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

to the legality of the vote by whic
the County Seat of Lake county wa
removed to Baldwin. We trus
our readers will carefully keep tn
points therein enumerated fixed j
nheir minds, so that when the mat
ter comes to final trial they wi
the better understand it. We OK
pect to see those charges effectual
ly disproved, provided the matte
be brought into court. If it turn
out to the contrary, We shall b
greatly surprised. Every possibl
effort will doubtless be made by tn
Chase partisams to prove their des
perate case. On the other hand
the people of Lake county must no
nelly too much upon the business o
their cause, and fail to present tn
true facts in the case. There is
possibility that the injunction ma.
be dissolved, before August 18th
as Judge Wheeler,at the recent ses
sion of Court, stated that he hat
grave doubts as to his jurisdiction il
the matter. Viewing the case ant
its alleged merits from our stand
point, We could heartily wish tn,
trouble and expense to tire tax-pay
ers of the county at an end. Ii
the prospect of a thorough vindica,
ton of the defendants in the case
we wish to see it 60 on.
The following is the entire sub.
stance of the answer'to the inform.
alton:
"The answer of the Board of Su.
pervisors of Lake county, State of
Michigan, and Isaac Grant, to the
information, shows:
"That in the year 1871, the
county seat of Lake county was
voted by the voters of Lake county
to be established on the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of
Section No. Ten, in Township No.
Seventeen North, of Range No.
Eleven West; designated and known
as Green Dell; but that said parcel
of land was then and ever since has
been unoccupied land, and that the
county seat of Lake county was
never duly located and established
mt said Green Dell; but that hereto
fore and till the township meetings
in said county, for the year 1875,
said county seat and the county Off
ces have been kept at the village of
Chase, in said County of Lake.
"That OH the 21st day of August,
1874, the Board of Supervisors, by
u two-thirds majority, passed res
olution providing for the removal
of the county seat of said Lake
county to the village of Baldwin, in
said county, substantially as set
forth in the information filed in said
cause; and subsequently, at a ses-
sion of the Board of Supervisors,
held on the 18th day of October,
1874, passed by the requisite vote,
a resolution providing for the sub
of the question of the re-
moval of the county seat at Bald
win aforesaid, to the qualified cleo
tors of said county, at the ensuing
meetings, to be held in
said county, in April, 1875, as by
the records fsaid meeting, to which
these defendants pray leave to re-
FER; and that the statement in said
information contained, that said
Board never by resolution submit
ted to the electors of said County
IF Lake a proposition to remove
said county seat to Baldwin afore-
'aid, is wilfully and maliciously
alse; as the passage of said resolu-
ion was notorious, and the record
hereof is and ever has been open
% the inspection of all. That in
accordance with said resolution the
question was duly submitted to the
electors of said County of Lake, for
'oting at the township meetings,
leld in said county, on Monday,
he 9Th day of April, 1875, and up
m such vote being taken the whole
lumber of votes given for the re-
noval of the county seat was 355,
nd the whole number of votes Civ
n against the removal of the coun-
y seat was 800; as appears from
he official record Of the canvass of |
otes, made in the manner required |
y law and completed on the 18th
ay of April, 1875.
At this point We will say that in
he information appeared a state
nent of the action of the Board of
supervisors, relative to the procur-
ng of suitable building at Bald
vim. The point raised, VIC belive,
8 mere technical onc-that the
.ction was not strictly regular
sDrroR.]
"Thereupon, it became the duty
4 the Board of Supervisors of Lake
ounty to provide for the removal
4 the county seat and county off,
es of Lake county to said village
{ Baldwin, and to procure build
ngs for the holding of the same,
nd to that end, said Board Of Su-
ervisors appointed a committee to
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