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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail from Cheri Bunker regarding the State of Jefferson Sweeney, Kathleen Subject: FW: State of Jefferson - Mark Baird speaks about Jefferson Declaration for Statehood Attachments: Butte County Declaration 9-4-13.pdf From: Cheri Bunker [mailto:cbunkie@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 10:58 AM To: Connelly, Bill; Lambert, Steve; Teeter, Doug; Kirk, Maureen; Wahl, Larry; Cheri Bunker; Vicki Coots; diogenese@att.net; bill@crosshatchgames.com; 'oanne.rcealden • .mail.com; steenscot@sbcglobal.net; mike@mikewacker.com; casev@vanmancharters.com; leslie.saltveaol.com Subject: Fwd: State of Jefferson - Mark Baird speaks about Jefferson Declaration for Statehood Subject: State of Jefferson - Mark Baird speaks about Jefferson Declaration for Statehood Dear Butte County Supervisors, I have attached the You Tube video of Mark Baird speaking on the Declaration to withdraw from the State of California, to the mutual benefit of rural and frontier counties of Northern California. Also included is a copy of the proposed Declaration of Withdraw. There is a large contingency of constituents that are in favor of this separation. On September 23, at 5:30PM, Mark Baird will be speaking to Butte County residents at the Thermalito Grange Hall, 479 Plumas Ave. We cordially invite you to attend this meeting. Sincerely, Cheri Bunker 530-591-9018 Check out this video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/b9VOiXhvm8Q Cheri Bunker Sent from my iPad r (C B6t � J� DECLARATION TO THE CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE SUPPORTING THE WITHDRAWL OF BUTTE COUNTY FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WHEREAS, there are times in our history when it is apparent that the political separation of one people from another becomes necessary, both for the survival of the one, as well as, the continued well being of the other; and WHEREAS, the Butte County Board of Supervisors recognizes the lack of representation for rural and frontier counties in the California Legislature and the Board is aware of an increasing tendency by the State of California to exercise legislative and fiscal malfeasance in the form of an illegal fire tax, property rights violations, and assaults upon Second Amendment rights, as well as, disregard for other inalienable rights of the Citizens of Butte County; and WHEREAS, State and Federal Agencies have, through aggressive regulation and reinterpretation of long-established laws have denied the County of Butte, its businesses, and its citizens access to our most abundant natural resources, causing untold harm to our economy, as well as to our health and public safety; and WHEREAS, State and Federal Agencies have, through a process commonly known as "sue and settle", compromised longstanding principles and priorities of beneficial use and stewardship of our natural resources while sacrificing public processes and open government; and WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Butte, has come to the realization that the State of California is ungovernable in its present form and the People of Butte have asked the Board to support this resolution for the Health, Welfare, and Public Safety of the people; and WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors recognizes that soon after statehood, credible efforts were made to split the state, with 45 proposals by 1998, including the strong Jefferson State movement of 1941 and the election results of June 2, 1992, when citizens of 27 counties by county advisory votes, voted in favor of splitting the State of California. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that the Butte County Board of Supervisors desires, with the involvement of our citizens, and hopefully with the involvement of other California Counties within rural California, to withdraw Butte County from the State of California and Start Over by helping to form a new state which represents the needs, provides opportunity, and protects the rights, liberties, public health, and safety of the people of a new State of Jefferson; and BE IT FURTHER DECLARED that, pursuant to the requirements of Section 3 of Article IV of the United States Constitution, the Butte County Board of Supervisors requests that the California Legislature approve the withdrawal from the State of California of the lands described below, to be incorporated in a new state along with the lands of other Counties, within or without the current boundaries of the State of California, which Counties declare similar intentions: The boundaries of Butte County are as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of Yuba, in the center line of the Feather River, opposite the mouth of Honcut Creek; thence northeasterly up the Honcut Creek and the South Honcut Creek, following their various meanders and along the boundary line as surveyed in the year 1901 by B. L. McCoy, County Surveyor of Butte County, and Jason R. Meek, County Surveyor of Yuba County, to its intersection with the south line of Sec. 31, T. 19 N., R. 6 E., M. D. B. & M., and running thence east to the southwest corner of the SE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of Sec. 31, said township and range; thence north three-quarters of a mile; thence east one-quarter of a mile; thence north one-quarter of a mile, to the corner common to Secs. 29, 30, 31, and 32, said township and range; thence east one-half mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 29 and 32, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the center of Sec. 29; thence east one-half mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 28 and 29, said township and range; thence north three-quarters of a mile; thence east one-quarter of a mile; thence north three-quarters of a mile; thence east one-quarter of a mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 16 and 21, said township and range; thence north one and one-half miles to the center of Sec. 9, said