Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1886-02-18

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1856, the Honorable Board of Count,
Commissioners of Idaho County, 7. T.
met in special session to rcmonstrat.
against the Bills for the admission O
the Northern Counties OF said Terri
tory to Washington Territory or State
Present, c. NJ. Day and c. b. Wood
Commissioners, and II. J. Rhoads
Clerk. The following resolutions were
adopted:
TO the Honorable Senate and House o,
Representatives, Of the United States
an Congress assembled.
WHEREAS, at the 18th and last sess.
ion of the Legislative assembly of the
Territory of Idaho, convened at the
Capitol of said Territory, on the sth
day of December, A. ID. 1854, said Leg.
islative assembly, with full knowledge
of all the facts and circumstances relat-
ing to the subject, passed Joint Coun-
Gil Memorial, No. 2, addressed to your
Honorable Body, memorializing for
the segregation Of the four Northern
Counties of Idaho Territory and attach
ing them to the Territory of Washing
ton, when that Territory should be-
come a State, and especially defining
the South Line of the County of Idaho
as the boundary between the future
State of Washington and Idaho Terri
tory, and setting forth fully the reasons
for such segregation, which Memorial
is hereby referred to and made part
of this RemOnStrance. And
WHEREAS, the south line of Idaho
County has been changed and so es-
tablished by Legislative enactment as
to meet the wants and interests of the
People living on each side of the nat
ural barriers to communication, men,
toned in the said Memorial, and the
whole people of idaho County, as at
present established, having commun-
ity of interest, any division of Idaho
County making Salmon River the
Southern boundary, in whole or in part
of Idaho County, would be ruinous to
the people of said County living on
each side thereof, their business rela-
tons and all means of communication
being identical; and the tract of country
lying between Salmon River and Snake
river for more than fifty miles from the
mouth of Salmon river being a narrow
in no place over sixteen
miles in width and but six miles wide
at Horse Shoe Bend, fifty miles from
its mouth. And
WHEREAS, The whole taxable prop
erty of Idaho County, as shown by
the assessment roll for A. ID. 1885; was
s640,67l, and SIG, 400 thereof was upon
lying South and West of Sal
mon River, and over One-fourth of the
personal taxes, to-wit Poll, hospital
and road taxes, We're assessed and col
lected in the same portion of the
County; and should line be ostab-
lished, commencing at the middle
channel of Snake River, thence di-
rectly East to the head of Rabbit creek
and thence down Rabbit creek to its
mouth and thence up Salmon river, as
provided in Bill introduced iu the U.
5. House of Representatives on the 18th
day of january, a. ID. 1856, and num-
bcred 2s4l, Idaho County would be de-
prived of One-siXth of the revenues
by making Salmon River the bound
airy from its mouth, nearly One Fourth
Of the population of the County would
suffer all the inconvenience herein set
forth. And
WHEREAS, The Bills that have been
introduced in Congress for the annex
alton Of the four Northern Counties of
Idaho to Washington provide that the
segregated portion of Idaho Territory
shall be responsible, by counties, for
heir respective portions of the bonded
iebt of Idaho Territory, less money in
-he treasury, and whereas the present
leht of Idaho county is in round num-
)ers, S2S, 800, should either of the Bills
pending in Congress upon the subject
IF annexation of the four Northern
Counties of Idaho to the Territory or
State of Washington be enacted, it
would deprive Idaho County of nearly
Onc-Fourth of its means for raising
'evenue, without compensation, and
cave the remaining portion of the
County saddled with an incubus that
would retard immigration and be an
almost unbearable burden upon the
balance of the county so annexed to
THEREFORE,, We most earnestly but
demonstrate in the name
If and in behalf of the People of Idaho
County against any dismemberment of
said county, and against the division
IF Idaho Territory and the annexation
If any part thereof including any por-
ion of Idaho County to the Territory
)r future State of Washington, except
with the boundary fixed between said
'uture state of Washington and the
Territory of Idaho as recommended in
said Joint Council Memorial Number
;, of the Legislative Assembly of
he Territory of Idaho, at its Thir-
zenith Session, and provision that
he Territory or future State of WASH
ngton shall reimburse Idaho County
or her share of the net bonded debt Of
idaho County.
On motion it was ordered by the
Board that their clerk forward to the
Hon. J. n. Dolph, L. S. Senator from
he State of Oregon, and the Hon.
John HALEY, Delegate in Congress
rom Idaho Territory, a certified copy
If this days proceedings of this Board
md attach TO each a copy of Joint
council Memorial No. ., passed at the
Thirteenth Session of the Legislative
assembly of Idaho Territory, and re-
quest of each, respectively, that he
present the same to the body of which
he is a member, for consideration; and
llso furnish the press of Idaho Terri
DRY certified copy of the same, with
request for publication.
c. NJ. DAY,
c. b. WooD,
County Commissioners.
Attest: T. J. RHOADs, Clerk.
OF IDAHO,
County of Idaho.
], II. J. Rhoads, Clerk of the Board
+ Commissioners of Idaho County, l.
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