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Their act!r-s at that meeting init.' .ed a stormy chain of events that would result in moving the courthouse eight times in the next five years and stir up a controversy that eventually would result in the resignation of the Board president.
Present at the meeting were President Joseph Martin and members Napoleon Monet, Prancoise Haas, C. W. Mitchell and Luther F. Russ, as well as John J. Bradford, board clerk, and David Noye, county sheriff.
It seems quite reasonable that the Board was not particularly eager to move the county seat. It had been located at the Town of Gainesville since 1837.' The Gainesville courthouse was quite adequate. The county's court and land records were located there. Gainesville had a newspaper, the "Gainesville Star,* Carleton t Seabrook, proprietors, which did the county's printing and published its notices. Additionally, the Board had just constructed a new county jail.
The Board, after checking the votes, passed an order to the effect that "it appearing ... to the satisfaction of the Board that Gainesville received the highest number of votes for the said Seat of Justice, it is therefore ordered by the Board that the said Town of Gainesville be and it is from and after this date declared the Seat of Justice of this County."
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