Chapter XI

Extracts from the Acts of the General Assembly

1830 to 1851 With Notes Pertaining To The Removal Of The County Seat And The Erection Of The Court House

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An Act To Establish The Town Of New Haven

 Passed January, 29, 1830.

1.  Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That not exceeding twenty acres of land, the property of Josiah Shanklin, lying on the turnpike road leading from the town of Lewisburg to the junction of New River, on Osborne's Creek, in the county of Nicholas, shall be, and the same is hereby established a town, by the name of "New Haven," so soon as the same shall be laid off into lots with convenient streets and alleys; and that Miles Manser, James Likens, James Skaggs, William Masterson, William Carnefix, Thomas Terry, Samuel Sparr and George Hunter, gentlemen, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees thereof.

2.  Be it further enacted, That the trustees of said town, or a majority of them, shall be, and they are herby empowered to make such by-laws, rules and ordinances, for the regulation of the police thereof, and for the regular building of houses therein, as to them shall seem best, and the same to alter, repeal and enforce, and to settle and determine all disputes concerning the boundaries of lots, streets and alleys of said town: Provided, That such by-laws, rules and ordinances, shall not be repugnant to, or inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or this Commonwealth.

3.  Be it further enacted, That every free white male citizen of this Commonwealth, who shall be possessed of a freehold estate in any lot in said town, having a dwelling house thereon, equal to twelve feet square, with a brick or stone chimney thereto, and who shall have been so possessed for the time prescribed by law, shall enjoy the same rights and privileges, that freeholders of other towns in this Commonwealth, not incorporated, are entitled thereto.

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   4.  Be it further enacted, That so much of this act, entitled "an act to reduce into one act, all acts and parts, concerning the office of trustees or directors of the several towns within this Commonwealth, and for supplying vacancies in the same, as if of a public and general nature," shall be regarded as the law in relation of the town of New Haven hereby established.

5.  This act shall be in force from its passage.

The town of New Haven, which was incorporated January 29, 1830, was at first located in Nicholas county, but became a part of Fayette county by the act passed February 28, 1831, forming the county of Fayette from parts of Nicholas, Greenbrier, Kanawha and Logan counties.

The act referred to in section 4 of the foregoing act establishing the town of New Haven was passed March 2, 1819, and is as follows:

1.  Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That upon the death, removal out of the county, or either legal disability, of any one or more trustees and directors of the several towns within this State not incorporated, and for the supply of vacancy, so often as the same shall happen, shall hereafter be supplied on the manner following; that is to say: The surviving trustees and directors, or any of them, shall give immediate notice of vacancy to the sheriff of the county wherein such town may be, who, within twenty days thereafter, shall notify the same to the freeholders of the said town, in such manner as he may think best, requiring them to appear at a certain place therein, and on a certain day, not less than ten days thence next following, then and there to elect a trustee in the room of the one so dying, removed or disabled.  The sheriff shall attend and take poll as such election, entering the names of the persons voted for in a distinct column, and the name of every freeholder giving his vote under the name of the person he votes for: and, when no freeholders appear to vote, the sheriff shall close the poll, and return the same to the next court to be held for his county, upon oath, certifying the name of the person elected, to be by the clerk recorded.

2.  Every person elected in manner directed by this act, shall, to all intents and purposes, be a trustee of the town for which he was chosen.

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   3.  If any trustee or director of a town not incorporated hath removed, or shall remove his residence to a greater distance than that of five miles from the said town, such removal of residence shall be considered as a vacation of his office, and the vacancy thereby occasioned, shall be supplied in the manner herein-before directed.

4.  And if, by death, resignation or other causes, there are no trustees remaining of any town not incorporated, it shall be lawful for the sheriff of the county in which said town is, and he is hereby directed, on application of any five freeholders of the said town for that purpose, to cause an election of trustees or directors to be made in the manner herein-before prescribed.

5.  The trustees of the respective unincorporated towns of this Commonwealth shall be, and they are hereby authorized, by by-laws not contravening laws heretofore or which may hereafter be enacted by the legislature, to prohibit horse-racing in the streets thereof, under a penalty not exceeding five dollars for every such offense, to be recovered of each offender, on information of either of the said trustees, before a justice of the peace of their respective counties, not being an inhabitant of their said towns; the sum so recovered shall be by the said trustees appropriated towards repairing the streets within their said town.

