Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-03
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to sell the first opportunity, the raising
Of money by contribution or subscription
for the purpose of erecting buildings for
county. will be a very slow and tire
some process. No provision has been
made for the purpose Of paying the or
ders.. Should the judges drawfon the.
treasury, not cent has been provided
to meet these obligations should the vot-
ers decide to change the shire.
Now what would be the course of these
orders; would they not go begging for
buyers, and who would pay more than
fifty cents on the dollar for these papers
when it is known that no tax can be as
sessed to pay them until 1875, and no
certainty of it then? Are the county
Judges supposed to be able to build and
complete these buildings, and pay for all
the labor and materials used in their
construction in orders drawn upon the
county treasury? Can they find men
who will contract to do this work and
take orders for their pay? Will not
contractors put the price EofS their labor
and materialssat such figures as will give
them remunerative prices for what they
do? Now, who is to pay for all these
discounts and shaves Is it the men
who want the shire removed, or is it the
honest, hardworking farmer and mechan-
sic, who. earn by honest labor their sub
sistence? What do these agitators care
4 for the burdens of taxation which this
proposed change will put on to the poor,
laboring men? Do the people of Or
leans wish to have county buildings erect
ed so cheap that they will be a laughing
stock at first. and a continual bill of ex-
pense forever after? What are the rea-
sons urged for a change of shire ? Ger
tainly not that the county is in need of
new buildings, which they are not. all
being nearly new and in good state of
preservation and thorough repair. The
? court room has been pronounced, by judg-
. es who have held courts init, to be one
of the most convenient in tie state and
eminent advocates have always been en-
thusiastic in expressing their minds as
) to the ease and freedom that they could
, speak and be heard in that room. The
t clerks and probate offices, as we'll as the
jury rooms, are large and convenient,
5 and in fact the building is all that the
7 wants of the county require. The jail
is new, and one of the best of the
} kind in the state perfectly safe, and Sc
: constructed and arranged that the SAM
tary condition of the prisoners is, Away;
\ of the highestorder.9 The jail house ant
t other buildings are nearly new and al
e in good repair and condition. Thes'
t buildings will be good for the next thir
: ty years without other expense than oc
f casional repairs for keeping pace will
: the actual wear of use and weather.
e it wisdom for the people of Orleans coun
! ty to throw away or abandon thi
e property which is good for all their use
/ for long series of years burden then,
y selves with taxes compel a very respect
l. able portionsof the towns to go to almos
+ theuextreme northern limit of the count
z? to attend the courts, merely to satisfy
d few ,practicing attorneys who are locates
Il at Newport, and occasionallyv-one VIII
-? may have business at our courts from a
IT. adjoining county? Who is to be bene
IS fitted by the proposed change? Surel
: not the great mass of the people; only
n fewaindividuals-and they perfectly wi
II ling that the many should be discommod
= ed for the purpose of accommodating th
e few. There is no point in the county {
;e Orleans where all can be convened S
e easy as at Irasburgh or Barton Landing
re which last mentioned place is only fol-
l. miles from the court house, and notwitl
l. standing the fact of it's being one of I'll
t. most important places upon the who
&c line of the Passumpsic railroad, it b;
n no resident attorney, and is not in IL
y, field for the county shire. If the built
G. ings were in bad state ofrepair,
s. they would have to be rebuilt, the
ne would be more sense in considering IL
re question of removal than now. when e.
le erything in and about them is in a fiji
40 state of preservation,
er Should the legal voters decide
m change the shire, those towns in Il
ut south part of the county would give Il
ge legislature no peace until they were S
e, to other counties where they could
ny better accommodated than at Newpol
of The towns of Greensboro and Westmo
ay would go to Caledonia county as soon
er they could get there. Craftsbury al
Sc Lowell would knock at the door of l.
n noble, which would take three thousa1
MS seven hundred and eleven from our po
lis ulation; and if the people in the tow
es of Albany, Glover and Barton could ha
n their choice, Albany would go wi
nd Craftsbury and Lowell, and Glover al
Mt Barton with Greensboro and Westmol
he which would take out eight thousand
Id our population and the loss on grand Ii
ry would be greater in proportion. T
Id reasons why Glover, Barton and Yves
he more Wonld nrefer to be incornorat