The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-07-25

tors, or even il she should repudiatc the
payment Of the whole Of it.
When il is remembered that on the first
Of January, 1872, this debt amounted to
at least 6fty.one million Of dollars, and
that.yirginiA claims she has the right to
charge West Virginia with the payment Of
one full third oft Tor seventeen millions
of do!lars) before she pays her creditors or
even whether she pays or rcpudiu's, the
tp1oprie,y of emitting this section aud thus
leaving her to resort to her legal reme-
dies, il she has any, cannot bc doubted by
the taxpayers Of West Virginia. The
new Constitution secures The integrity and
existence Of West Virginia as a separate
State in the Union, by requiring the con,
sent Of majority Of the qualified voters Of
the State, before any additional territory
can be annexed to, or admitted INTO b.,
|, sccureslhc independence oftho judiciary,
by removing the Judges from the control
Of the Legislature SO TINT their judicial
opinions in the futuec, upon Constitutional
questions, will no longer be the mere reflex
of the opinions of partisan Legislative
majority. 1t tprohib's,hc Legislature from
passing local or special bills in all cases
where general bill can bc passed to ac.
complish the same object; thus all grants
of special privileges and advantages to Iav,
orcd parties, will be forever arrested.
Tie Governor being obliged to approve
and sign every bill before it can become
a law, will, to a very great extent, be held
rcponsiblc for the character and cous,itu-
tonaliy of the laws !
The Offices of Supervisors and their
clerks will be abolished. Asaiudicia| and
fiscal tribunal the Board oiSupcnisorshns
been found, by experience, to be inefficient
and expensive As an auditing and levy
ing board it has proved to be reckless and
ex,ravagant.
The existing judicial system has been
found to be inadequate to hear and deter.
mine the constantly increasing nomber Of
suits. The necessity for the creation Of
some inferior Court, between tho Circuit
| Courts aud justices, in which tie smaller
controversies could be chcapIy and quick,
determined, was universally admitted =
The expense incurred by sutors, by the
unavoidable delays in the Circuit Courts,
we're ruinous A new County Court, to
supply this want, and take the place Of
the Board of Supervisors is created BY
the new Constitution. 1t is so nearly like
our former County Court, that it will be
familiar in its important features, to all
our people. Ils,jurisdictiou is the same as
| that Of tho old County Court. 1t can bold
four terms a year for tile trial of causes, at
the expense Of $40 per day, and no more.
1t may hold.lwo other terms each year, for
the purpose laying the county levy, &c,
at which all the justices may sit, but at
which only majority of them is required
10 sit to transact business. The juris-
dic,ion of Justices, under the new Consti.
tuition, will be the same as under The pres
ent Constitution, except that in all cases
where the subject in controversy exceeds
$40 the defendant, before trial. can have
the case certified to the County Court and
the Justice will hold their Offices for the
term of four years, as Justices now do.
The annual cost of the County Court
will be much less than that of the Super
yisors and their clerk. Take the two fol-
lowing examples, viz: Barbour county
who sat 1871 days from January 1st, 1864,
to January lst. 1872, period of eight
years, expended as follows For pay and
mileage Of supervisors $2,3327S; for
clerk hire for the same time, sl563 60;
total for 173 days, s392G 53, which was
an average yearly expense Of S490 50 and
daily expense Of clerk hire Of Sll.GS.-
Upshur county having only six supervisors,
during the same period, expended for pay
meut and mileage, S26l5,6S, and for clerk
hire s2505.0O, making a total Of five
thousand ono hundred and twenty dollars
and sixty eight cents or on average yearly
cost ofsix hundred and forty dollars and
eight cents. The annual cost ofthe Couu-
ty Courts in said counties will be as fol-
lows: In Barbour county, four terms of
six days each, at ten dollars per day, two
hundred and forty dollars; two terms, one
day each, IA Justices, and President Of
said Court, ninety two dollars. being to-
tai expenses for one year Of three hundred
and thirty two dollars, an annual sav-
ing of one hundred and fifty eight dollars
and eighty two cents. In Upshur county,
four terms Of six days each two hundred
and forty dollars; two terms Of one day
each, with l2 Justices and President Of
Court, at futher cost Of eighty dollars
being a total of three hundred and twenty
dollars for one year, and an annual saving
ofthree hundred aud twenty dollars and
eight cents. Taking these two counties to.
getbcr they show an average annual saving
in each county of two hundred and thirty
nire dollars and forty-fve cents over the
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