Connecticut western news., 1886-11-24

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 18th.
 The adjourned meeting in regard to the Litchfield court house matter was held in Litchfield on Tuesday. The day was pleas ant, the travelling good, and all of the rep resentatives of the county, including state senators. except Burlington of New Hart ford, Card of Sharon, and Johnson of Nor folk, were present, and also number of citizens from surrounding towns. Besides Senator Staub and Representatives Barton and Kelly, those in attendance from New Milford were l.. F. Curtis, D. E. Soule, G. w. Anthony, F. s. Richmond, J. F. Addis, w. F. Hurlbut, Charles Schreyer, J. LeRoy Buck. I. B. Bristol, $. c. Beecher, J. A. Bolles, P. N. Hall. Among the prom inent citizens who came from other places were Col. A. H. Fenn, w. B. Smith, Capt. S. B, Horne. T. B. Clark, MT. Norton, Rep resentative elect Marsh. Selectman Finn and other prominent citizens of Winsted, A. T. Roraback, North Canaan, and Coun- ty Commissioners Dunning. Pettibone and Judson.
 The meeting was called to order in Ar mory Hall shortly after eleven o'clock. An drew J. Spurr of Salisbury was chairman. Representative Lucas of Goshen arose and offered for consideration a long resolution, the purport of which was that the sum of $3O, 900 should be raised for the purpose of rebuilding court house, with town house accommodations for the town of Litchfield; one-half of this snm, or $15 ,OOO, to be do- mated by the town of Litchtield. and the remaining $15, ,0OO to be raised by a tax on the county.
 Senator Staub said that he would like to inquire of the chairman or any member whether there was any copy of the lease of the land on which the recently burned court house stood, which WAS dated subsequent to 1902. If so, he would like to be posted on this matter, before the vote on the resolution offered by Mir. Lucas, was taken.
 MT. Lucas replied that he had copy of the records in his hand, and at the proper time would bring them up for consideration
 Senator Stanb replied that if the Senator (Mr. Lucas was elected senator ut the late election) had any lease or other title dated subsequent to 1902, he would like to have it read, because he held in his hand the copy of the lease given in 1902. which showed, according to able lawyers whom he had consulted, that if the county enter tained the proposition made by Litchfeld, it would forfeit all title to the ground on which it was proposed to erect the build
 
 could be produced, he proposed, with the permission of the members, to read the conditions of the lease, in order that they could be enabled to vote intelligently.
 MT. Lucas did not see any pertinence to the question raised by Senator Staub. The discussion on the resolution would bring out all of the light that was needed on this point. If they had not a title, they would have to pay for it, that was all.
 Senator Staub maintained that the ques- tion of the title was pertinent. If he could show by 0 lease that the moment the town of Litchfeld was taken into partnership with the county in erecting building on that site, that the moment $50, O,OOO or so were spent in this matter, unless a subse- ,quent lease could be produced, the heirs to the ground could step in and take the prop erty from the county. If this question was not pertinent, what could be
 After some further discussing and fenc- ing MT. Lucas seemed to think it best to compromise the matter by calling for the reading of the titles to the property, inas- much as most of the members were igno- rant as to them. Accordingly the clerk was called upon to read the records dating from 1795 to 1919. These records were of interminable length, full of names and pet ty details, and all but the lease of 1902 were of no consequence, inaslnuch ns the latter superseded the conditions of all le,.ses pre- ceding it. The reading of 10 much old rub bish seemed as a blind to the main issue, and it is quite probable that the represen- tatives were more mixed up than enlight- ened by it. For the benefit of our readers we give below the text of the lease of 1902, the only paper now on record relating to the title of the court house site, subsequent to March 4th, 1903:
 County of Ltchfeld - of Moses Seymour and others.
 This indenture this 14th day of September, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Two, be- twixt Moses Seymour Esq, Frederick Wolcott Esq, Elijah Wadsworth, Moses Seymour