Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-12-04
THE COUNTY PRINTING.

the Legislature will again meet to re-
sume its duties. when no doubt the usual
number Of local and private bills will be
presented to that body, and thef- enact
menfSintoslaws be urged by the parties
interested in their passage. The people
of Juniaia county should and will claim
a small share of its attention. The re
peal of the laws in relation to the public
printing aud legal advertising will be
prayed for They have done this twice
before. hut their petitions were not heed
ed. Twice have they aske,l for the re-
peal of the act Of 9TH of April. 1867,
believing it to be unjust and burthen
some. That act required the County
Commissioners tn publish, matter as legal
advertisements. to be prid for out of The
County Treasury. that never had been
by law required to be published before
its passage. This they were required to
do in three newspapers having the largest
circulation, and all other printing, such
blanks. &C.. was to be divided equally
between these three papers. Its object
evidently was to increase the patronage
of the County Commissioners and to
coutrol them in the bestowal Of it. 1t
mel with general dirfavor. The people
did not wish to be taxed thousand and
more dollars year merely fer the pur-
pose of keeping up somebody's "organ."
They sent in petitions numerously signed
by our taxpayers without regard to par
ty, and asked their Senator and Repre-
sentaiives to have the law repealed in
1871 The Honorable~Srnator had the
law promptly repealed in the Senate. bu:
our very honest, faithful! and energetic
Representative permitted 1t to die in the
House. Again at the session of 1872 its
repeal was asked for. Soon the people
were informed that the law had been re-
pealed, aud they were content, until they
found out that they had been grossly i'm
posed upon and betrayed by their repre-
sentaiives. The repeating act. az it was
called, was approved March 7. 1872. but
it does not repeal the act of 1871 except
only in so far as it requires the printing
to be done in two newspapers instead of
three, as required by the act of 1871.
The papers are to be Zone of each rep
resenriug the leading political parties"
aud the County Commissioners are crea-
ted into kind of Court to sit in judg
ment upon and determine what are the
leading political parties and which of
the county papers shall do the printing
and l~gal advertising. The judges of
the courts and all the county officers are
expected to abide by and be governed by
their decision. The law is most upwise,
unjust and oppressive 1t attempts to
take away the discretion and judgment
of the Judges of our Orphan Court. in
whose custody the law has long confded
the care and management of the estates
of orphans and minors, and who had the
right to direct whether much of the ad-
vertising necessary to be done in the set
ilement of the estates of decedenls
should be done in one or more than one
newspaper. Frequently one answered
the purpose as well as two, and thus an
item of expense was saved to the estate.
But this act requires everything to be
published in two papers, whether in the
judgment of the Court it is necessary or
not. 1t requires Executors, Admins
traitors, Guardians, and Trus ees to ad- |
vel :ise everything in these two papers
which the County Commissioners have
named, and thus the estates of widows
and orphans are made to pay tribute
to the chosen "organ's" Their estates
are taxed for political purposes
They are robbed of their patrimony by
law. They are required to do that from
which they derive no benefit No one
can tell how much money is thus extort-
ed from the people annually. Repeal
,b;s l,,y "a l,ol,ol, r.
saved to The taxpayers on ac-
count of the public printing alone. One
tenth of every dollar of county taxes
paid goes to keep up these organs. It is
10 the interest of every voter and every
taxpayer in the county to sign and cir
,ulate petitions asking for it's repeal.-
Let the people organize for this purpose
Without regard to party. Let the peti-
ions be all collected and forwarded at
'nce. They should be circulated in
very borough and township Let there
We clean sweep, and see if our Sena-
or and Representative will again defy
he will of their constituents. or impose
lpon them by pretending to repeal these !
avs and at the same time pass sub.
titute more iniqui,ous in its character ,
han the one they ask to be repealed i
let them understand that The people re- i
,uire of them honesty and fair dealing,
nd that they will be held to a strict ac ,
cunt.
OoNGREss convened on Monday Res
lution's of respect to the memory of