The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-03-21
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
County Organization.
ARTICLE

! As passed in Comnillee VI The Whole March
9Th, 1872
| The voters Of each county shall elect
"a Surveyor Of Lands. Prosecuting Az
toruey. a Sheriff aud an Assessor. who
shall bald their respective offices TOR the
term offour years
2 There shall also DO elected 10 each
district Of the county. by the voters there.
of, one Constable, and il tho population
exceed fifteen hundred. two Constablcs,
whose term Of Office shall be four years,
and whose powers as such shall extend
,hroughou, their county. The Assessor
shall, with the advice aud consent OF the
Court Of Justice. have the power to ap-
mint one or more assistants Coroners.
Oyersoers Of the Poor. and Surveyors Of
Road, shall disappointed by the Court Of
Justices. The foregoing officers except
the Prosecuting Attorney, shall reside ID
the county aud district for wbicy they shall
be respectively elected. \" .e',s
3 The same person shall not be elected
sheriff for two consecutive terms. nor shall
any person who acted as his deputy, be
elected successor, to such Sheriff; nor shall
any Sheriff act as deputy Of his successor.
but the retiring Sheriff shall finish oil bus
mess remaining in his hands at the expire
alton Of his term. for which purpose bis
commission and official bond shall remain
in force. Thedu,ies Of the office fShcrif
shall be performed BY him in person, or
under his superin'cndence Nor shall he
during his term Of service, or within one
year thereafter be eligible to any other
office
4 The Presiding Justice and Justices
Of the Peace, Sherffs, Prosecuting Attor.
ueys. Clerks Of the Circuit and County
Courts, and all other county officers shall
be subject for malfeasance, or villful neg
lect Of official duty, and upon conviction
thereof their Offices shall become vacant,
5 The Legislature shall provide for
commissioning such Of the offices herein
mentioned, rs they may deem, proper not
provided for in this constitution, aud may
require any class Of them to give bond with
security for the faithful discharge Of the
du'ies Of their respective Offices They
shall further provide for the compensation,
the duties and responsibilities Of such
officers. nnd may provide for the appoint
1nent Of deputies aud assistants BY general
laws.
! 6 The President Of the county court,
and every Justice and constables shall be
a conservator ofpcace throughout bis coun-
~ .
7. No new county shall be formed 10
this State, With an area Of less than four
hundred square miles; nor with q popu)a'
ton Of less than six Thousand, nor sliaiEa any
county from which q new county OF part
thereof DO taken be redaced IN aseas
nur hundred square miles, rim popula.
tim below six thousand Nor shall any
new county be formed without the consent
Of the majority Of the voters of the coun-
ties, out Of which such new county is to be
formed
Mr.. Justice Davis, the candidate Of the
Labor Reformers, is the Justice Of the
Supreme Court Of the United States who
delivered the opinion Of that tribunal op-
ening the doors Of the Ohio peuitcntiary to
L. P. Nlilligan. Of Indiana, vrongfully
imprisoned, under sentence for lite BY a
military court,martial 10 delivering the
opinion Of the Court Justice Davis said:
The Constitution Of the United States
is law for rulers and people equally in
war aud in peace. and covers with the
shield Of it's protection all classes Of men.
ut all times and under all circumstances,
No doctrine involving more parnicious CON.
sequences was ever invented by the wit Of
man tia, any of its provisions can be sus.
pended during any Of the exlgencies Of
government Such q doctrine leads di
rectly to anarchy or dcspotism, but the
theory Of necessity on which it is based is
false. for the government within the Con.
stitution has all the powers granted to it
which are necessary to preserve its exist.
ence, and has been happily proved by the
result of the great effort to throw of its
Just authority"
From Grant Republican, like Senator
Carpenter, the following, uttered in a
speech III the Senate, on an appropriation
for the Bureau OF Education. will be &c.
ceptcd as a remarkable confession:
1--WE are sensihly travelling said he.
towards concentration Of power III the
Federal Government. aud It would be we'll
to stop and look around US aud ask what
authority we have to establish this Bureau
of Education. We have Bureau of Ag.
riculure What more authority have we
to establish either Of these Bureaus than to
establish Bureau Of Boats and Shoes-a
Bureau of Merchandise, or Of silk goods,
or Of any other industry in the cnnntry?-