Prohibition archive (1 risultati)

Woodland, California Judicial Township justice court fee book, 1922 to 1930, recording eight years of misdemeanor enforcement and the transfer of fines from R. W. Harrison's courtroom to Yolo County and California fiscal offices. Ninety nine of the ledger's 100 pages are completed with defendants' names, abbreviated charges, fines, fees, and docket references. Entries for liquor possession and other alcohol offenses appear beside motor vehicle violations, gambling, disturbing the peace, assault, battery, and local ordinance cases, while attached receipts document the sums Harrison remitted to county and state authorities. Harrison, R. W. General Fee Book, Justice of the Peace, Woodland Judicial Township. Woodland, California, April 1922 to June 1930. 100 pages, 99 completed in manuscript. 10.5 × 16 inches. Each monthly section provides columns for the date, "Description of Work or Service," fees, and remarks; Harrison supplied case names and abbreviated causes, marked payments received, calculated monthly totals, and cited corresponding docket numbers. County auditor's receipts pasted over the entries certify payments for fines and fees. Receipts from the California Controller's Department and State Treasurer's Office record further transfers. The state documents bear the printed name of Treasurer Charles G. Johnson, while the county forms carry signatures and date stamps from the Yolo County auditor and treasurer. The ledger covers most of national Prohibition, which began in 1920, and records alcohol prosecutions as one category within the ordinary monthly business of a township court. Its growing number of motor vehicle matters documents the corresponding expansion of traffic enforcement, often through small fines entered beside assault, gambling, peace disturbance, and fish and game cases. Yolo County Archives maintains 18 linear feet of justice court dockets dating from circa 1878 to 1959, including criminal, civil, small claims, and motor vehicle records whose entries generally identify the township, litigants, complaint, and proceedings; Harrison's fee book supplies the financial sequence that followed those proceedings, from the assessment of a fine through its remittance to county or state government. Quarter leather binding chipped at the outer corners; spine covering stripped, although the binding remains tight; several threads loose at the edges; staining and discoloration to the front cover. Overall good condition. A nearly complete fiscal register of Prohibition era policing, traffic regulation, and misdemeanor justice in Woodland Judicial Township. …