By the act of the General Assembly, creating the county of Fayette which was passed February 28 1831, commissioners were appointed to impartially and correctly ascertain the most proper place for holding courts and erecting public buildings for the county of Fayette.  The commissioners appointed were as follows: Peter H. Steinbergen of Mason, William Buffington of Cabell, Andrew Johnson of Giles, Henry Alexander of Monroe, and George I. Williams of Harrison.

The act also provided that the governor should commission ten persons as justices of the peace in and for county of Fayette; that the justices so commissioned should hold a session of the county court on the third Monday in every month; and that the justices should meet at the residence of Miles Manser (located in the town of New Haven), on the third Monday in May 1831, for the purpose of organizing the County Court, appointing of a Clerk for said court, nominating to the governor suitable persons to be commissioned as Sheriff and Coroner of the county, and fixing a place for

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holding the courts of the county until the necessary buildings should be constructed at the place designed by the commissioners appointed.

The justices commissioned by the governor met as directed at the residence of Miles Manser and fixed the town of New Haven as the place for holding the courts of the county.  Thus this town became the first county seat of Fayette County.

However, the commissioners appointed by the act creating the county, to ascertain the most proper place for holding the courts and erecting the public buildings, located the site for the seat of justice at the Falls of Kanawha.

The location of the county seat at the Falls of Kanawha as fixed by the commissioners failed to give general satisfaction, whereupon the general assembly passed an act on January 18, 1833 appointing new commissioners to select a site for the seat of justice for the county of Fayette.  The commissioners appointed were: William Anderson of Botetourt, John H. Vawter of Monroe, Nehemiah Smith of Jackson, Jesse Davis of Alleghany, and Adam See of

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Randolph.  The commissioners met as instructed at the residence of Miles Manser's at the town of New Haven and after deliberation located the site for the seat of justice at Clement Vaughan's, which was located on the James River and Kanawha turnpike just east of the town of New Haven.  Preparations then began for the erection of the court house and other public buildings on the land of Clement Vaughan.  Stone had been quarried and the foundation for the court house had been completed, but it began to appear that the new location as fixed by the second commission failed to render general satisfaction, whereupon, the General Assembly passed an act February 27, 1834, appointing another commission, to supersede the former commission, for the purpose of fixing the site of the seat of justice for the county of Fayette.  The new commissioners appointed were: John Haymond of Lewis, John Rayder of Jackson, William Smith of Giles, John B. George of Tazewell, and Gen. Elisha M'Comas of Cabell.  The commissioners as directed met at the house of George Hunter and after due consideration and deliberation decided upon, and located the site for the seat of justice at Abraham Vandal's.  The community in which Abraham Vandal lived was later called Vandalia in honor of this pioneer settler, and was the same as the present site of the town of Fayetteville.  It was soon developed, however, that the location as fixed by the third commission failed to render general satisfaction, and the matter was again brought up before the General Assembly of Virginia in 1835.

An act authorizing the people of Fayette county to fix upon a place by vote for erecting their court house and other public buildings, was passed on February 13, 1835, which act is as follows:

Whereas it appears to the General Assembly that the commissioners appointed by act of the assembly creating the county of Fayette, located the site of the seat of justice of said county at the Falls of Kanawha; that commissioners which were subsequently appointed by law to re-locate the site for the said seat of justice, located it at Clement Vaughan's; and that a third set of commissioners appointed by law to make another location of the site for a seat of justice for said county, located the same at Abraham Vandal's, and

Whereas, it appears further, that neither of the said locations has rendered general satisfaction to the people of said county: For remedy whereof,

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   1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other officers conducting elections in the county of Fayette, at the time and place of holding elections in said county for a delegate to the General Assembly in April next, to open a separate poll for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people as to which of the said three places, to-wit: "The Falls of Kanawha," "Clement Vaughan's," or "Abraham Vandal's," they shall proceed to erect the court house and other public buildings for the said county.  The said poll shall contain three columns; at the head of one shall be entered "The Falls of Kanawha," at the head of another shall be entered "Clement Vaughan's," and at the head of the third shall be entered "Abraham Vandal's."  The names of the voters who are in favor of erecting the court house and other public buildings at the Falls of Kanawha shall be entered in the column so headed; the names of the voters who are in favor of erecting the court house and other public buildings at Clement Vaughan's, shall be entered in the column so headed; and the names of the voters who are in favor of erecting the court house and other public buildings at Abraham Vandal's, shall be entered in the column so headed.  The sheriff and other officers conducting said election shall poll the vote of every person claiming the right to vote, who is qualified according to the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth, to vote for a delegate to the General Assembly, and also the vote of every white male citizen of said county of the age twenty-one years and upwards, who hat resided in the said county for one whole year next preceding the election, and who was assessed with the county levy for the preceding year, and hath actually paid the same, provided the voter does not labor under any legal disability, and shall make oath to his qualification if required to do so.

