halls county was fixed temporarily "at the house of D. K. Weldon;" of Cowlitz, at Monticello; and of Skamania, at the "south-east corner of the land claim of F. A. Chenoweth."
Olympia was fixed upon as the temporary seat of government, the judicial districts were defined, and the judges assigned to them as follows: the first dis- trict comprised Walla Walla, Skamania, Clarke, Cow- litz, Wahkiakum, and Pacific counties, Judge McFad- den; second district, Lewis, Chehalis, Thurston, and Sawamish counties. Judge Monroe; third district. Pierce, King, Island, Clallam, Jefferson, and What- com, Judge Lander. At the second session of the legislature Lander was assigned to the second district, and the judge of that district to the third, which brought the chief justice to the more central portion of the territory. In their districts the judges were required to reside, and to hold two terms of the dis- trict court annually in each county, except in those which were attached to some other for judicial pur- poses, like Walla Walla, which was attached to Skamania, and Chehalis to Thurston.
The first federal court held in Washington after the organization of the territory was by the proclama- tion of the governor on the 2d day of January, 1854, at Cowlitz landing, by Judge Monroe, who in May held regular terms in all the counties of his district according to the act of the legislature, and to the
H. L. Yesler; treasurer, William P. Smith; superintendent of schools, Henry A. Smith; assessor, John C. Holgate; justices of the peace, John A. Chase, S. L. Grow, S. W. Russell; constables, B. L. Johns, S. B. Simmons, James N. Roberts.
Jefferson county commissioners, J. P. Keller, William Dunn, F. W. Pet- tygrove; treasurer, J. K. Thomdyke; sheriff, W. T. Sayward; judge of pro- bate, L. B. Hastings; auditor, A. A. Plummer; justices of the peace, J. P. Kel- ler, William Webster, F. W. Pettygrove, J. K. Thorndyke; assessor, J. Clinger.
Clallam county commissioners, E. H. McAlmond, E. Price, Daniel F. Brownfield; sheriff, Charles Bradshaw; justice of the peace, G. H. Gerrish; assessor, J. C. Brown; treasurer, Mr Fitzgerald; judge of probate, John Margrave; auditor, G. B. Moore.
Island county commissioners, John Alexander, John Crockett, Ira B. Powers; sheriff, Hugh Crockett; auditor, R. H. Lausdale; assessor, Hum- phry Hill.
