Plumas County, CA History

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta Jul 2009

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Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith , 1882, San Francisco.


COUNTY COURT 
  
  
          By the organic Act of the county, the salary of the county judge was 
fixed at one thousand dollars per annum. Hon. William T. Ward was chosen to the 
position at the first county election, and by virtue of his office held also the 
probate court, and presided in the court of sessions. By the Act of March 25, 
1857, the salary was doubled, and that fall Hon. E. T. Hogan was elected judge, 
and in 1861 was again chosen to the same position. In 1863, by virtue of the 
constitutional amendments, a new election was held, and Israel Jones was chosen, 
but died before assuming the office. By appointment of the governor, Hon. A. P. 
Moore filled the position till the fall of 1865, when Judge Hogan was again 
chosen to the office. The election of 1877 resulted in the choice of Hon. 
William A. Cheney, who held the position till the court was terminated by the 
adoption of the new constitution. The last record of this court made on the last 
day of December, 1879, is as follows: 
                                                     
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE COUNTY OF PLUMAS, 
State of California, 
December term, A. D., 1879. 
  
It is ordered that all the papers, records, actions, books and cases pending in 
this court, or belonging to the files thereof, and all actions and proceedings 
hereafter commenced herein, and all other matters and things pertaining to said 
court, be and the same are hereby ordered to be transferred to the superior 
court of Plumas county, on the first day of January, 1880, and to become the 
records of said latter court. 
Witness my hand this thirty-first day of December, 1879. 

Wm. A. Cheney, County Judge. 

It is hereby ordered that this court be adjourned sine die, and that this order 
be spread upon the minutes of said court. 
Witness my hand this thirty-first day of December, 1879. 

Wm. A. Cheney, County Judge. 
Filed December 31, 1879. W. T. Byers, Clerk.