2. Be it further enacted, That the sheriff and other officers conducting said poll, shall proceed with, certify and return the same to the clerk of their county, in the same manner and at the same time that they are required by law to proceed with, certify and return the poll taken by them for a delegate to the General Assembly, and shall be liable to like penalties for a failure herein.

3. And be it further enacted, That on the ninth day after the close of the election at the court house, it shall be the duty of William Carnefix, J. P. Huddleston and Hiram Hill, who are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose, to meet at the clerk's office of said county, and proceed to examine the polls hereby required to be taken, and which shall be produced to them by the clerk, and having stricken therefrom the names of all such persons as in the opinion of the majority of them, are not entitled to vote according to the provisions of this act, shall make out a fair copy of said corrected poll, and verify the same, by taking and subscribing before some justice of the peace, an affidavit to the following effect, viz: "We, William Carnefix, John P. Huddleston and Hiram Hill, make oath that we have stricken therefrom no person's name, who, in the opinion of a majority of us, had a legal right to vote,

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and that the name of no one remains thereon, who a majority of us concur in believing is not entitled to vote according to the provisions of this act."  "Sworn and subscribed before me, a justice of the peace of Fayette county this ...... day, &c."  And it shall be the duty of said commissioners to return the said corrected poll so verified, to the clerk of said county, to be by him preserved in his office, and if it shall appear to said commissioners from the poll so corrected, that a majority of all the votes taken are in favor of any one of said places voted for, that fact shall be certified by them to the court of their county, and shall to all intents and purposes, be the place for erecting the court house and other public buildings for said county of Fayette.

4. Be it further enacted, That if it shall appear to said commissioners, that a majority of all the votes taken are not given to any one particular place voted for, it shall then be their duty to issue their warrant, under their hands and seals, directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring him to open a poll at the next June court thereafter, to take the sense of the voters of said county between the two places having the highest number of votes on said corrected poll, and shall deliver the same to him immediately.  It shall then be the duty of the sheriff to open a poll on the first day of the next June court for his county, at the several election precincts therein, and shall proceed with, certify and return the same as required to be done at the April election preceding, except that he shall open the polls at the court house, and other places of holding elections in said county, for three days; shall confine the choice of the voters to the two places designated in said warrant, and shall be liable to the same penalties for any omission herein, as he would be for a like omission in conducting, certifying and returning the poll taken for a delegate to the General Assembly.

5. Be it further enacted, That the commissioners herein before appointed, shall again assemble at the clerk's office of said county, on the ninth day after the close of the poll at the court house, and shall proceed to examine the poll so taken, and which shall be produced to them by the clerk; and shall correct and verify the same in the same manner in which they are herein before required to examine, correct and verify the poll taken in the month of April, and shall return the same to the clerk of said county, to be by him filed in his office, and returned by him to the next court of said county.

6. Be it further enacted, That the place having the highest number of votes on said corrected poll, shall, to all intents and purposes, be the place for erecting the court house and other public buildings for said county, and if at any time it shall appear to said commissioners that an equal number of votes has been given to to any two places named, they shall be counted as the two places having the greatest number of votes.

7. Be it further enacted, That if any one of the said commissioners shall fail to attend and perform the duties herein required of him by twelve o'clock of the second day, that then in that case it shall be lawful for those who do attend to associate with themselves some person of

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their choice, who shall proceed to perform all the duties of a commissioner, as though he was hereby appointed.  Each of said commissioners shall receive two dollars per day for the time he is necessarily engaged in performing the duties herein required of him, to be levied by the court of said county.

8. Be it further enacted, That all the locations heretofore made of sites for the erection of the court and other public buildings for said county, shall be deemed null, void and of no effect, until the provisions of this act shall be carried into effect.

9. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force from the sixth day of April next.

