste
tc build a Court house, which, we are cred
IDLY informed, will be constructed at no dis
tant day. and is to be q handsome and APP
propriate structure though, as yetTit IS not
fully determined where it viii be located,
though of one thing we can rest assured,
that ifit is not built upon the Square. twill
not be the fault Of the present officers whose
duty it is to superintend the selecting. Of a
site and its erection Our property holders
around the Square should look to this at
once, and secure the best bargain they ever
made If the Court house is not built upon
the public Square, property holders viii sus,
tain heavy loss Its rempval to any Other
locality will naturally draw after it other
improvements and in the course of time, q
few years at farthest, almost the entire bus
mess that is now transacted around the lo
in which it should be placed. by all mean,
clear up the rubbish and let US have a struc
ture that will be an ornament to the town
and let it be where it should be-in the cen
tire of the Square.
1t is considered that the President Proc
lamation, which we print in another column
is equivalent to a general amnesty In view
Of this fact, dispatch from New Orleans
States that Mason and Slidell will return t
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