The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-30

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4. Building Committee.
S. Master Builders.
6. Clergy and Orator.
Z. Gaoler and Crier.
8. Constables.
8. CoronerS.
10. Justices of the Supreme Court,
Ill. Judges of the Common Pleas.
II. Justices of the Peace.
ID. Clerk and Surrogate.
IA. Atty General and Prosecutor.
Is. Members of the Bar.
16. Grand Jury.
IL. Petit Jury.
Is. County Collector and Assessors.
10. Citizens.
ORDER OF DEDICATION.
1. Open with Prayer.
2. Address.
3. Prayer. an
4. Opening the Courts in due form
of law.
S. Calling and Swearing the Grand
Jury.
6. Charge to the Grand Jury.
Z. Adjournment of the Courts TO the
next day.
This Committee also recommended
that Committee of the County be ap-
pointed by the Court to carry the above
arrangements into effect. The Court
approved the arrangements and ap-
pointed the following Committee to
carry them into effect: Walter Kirk
patrick, John H. Glover, Ab'm Brit
tin, Stephen Thompson, John Cooper,
Lawrence Hager, Mahlon Dickerson,
Thomas Dickerson, Lewis Mills, David
B. Hurd, John S. Darcy, Ezekiel
Whitehead, VIM. B. Patterson, David
Thompson. and John Boykin, Esqrs.
1t was evidently busy season with
these men as but six of them attended
the first meeting, and they, mot be-
ing able to form quorum, adjourned
to meet again at Cooks Hotel on the
first Monday in September
The Committee met at the appoint
ed time and place; Stephen Thompson
was appointed chairman and Walter
Kirkpatrick, Secretary. The Commit
tee approved of the arrangements as
made, and further resolved:
1st. That Henry A. Ford, Esq. be
appointed to deliver an Address, at the
opening of the New Court House.
I'd. That the Washington Band Of
Music be invited to attend.
Sd. That Abraham Brittin, Walter
Kirkpatrick and Thomas Dickerson,
Esqrs. be Marshalls of the Day.
4th. That Lewis Mills and Ezekiel
Whitehead, be a special committee to
fill vacancies and effect all the neces-
sary arrangements.
9Th. That the foregoing proceedings
be published in both the papers print
ed in this town.
The opening services were held Sep
TENDER 18th. The Rev. Mr.. Barnes op-
ened the exercises with prayer, after
which Henry A. Ford, Esq, delivered
an excellent address. The closing
prayer was offered by the Rey. Mr..
Berger, of Bottle-Hill. The record
says" The building is rs feet by As
three stories high. The first story
contains the Clerk, Surrogate and
Sheriff's Offices, a fire-proof room for
records, parlour, and five rooms for
debtors and criminals. In one end of
the second story is the Court-Room AZ
feet square within the walls, and III
feet high. The end of the building
opposite the court room is divided in
heights into twoistories, appropriated
to the deliberations of the Grand and
Petit Jurors, and family apartments.
In the basement story or cellar, are
3 cells, with family apartments and
furnace for heating the prisons, &c.
The whole will cost upwards of twenty
thousand dollars
1.-THE architects were Mr.. Lewis
Carter, of Chatham, and Mr.. Joseph
NJ. Lindsey Of this town"
(Mr. Lindsey was elected Sheriff in
the fall election and was the first sher-
iff to occupy the new building.)
The Court and County officers in that
year were Chief justice, Charles Ew-
ing; associate justices, Gabriel Ford.
George X. Drake; common pleas Judge,
James Wood; attorney general, Theo-
dOre Frelinghuysen; prosecutor, Jacob
w. Miller; sheriff, Elijah Ward; coun-
ty clerk, Zepheniah Drake; surrogate,
Jesse Epson.
In The JERSEYAIAN OF April Is, 1927,
we find" Now that our old Court
House is torn down, it is presumed the
citizens of this village will show a lit
tie public spirit by leyeling and orna-
menting the Green. But few places
in the State can surpaSs this in point
OF situation or advantages, but the in
habitantS generally have been too
much devoted to their own interests
toimprOve the appearance of the town.
1t would be no injury to the place If
some Of the houses were newly painted
and many OF the fences repaired.
When erected the new court house
was considered very fine building,
but in time more room was required.
Along In the fiftieS the work house
building was put up, and for a time
the keepers family also occupied the
court house. For many years the
County Clerk and Surrogate occupied
a small one-story building on Court
Screet (which was replaced with the
present county hall. Then came the