Just what the results of the election held in 1835 were can not be ascertained, but one fact is certain, that no one place secured the necessary majority of votes to secure for it the location of the county seat.  The June term 1835 of the court was held at the house of Abraham Vandal, but no mention is made in the minutes of any election held at that term of court as provided for, in section four of the act passed on February 13, 1835, in case no one place secured the number of votes necessary for a choice.  The following entry was made, however, showing that the location of the county seat was still uncertain, to-wit: "Abraham Vandal comes into court and relinquishes any claim to the iron that may be placed in the jail now being erected for the county, in case the court house and other public buildings are permanently located at any other point in said county."  The minutes of the July term, which was also held at the house of Abraham Vandal, however, indicate that such election as provided for was held at the June term for the following entry is made, to-wit: "A report made out by William Carnefix, one of the commissioners appointed to scrutinize the poll of said county, together with George Alderson and Charles Hughart, commissioners appointed by himself, was presented by the clerk to the court, agreeable to the act passed February 13, 1835.  The court being of the opinion, that same was not legally done on the part of said Carnefix, in the appointment of said commissioners, whereupon the court refused to receive the report, and ordered this opinion to be recorded."

At the August term of the court which met as before at the house of Abraham Vandal, a vote was taken to remove the court to Clement Vaughan's, which resulted in a tie vote: seven votes for and seven against removal.

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   At the September 1835 term a motion was made to remove the court to Miles Manser's store. The vote resulted as follows: For retaining the court at Vandal's 10 votes; For removing the court to Miles Manser's store, 9 votes.  At the same session, however, on motion to proceed to the erection of the public buildings for the county, the vote stood as follows: For erecting the buildings, 8 votes; Against the erection of buildings, 11 votes.

At the May term 1836 the justices from the section of New Haven were in the majority, and on motion to remove the court from Abraham Vandal's to Miles Manser's store the vote resulted as follows: For removing the court to Miles Manser's, 8 votes; For retaining court at Abraham Vandal's, 4 votes.  Whereupon it was ordered that the next term of court be held at Miles Manser's store, where the Superior Court at that time held its sessions.

At the June term 1836, at a session held on the 21st day of the month, a vote was taken to remove the court from Miles Manser's store to Abraham Vandal's, which resulted in a tie vote, ten votes for removal and ten against.  John Hill, a justice living near the Falls of Kanawha, was either present and refused to vote on the motion to remove the court to Vandal's or else he came into court after the vote was taken, for on the same day when a motion was put to move the court from Miles Manser's to the Falls of Kanawha, the vote resulted as follows: For the Falls of Kanawha, 11 votes; For Manser's store, 10 votes.  Evidently ten of the justices had retired from the session of court or had returned home leaving only eleven present, for later on the same day a motion was put to remove the court house from the Falls of Kanawha to Abraham Vandal's, the result being as follows: For Vandal's, 9 votes; For the Falls of Kanawha, 2 votes.  Thereupon it was ordered that the next term of court to be held at the house of Abraham Vandal.

The court convened again on the following day, June 22nd, and on motion to proceed to erect the public buildings the result was as follows: For proceeding, 10 votes; Against proceeding, 9 votes.  At the same session on that day, Joseph McNutt, John Phillips and Seton B. Ramsey were appointed commissioners to draft a form for a court house, and report at the August term. At th4e said August term, the court proceeded to consider the plan of a court house

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submitted to them by one of the commissioners, which report was received, and it was ordered that the building of same be let out to contract at the October term of court.

No further mention is made in the records of the county court or any other attempt on the part of the justices to remove the court from Abraham Vandal's, but the people of the other sections evidently were not satisfied, for some wanted the court house located at Clement Vaughan's, while others wasted to have same located at the Falls of Kanawha, as a result of which numerous citizens of the county made petition to the General Assembly, which body passed another act, March 11, 1837, to authorize the people of the county of Fayette to fix the site for the seat of justice by a majority of their votes.  The preamble to the act read as follows: "Whereas, by the petition of numerous citizens of the county of Fayette, it is represented that, although said county has been organized for several years since its creation, that their seat of justice remains, notwithstanding several attempts to fix its site, as yet unsettled; therefore, 1. Be it enacted &c."  The act is practically word for word similar to the act passed February 13, 1835, with possibly the following exceptions, to-wit: - The polls were to be opened on the third Tuesday in May 1837 for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people as to what point or pace a majority of them prefer as the permanent site for the seat of justice for said county.  Three places were to be voted upon, as before, "Falls of Kanawha," "Clement Vaughan's," and "Abraham Vandal's."  Section three of the act provided that on the tenth day after the close of election, at the court house (or present place of holding courts for said county) is should be the duty of William C. Haymond of Randolph, Thomas Bland of Lewis, Thomas M'Allister of Giles, and Andrew Sterrett of Braxton, to act as commissioners to examine and purge the polls.  There were six election precincts in Fayette county at this time.  They were located as follows:  Court House, Gauley Bridge, George Alderson's, Elizabeth Gwinn's, Joseph Harper's, and Clarkson Prince's.

