of them are retained in the Code, which went into effect in January, 1873.  It created eleven judicial districts and defined the jurisdiction and powers of every judicial officer in the State, from a Supreme Judge to a Justice of the Peace.  It provided that the then incumbent District Judges should continue to be the Judges of the new Districts according to their respective numbers.  At the same time I introduced a bill dividing the county of Trinity, and creating that of Klamath; and also a bill dividing the county of Yuba, and creating that of Nevada; and I so arranged it that out of Trinity and Klamath a new Eighth Judicial District was created, and out of Yuba, Nevada, and Sutter a Tenth Judicial District.  Thus Turner, being Judge of the Eighth District, was sent to the then comparative wilderness of Trinity and Klamath; and the Tenth District was to have a new judge.  After this bill was passed I presented petitions from the citizens of Yuba County, and of that part which now constitutes Nevada County, praying for the impeachment of Turner, and his removal from office, charging as grounds for it his incompetency from ignorance to discharge its duties, his arbitrary and tyrannical conduct towards the County Judge and members of the Marysville bar, the particulars of which I have related, his contemptuous treatment of the writ of habeas corpus, and his general immoral conduct.

A committee was thereupon appointed to which the petitions were referred, with power to send for persons and papers.  The testimony taken by them fully established the charges preferred.  Indeed, there was no serious attempt made to refute them.  The only evidence offered in behalf of the Judge was that of a few persons who testified that they had been treated by him with courtesy in some instances and that good order had been maintained in court when they were present.  There is no doubt that the impeachment would have been ordered but for a strong desire of the members to bring the session to a close, and a report which had obtained credence, that after the passage of the court bill, by which Turner was sent out of the eighth district, I was content to let the question of impeachment be indefinitely postponed.  The testimony taken was reported by the Committee on the 15th of April.  His impeachment would have required a trial by the Senate, which would have prolonged the session at least a month, and to this members were much averse.  Parties came to me and said, “Judge, what’s the use of pressing this matter.  You have sent Turner where there are only grizzly bears and Indians; why not let him remain there?  He can do no harm there.”  I replied that he was not fit to be a judge anywhere, and I refused assent to a postponement of the matter.  Afterwards, when the vote was about to be taken, a Senator and a personal friend of Turner, misinterpreting some expressions of mine that I desired to bring the matter to a speedy close, privately stated to members of the House that I had