The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-29


and said building hired of said Chic
by said Board of Supervisors, fo
the period of one year from tn
time that the same should be com
plctcd and ready for occupancy
That at the time Of the meeting q
said Board and the passage of sal,
resolution, said building was no
completed, and, therefore, said Boar,
of Supervisors being about to ad
journ, appointed committee O
four persons, who are named in sal,
information, and by resolution au
thorized and directed said commit
tee, the same consisting ofthe Clerk
Treasurer, Sheriff and Judge o
Probate ofsaid county, who are eacl
and all of them required by law t,
hold their Offices at the county sea
of said county, to proceed to re
move the county property and thci
offices to Baldwin, as soon as tn,
building procured should be so fal
completed as to be suitable for oc
cupancy.
"Said defendants farther answer
ing, say, the said Board of Super.
visors, on information aad belief
and said Isaac Grant, positively
that said building, so as aforesaid
hired by said Board, of said Chas
Chick, was ready and fit for occu.
pancy ON the 28th day of April
1875, and thereupon said Isaac
Grant and the County Treasurer Of
said county, proceeded to remove
their Offices and the property be.
longing to the same to said build
ing, as required by law and by the
resolution of the Board of Super
visors of said county; and that saN
Treasurer and Sheriff still hold thci,
Offices at said village of Baldwin, in
said building, as aforesaid provided
by said Board for that purpose, land
said County Treasurer has there
under his charge, the safe belong
ing to said county, and a part OF
the records of the Offices of County
Clerk and Register of Deeds and of
the Judge of Probate of said coun-
ty, which were left by said officers
in said safe, and necessarily moved
with said safe when that was moved
and placed in the office of said coun-
ty Treasurer, in said building at
Baldwin aforesaid, the county seat
of said county. And these dcpo-
ncnts had we'll hoped that said Au-
gustus Towner, Clerk ard Register
of Deeds, and James nj. Foster,
Judge of Probate of said county,
would have performed the duties
incumbent on them by virtue of
their respective Offices, and have
removed their Offices to the place
provided therefor by the defendants,
the Board of Supervisors of Lake
county aforesaid. But now, so may
it be that they have, on various ex-
cuscs, neglected and refused to per-
form this clear duty resting upon
them, and the said James NJ. Foster
has procured the causeless and
shamelcssly false information filed
in this cause to be filed for the pur-
pose of harassing and annoying
these defendants, and putting the
County of Lake to great expense,
if so be that he may for a little
longer keep the county seat at Chase,
where he has property interests.
"Thcsc defendants further OK
prcssly aver that the step taken by
them to pro cure said building in
Baldwin were completed and were
and and are all legal and proper,
and all the steps necessary for the
complete removal of said county
scat to Baldwin.
"And as to the allegations of said
informant, as to alleged illegal votes
in the township of Pleasant Plains,
defendants deny on information and
belief that the Board of Registra-
ton of Pleasant Plains, on or about
the 1st day of April, 1875, or at
any other time, fraudulently regis
tered the names of any persons as
voters in said township, or regis
tered the names of any persons as
voters in said township, save and
except those who were lawfully
qualified voters of said township.
And that all the allegations to the
contrary in said information, arc
wilful and false fabrications. And,
in like manner, deny that
the inspectors of election in and for |
said township of Pleasant Plains,
knowingly, wilfully, fraudulcntly, |
Or illegally permitted any person
Or persons, whether the ones spc-
officially named in said information,
Dr. others not named, who were ille-
gal voters, to cast any votes at said
election, and further allege that at
said election in said township of
Pleasant Plains no illegal votes were
cast in favor of the removal of said
seat. These defendants
make the above statements as to
he vote of Pleasant Plains, upon
he information of VIM. Wood, who
s one of the members of said Board
If Supervisors, and who, answering
,pon this point only, says that he
$ now and was during the year 1874,
lfter the election in April of that
year, Supervisor of said township,
md rs such,a member of the Board
If Registration and of the Board of
inspectors of elections of said town.