At the election held in May 1837 the county seat was permanently located at Fayetteville, then called Vandalia, court being held in the house or tavern of Abraham Vandal.  The vote by which Vandalia won over New Haven and Kanawha Falls was obtained

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by strategy.  According to Colonel George W. Imboden, on the authority of his father-in-law, Colonel William Tyree, enough votes of qualified free holders to carry the election were secured by Hiram Hill, the first clerk of the Fayette county court, by a liberal distribution of one-acre tracts of land with no specified boundaries.

At the July term of 1837 of the court the following entry is made: "A report of the commissioners appointed by a late act of the legislature to scrutinize the polls of said county of Fayette, in relation to the county seat, was presented by the clerk, as required by said act to the court; and it was ordered that the court in compliance with said act do now forthwith proceed with the erection of a court house for said county, and that said report be recorded."  The court then proceeded to consider a plan for a court house, and unanimously agreed on the plan previously submitted by John Phillips, which specified that same was to be built of brick, and of dimensions laid down on said plan, subject to any alteration of the court until the building should be put under contract.  John Phillips, Seth Huse, O. L. Waite, William Blake, Sr., and John Hill were appointed as commissioners with full authority to put under contract the building of the court house, at the August term next; and were instructed to advertise the same at the door of the court house, and publish a like notification in the "Lewisburg Republican" and the "Kanawha Banner."

At the August term 1837 of the court, a plan for a Public Square on which to erect the public buildings, and also a plat of the town of Fayetteville on the land of Abraham Vandal as laid down by Francis Tyree, surveyor of the county, was presented to the court, and was received by the court unanimously; and it was ordered that the public buildings be erected thereon.  William Tyree was appointed a commissioner to superintend the erection of the court house for the county.  At this term the court also allowed Seth Huse the sum of Fifty Dollars for repairing a temporary Court House and for rent of the same for one year from the 16th day of August 1837.

At the August term 1838 the commissioners appointed to superintend the erection of the court house reported to the court that there must be convenient alterations in the construction thereof:  It was ordered that the commissioners be permitted to

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alter the shape of the roof so as to make a parapet roof and have the bench wall stand, and make other alterations such as they might think would add to its durability and convenience, provided same would could be accomplished without making any alteration in the contract with the builder.

The Court House was finally completed about June 1839 and at the term of court held in that month a levy for the sum of $1500 was laid for the Court House and Jail.

In the act creating the county of Fayette, it was specified that said county should be in and attached to the same judicial circuit with the county of Greenbrier, and that the circuit courts thereof should be held on the third Monday after the fourth Monday in April and September in every year; also that the courts of quarterly sessions of the county should be held in the months of March, June, August and November in every year, and that Fayette County should belong to the same chancery district for which a court was by law directed to be held at the court house of Greenbrier county.

An act was passed by the General Assembly, December 13, 1834, authorizing the Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of law and chancery for the county of Fayette, to fix upon a place for holding his courts permanently in said county until the public buildings shall be constructed.  The preamble reads: "Whereas, according to existing laws of this Commonwealth, doubts exist as to the place where the circuit superior court of law and chancery for the county of Fayette is required to be holden: For remedy whereof; Be it enacted &c."  The act provided that the Judge, by warrant under his hand and seal, should fix upon a place for holding the next term of court for the county, that the warrant should be addressed to the clerk of said court twenty days before the next term, that it should be the duty of the clerk to notify the sheriff of the place so fixed, that the sheriff should attend said court with a lawful grand jury and should give notice to the suitors and people generally of place so fixed upon; the act also provided that at said term of court the Judge should fix upon a place in the county for holding the courts permanently until the public building should be constructed.

From the records of the county court we learn that the place used for holding the courts permanently until the erection of the

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public buildings, was at the store of Miles Manser.  From the Gazetteer of Virginia published in 1835, we learn that Judge Duncan held his Superior Court of law and chancery on the first day of April and September.

