A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Mateo http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=595 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=30582 Submitted by: Chris Havnar Article Title: San Mateo County Gazette Article Date: March 9 1861 Article Description: General Transcription Article Text: San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, March 9, 1861, Vol. 2 No. 49 BIRTH In Redwood City, March 7th, the wife of Charles Hanson of a son. MORE DIVORCES – At the February term of the District Court for Calaveras county, three decrees in divorce were granted, to wit: Madeline Kessler vs. Jacob Kessler; Fanny R. Snow vs. Franklin Snow; and W.N. Thompson vs. Fanny A. Thompson. THE COURTS. – The County Court commenced its March term on Monday last. In the case of Templeton vs. McKeen & Crosby, ordered, that appeal be dismissed. Adjourned till March 11. In the Probate Court, Tuesday, 5th inst., final report of the administrator of estate of W.D. Harrington, was filed, and accepted. Public Administrator filed report on the estate of Braxton Richardt. Appraisers were appointed on the estate of Joseph Emerson. Adjourned till 11th inst. The Court of Session convened for the March term on Wednesday. At the opening of the Court, the District Attorney, C.N. Fox, Esq., said that he felt it a duty to allude to a late act of the Legislature, which in his opinion called for the severest censure from the people, and was in effect an impeachment of the entire judiciary of California. That in the change of venue granted by that body in the case of the People vs. Horace Smith, charged with murder, an outrage upon the laws and a violation of the Constitution had been committed, and a precedent established in the highest degree injurious to public safety; affording a protection and refuge to rich and influential murderers; an act to be deprecated wherever justice and good government prevailed; and all who had voted for that act had violated their official oath to support the Constitution. The Grand Jury were empanelled, and after the charge from Judge Fox retired. From the number of witnesses in attendance, we are induced to believe that a large amount of business has been and is to be brought before them. MEETING OF SUPERVISORS The Board met pursuant to adjournment, on Monday March 4th. Present, R.S. Thornton, J.P. Ames, and J.V. Diller. The following bills were presented and allowed: Wm. Godfrey, $30; S.S. Stanbaugh, $33; W. Bush, $12; J.V. Diller, $189.92; A.S. Easton, $149.10; Dr. Angle, $116. Proposal of Wm. Godfrey for county printing, was accepted, without bonds. A petition was received for a road from Belmont to Belmont embarcadero, upon which Messrs. D.S. Cook, J. Donald and J.S. Cosgrove were appointed viewers. The Board then adjourned till first Monday in April. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Declaration as Sole Trader Know all men by these presents, that I, Mary Jane Dolloff, wife of Jerome B. Dolloff, residents of the County of San Mateo, being desirous of availing myself of the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California entitled “An Act to authorize married women to carry on and transact business in their own names, as sole traders,” passed April 12th, 1852 do hereby publish and declare my intention from and after this date, and the recording of this declaration in the office of the County Recorder, as provided in the 2d section of said Act, to transact and carry on business in my own name and on my own account, as a sole trader, under the provisions of said Act, and the nature of the business which I so intend to carry on is the ordinary business of Farming and stock-raising and that I intend to carry on the said business upon the premises where I now reside, in the region of country known as Halfmoon Bay, in the county of San Mateo, and that from and after ! this date I will be individually responsible, in my own name, for all debts contracted by me on account of my said business, and that the original capital invested and which I intend to invest in said business, is less than five thousand dollars. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 28th day of February A.D. 1861. MARY J. DOLLOFF On this 28th day of February, A.D. 1861, before me, John Johnston, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Mary Jane Dolloff, wife of Jerome B. Dolloff personally known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the annexed instrument as a party thereto, and acknowledged to me that she executed the same freely and voluntarily, and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. And the said Mary Jane Dolloff, wife of the said Jerome B. Dolloff, having been by me, first made acquainted with the contents of said instrument, acknowledged to me on examination apart from and without the hearing of her husband, that she executed the same freely and voluntarily, without fear or compulsion or undue influence of her husband, and that she did not wish to retract the execution of the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the day and year in this Certificate first above written. J. JOHNSON Justice of the Peace. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Clark’s Seventeen-Mile House (Seventeen Miles from San Francisco) Proprietor, Wm. A. Clarke David McLellan Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Hay, Grain, Feed, Flour, Wood & Coal Wholesale Store, No. 24 Market street, opposite Stewart street, running through to Sacramento street. Retail Store, No. 30 Clay st., San Francisco. Ford’s Halfmoon Bay Express A new Concord covered wagon for nine passengers in now in use. S. FORD & CO., Proprietor ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com