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Our ratio of people to judges is just super high, she said. Sen. Travis Hutson and Stevenson filed identical bills, SB 816 and HB 417, requesting an additional county judge. While those haven t advanced, the request was included in HB 5301. The cost to the state for an additional judge would be about $300,000 a year for the judge and support staff, Stevenson said. St. Johns County s population, caseload grows The county is part of the 7th Judicial Circuit Court, which also includes Flagler, Putnam and Volusia counties. Judges in the circuit are based at several courthouses in the region. In St. Johns County, four circuit judges and two county court judges hear cases at the county courthouse. ....
Polly wanted to make certain that a record that she had become a free person would be protected. Polly had been an enslaved Black person who received her freedom. To assure that, she recorded her manumission paper with the Clerk of the Court of St. Johns County, East Florida. Polly would continue to guard her freedom document itself. By recording a copy of the paper with the clerk, she would be able to prove that she was free even if the document were lost, stolen or destroyed. Any of those events could indeed be a tragedy for her. Polly took her document to the clerk s office, at that time in today s Governor s House. That building served as the courthouse, clerk s office and housed other government offices. Two centuries ago, before the technology to duplicate images existed, papers brought to the clerk s office were copied verbatim by a copyist into bound books and returned to the owner. ....
Tony Proctor sold his 185 acres in 1824 for $185. The deed, which Proctor signed with his mark, can be viewed and read in the online exhibit. Elias Gould purchased Proctor s land and would transfer ownership later. Edinburg held onto his land until 1831, when he sold his 100 acres to John Hanson for $234. Edinburg too signed the deed transferring his property with his mark. At this time, there many documents were signed with a mark whether by free Blacks, or whites. Many women also had not been taught to read or write and signed with marks. Proctor may not have known how to sign his name, but his knowledge of Indian languages made him invaluable. In Proctor s paperwork for the land grant, the governor of Spanish East Florida wrote of Proctor s service as a translator as well as a homesteader. ....
St. Johns County s clerk of court said the office cut ties with a debt collection company a few years ago after learning of a bribery investigation involving the company and its owner. The statement came in response to a request for information from certain Florida clerks of court this month from Florida s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. An indictment was filed in 2019 against Penn Credit Corporation and Donald Donagher Jr., who led the business during that time. The indictment says that Donagher and Penn Credit gave and offered to give gifts and services to several clerks of court, or people or groups affiliated with them, in an attempt to get favorable treatment for Penn Credit in the award, allocation and retention of debt collection work. ....