Several subsequent acts were passed by the General Assembly pertaining to the time of holding the courts for Fayette county.  An act was passed February 28, 1835 which provided that the county court should thereafter be held on the third Tuesday in every month, except in the month of April, in which month the said court should be held on the second Tuesday.  An act was passed March 20, 1837 which provided that the circuit superior court of law and chancery for the 9th judicial district and 18th circuit, instead of the time then appointed by law, should be held for the county of Fayette commencing on the first day of April and the first day of September.  Another act passed January 15, 1838 provided that the time for holding the circuit superior court of law and chancery for the county of Fayette should be changed to the 31st day of March and the 31st day of August.  During the same session of the General Assembly and act was passed February 13, 1838 provided that the county courts of Fayette should be held on the third Tuesday of every month instead of the time then required by law.  The time for holding sessions of the county courts was again changed by the General Assembly by an act passed January 8, 1842 which provided the the sessions of said county court should thereafter be held on the Thursday after the second Tuesday in each month.  The time for holding circuit superior court of law and chancery was again changed by an cat passed January 6, 1844 which provided that the said courts should commence on the 30th day of March and the 30th day of August.  An act re-arranging the 18th judicial circuit was passed February 13, 1850, providing that the 18th judicial circuit should thereafter be composed of the following counties, to-wit: Fayette, Logan, Boone, Nicholas, Raleigh, Putnam and Kanawha; the act further provided that the Judge of the 18th circuit should not be required to change his place of residence.  At the same session of the assembly and act was passed February 28, 1850 which provided that the circuit superior court of law and chancery for the county of Fayette should commence on the 5th day of April and the 5th day of September.  The time for

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holding the circuit court for Fayette county was again charged by an act passed March 12, 1851 which provided that said court should commence on the 3rd day of April and the 3rd day of September.

Several acts were passed by the General Assembly establishing election precincts and making later changes pertaining to the same.  An act passed January 11, 1832, established three separate election precincts at the residences of Samuel Fleshman, Lemuel Jarrell, and Thomas Hopkins.  An act passed March 1st, 1832, provided that the separate election authorized to be held at the house of Samuel Fleshman be changed to the housed as the residence of James Sturgeon, located on the Kanawha turnpike; this act also established a separate election precinct at the house used as the residence of the widow Gwinn.  An act passed December 17, 1832, provided for a separate poll at the residence of William Morris, near Gauley Bridge.  An act passed February 27, 1835, changed the place of holding a separate election from the house of James Sturgeon to the house of George Alderson.  Another separate election was established by an act passed March 1, 1837, at the house of Clarkson Prince, who lived in the southern part of the county on the Blue Stone road.  An additional election precinct was established by an act passed January 8, 1842, at the storehouse occupied by Floyd & Company in the marshes of Cole river.  On March 20, 1848 an act was passed changing the place of holding the separate election from the house of Joseph Harper to the residence of Lemuel Jarrell.  An act passed March 6, 1848 established two separate election precincts, one at the house of Mason Coleman, situated at the mouth of Loop creek on the Kanawha river, the other at the residence of Colonel Samuel Fleshman, on the James River and Kanawha turnpike.  This act was amended by an act passed February 17, 1849, which specified that the separate poll required to be held at the residence of Colonel Samuel Fleshman, on the James River and Kanawha turnpike should, instead thereof, be held at the house used as the residence of Samuel Fleshman, on the Old Kanawha road, it being the same place originally intended for holding the separate election, but a mistake in describing the same.  This act also changed the place of holding a separate election from the house of George Alderson to the house of Miles Manser, in the town of New Haven; the act further created a separate election precinct

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at the house lately the residence of Hudson Campbell, on the James River and Kanawha turnpike.  An act passed March 17, 1851 changed the place of holding a separate election from the house of Mason Coleman to the house used as the residence of James Kincaid, Sr. on Loop creek.

An act was passed by the General Assembly on February 11, 1832, fixing the school quotas of certain counties therein mentioned, and directing the payment thereof, the quota for the county of Fayette being fixed at $139.35.

The foregoing text was taken directly, verbatim, from The History Of Fayette County, West Virginia as it was originally written.  This book was written by J. T. Peters and H. B. Carden.  It was published in 1926 by the Fayette County Historical Society, Inc., Fayetteville, West Virginia, and printed by Jarrett Printing Company, Charleston, West Virginia.  All rights reserved.

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