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Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

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oo govern a continent. Tho pehphe were given over to the mercies of "one Mayor, te Aldermen, one Recorder, one Treasurer, one Assessor, one Clerk, one Attorney and one Marshal," with provision for an indefinite number of other inferior officers. The election took place in April, the people selected out of a crowd of candidates, and the city was goon in the full tide of unsuccessful experiment. The authorities ren the city heedlessly in debt. Perhaps it could not be obtemeea, with so many salaries to pay, A less expensive organization might have been beneficial, but this was too heavy a burden. The people in a few months petitioned the officers to resign, and the Legislature of 1852 repealed the charter, after it had accomplished exactly eleven months of existence. I. Williamson was sppointed as commissioner to wind up the affairs of the city, and it appeared by his report, dated April 3d, there was » debt remaining at that tikme of $8,051317, while the city assets were worth about $750.00. Pretty well for one small town in about six months of actual administration. Most of the old city debt remains umpaid to this day, (1856) the Court of Sessions failing to order a special tax to pay it off; and it is nighly probable that it will remain unpaid for a long while to come, & Some few of the city officers made a good thing of the matter. The Recorder, for faatunne; was mistaken by hundreds of miners as an officer elected to record mining claims, and these brought their notices to be yacovead, he charging fees that would excite the admiration of a county clerk in these degenerate days. But the whole organization was a reckless and stupid experiment, umnecessary and impracticable. a <2. No evidence is) Son pe erent \ 5].