Bartlett v. Franklin Co. Court

■ In January, 1796, Bartlett was commissioned and qualified as a magistrate for the county of Franklin, but failed (and as it was alleged from an unsound .or deranged mind) to sit as a magistrate for several years, during which time the constitution being changed so as to require the two eldest magistrates of the county to bo recommended by the county court to the governor for him to appoint one of them as sheriff. Bartlett being the eldest magistrate, and wishing to fill the office of sheriff, in May, 1802, offered to take his seat as a magistrate, but was refused that privilege by the…