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committee to consider the building of a Court House, Clerk’s Office and Jail. On April 16, the Commission decided that Washington was the worst suitable location for the county’s public buildings and ordered I William A. Lane, Daniel Mason, Henry R. Menefee, William Slaughter and Gabriel Parks to contract for and supervise the erection of these buildings. Contract for the Court House and Clerk’s Office was awarded to Malcum (sic) H. Crawford for $4500.00 and that for the jail to John W. Fant for $2600.00 specifying separate quarters for debtor prisoners.
The Court Officers of 1833 were: Judge Superior Court — Richard H. Field Sheriff — William A. Lane Commissioner of Revenue — William Menefee Clerk — William J. Menefee Prosecutor — Horatio I. Moffett Coroner—Gabriel Tutt' The members of the first Grand Jury were — Bird Eastham, Foreman, Evans Bragg, Alfred Dearing, Anson Dealing, James Fletcher, Thomas Fletcher, William Fletcher, John Groves, Ezekiel Haines, John Jenkins, William E. Jones, John Kaylor, Richard Kinsley, Jones Menefee, Warner Miller, James Moore and William Thornhill. *
The lawyers' of the county, recorded in the Order Book as “Gentleman,” were: Minor Gibson, John S. Homer, Horatio Gates Moffett, Barlow Shackelford and John S. Turner. While the grand jury acted on a large number of cases in the first two years, the offenses were generally of minor nature, such as those that arise from the
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