An Original Paper Upon Early Records in Cayuga County Clerk's Office PDF Download

Author: George W. Benham
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266827955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Excerpt from An Original Paper Upon Early Records in Cayuga County Clerk's Office: Prepared by Request and Read Before the Cayuga County Historical Society I do not find that the duties of county clerk were changed in any material respect from the colonial times, except in the designation of his office as a repository for additional files and records provided for by legislation from time to time, except in 1796, when an act was passed abolishing the office of clerk of the Circuit Court and Courts of Oyer and Terminer, which until this time, had been a separate and distinct office, and imposing the duties of the office upon the county clerk, who was made ex - oficz'o clerk of all the courts of record, except the Surrogate's Court, in the county. The late clerks of said courts were directed to deliver all court records to the county clerk. The record delivered to the county clerk of 0nondaga, of which Cayuga was then a part, is now in our clerk's office and is the first book in the series of court records. Previously to bringing the county records to the village of Auburn there had been considerable strife and agitation over the question of locating the county seat where all county records should be kept, courts should be held and all of the county business should be transacted; the need of which had become quite imperative in view of the fact that the courts were being held at Scipio and Cayuga, while the jail was located at Cayuga, the clerk's office at Aurora, and the general business of the county, because of convenience to its scattered population, was being performed in various widely separated places. But when Seneca county was detached from Cayuga, March 27, 1804, this changed the geographical condition in our county so as to render this system inconvenient and impracticable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.