Show JUDGE mckean ON COURTS FOR llor COUNTIES SALT LAKE CITY march 14 iva mr Al younan clerk third district court SIR you have called my attention to the fact that on thell theli the lith tIr tiu instant the authorities of salt lake county appropriated the sum of 0 W to pay the e expenses of i 1101 lioi holding d ill g a district court in and for said c county 11 and you ask for instructions in the premises I 1 answer that although as I 1 am informed this is the first instance of the kind since the organization of the territory Berri tory still the county authorities have a legal right to make such appropriations but your duties in the premises are not during in 11 the present term of court J affected thereby there are two regular terms of court in bac each I 1 i year in and an d for this district commencing in march and september and appointed in pursuance of congressional legislation they are for forthe tile trial of cases arising under und erthe the lassof laws of congress congresses as w 1251 ell eli as cases arising under the laws lawa of the territory they are not held for fer one county but for the whole district consisting of nine counties about fifteen years ago congress provided that a judge of the supreme reme court of a territory might told bold hold court in any ady county etc for the purpose of hearing and determining all matters and causes except those in which the united states is a party provided that the expense thereof shall be pid by y the territory or by the counties in which said courts may bo be held and the united states shall in no case be chargeable therewith other territories long since availed themselves of this statute and pro vided aided for terms of their district courts in and for ca each ch county in utah however the terms of the district courts have always been helu heia for a whole district and not for any one county never until tile tilo day yest sest yesterday erd ay have either the territorial rial or any county authorities provided for the pay ment of the expenses of any district court held for a county on the dill instant as you know the re regular 11 yular march term of the third district court was commenced it stands adjourned toan to an ear ly day and in the meantime I 1 am I 1 considering some important cases r that have been submitted after argument the pending term is for the whole district nine counties on the calendar are between three and four hundred cases in some of them the united states are a w party and many of the territorial cases arose in other counties than this such cases cannot be tried at a court held heid for this county alone mr hollister collector of internal lle Ile revenue ventie lias has reported to the fede lal ial authorities abut about four hundred violation of the revenue laws of the united states the offenders c can be prosecuted only in a court held for a district and not for fora a county the county authorities cannot indeed no power but congress can limit tho the pending terra 1 of court to county the tile county sheri sheriff fl cannot summon it a jury from the whole district and no jury that he could summon in this county countr ouid servo serve for the whole district disteli t when the tile business of the regular march term shall have been dispo disposed ced sed of I 1 shall be ready for foi any other duties detles required by law re yours JAMES B MCKEA mckeay N chief justice now IT is TO BK BE malton now it is masaid said sald that the adventists after rovis revis hg their calculations and their have nixed fixed upon this present month of march for the end of all things notwithstanding we have a notion that there thero will be some april fools this year anyhow IN drut DEBT E eik elk iko iho 0 county nevada navada has a bonded debt of floating debt total 75 the estimated value of property belonging longing to the county is 03 how some somo cities count counties leg les territories ri states and nations will get into dett debt debt to bo be sure |