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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...act as commissioners to contract for and superintend the repairing of the court house and gaol and making the same fit for public use." To this end the sum of forty dollars was appropriated by the court. In 1798 David Vance appeared on the bench as associate justice and Thomas Fawcett at the August term in 1799, Nm. Wells in 1800, Jacob Martin and John Milligan in 1801, and this was the form of court until Ohio was admitted to the union as a state." The first prosecuting attorney under the constitution of 1802 was Silas Paul, who appeared with staff in hand and his hair dressed in a cue. He lived on Willis creek just north of the town, and had been admitted to the bar in 1800. The salary was fixed at eighty dollars per year, with the stipulation that it be paid quarterly. He practiced for many years and died in 1857, many of his descendants still residing in the county. Judge Pease, of Trumbull county, was the presiding judge in the Third District, of which Jefferson was a part, and Philip Cable and Jacob Martin were associate justices. Judge Pease was but twenty-seven years of age and even more youthful in appearance. While on the bench Judge Pease decided that the statute giving-justices of the peace jurisdiction in cases where more than twenty dollars were claimed was unconstitutional and therefore null and void. There was immediate demand for his impeachment, and he was cited to appear before the State Senate as a court of impeachment, but the trial resulted in his acquittal. He continued in his office until the close of the December term of 1809, and was succeeded by Benjamin Ruggles, who first presided in 1810. Ruggles was succeeded by Judge Tappan in 1816. "Rudolph Bair, George Humphrey, John Milligan, Nathan Upde...