township and range; thence east one and one-half miles to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 10 and 11, said township and range; thence south one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 10, 11, 14, and 15, said township and range; thence east two miles to the corner common to Secs. 12 and 13, T. 19 N., R. 6 E., and Secs. 7 and 18, T. 19 N., R. 7 E., M. D. B. & M.; Thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 1 and 12, T. 19 N., R. 6 E. , and Secs. 6 and 7,T. 19 N., R. 7 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence east three miles to the corner common to Secs. 3, 4, 9, and 10,T. 19 N., R. 7 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence south one-half mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 9 and 10, said township and range; thence east one and one-half miles to the center of Sec. 11, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 2 and 11, said township and range; thence east one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 1, 2, 11, and 12, said township and range; thence north two miles to the corner common to Secs. 25, 26, 35, and 36, T. 20 N., R. 7 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence east one-half mile to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 25 and 36, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the center of Sec. 25, said township and range; thence east one and one-half miles to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 29 and 30, T. 20 N., R. 8 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence north one-quarter of a mile; thence east one-half of a mile; thence north one and one-quarter miles to the one-quarter section corner between Secs. 17 and 20, said township and range; thence east one and one-half miles to the corner common to Secs. 15, 16, 21, and 22, said township and range; thence northerly to the common corner of Plumas, Butte and Yuba; thence northerly to the northeast corner of the SE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of Sec. 9,T. 20. N., R. 8 E.; Thence west one-half mile; thence north three-quarters of a mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 4 and 9, said township and range; thence west to the corner common to Secs. 4, 5, 8 and 9, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 4 and 5; thence west one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 5 and 6, said township and range; thence north one-half mile, more or less, to the north corner of Secs. 5 and 6, said township and range; thence west on township line one and a quarter miles, more or less, to the southwest corner of Sec. 31, T. 21 N., R. 8 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence north on township line, two miles to the east corner of Secs. 24 and 25,T. 21 N., R. 7 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 23, 24, 25, and 26, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 23 and 24, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the center of said Sec. 23; thence north one-half mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 14 and 23, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 14, 15, 22 and 23, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 10, 11, 14 and 15, said township and range; thence west one mile; thence north one mile; thence west one mile; thence north two miles; thence west one mile; thence north one mile; thence west one mile, to the east corner of Secs. 24 and 25,T. 22 N., R. 6 E., M. D. B. & M.; Thence north, on the township line, one mile to the east corner of Secs. 13 and 24, said township and range; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 13, 14, 23, and 24, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 11, 12, 13 and 14, said township and range; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 10, 11, 14 and 15, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 2, 3, 10 and 11; thence west one-quarter mile; thence north one-quarter mile; thence west one-quarter mile; thence north one-quarter mile to the center of Sec. 3, said township and range; thence west three-quarters of a mile; thence north one-half mile to the north boundary of Sec. 4, said township and range; thence west on township line one-half mile; thence north one mile; thence west three-quarters of a mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 29 and 32, T. 23 N., R. 6 E., M. D. B. & B.; thence north one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 20 and 29, said township and range; thence west one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 19 and 30, said township and range; thence north one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 18 and 19, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the west corner of said Secs. 18 and 19; thence north, on township line, one mile to the east corner of Secs. 12 and 13,T. 23 N., R. 5 E.; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 11, 12, 13 and 14, said township and range; Thence north one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 11 and 12; thence west one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 10 and 11, said township and range; thence north one- half mile to the corner common to Secs. 2, 3, 10, and 11, said township and range; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 3, 4, 9, and 10, said township and range; thence north one mile to the north corner of said Secs. 3 and 4, two miles to the corner common to Secs. 27, 28, 33, and 34,T. 24 N., R. 5 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 28, 29, 32, and 33, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 20, 21, 28, and 29, said township and range; thence east one mile to the corner common to Secs. 21, 22, 27, and 28, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 15, 16, 21, and 22, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 16 and 21; thence north two miles to the quarter section between Secs. 4 and 9, said township and range; thence east one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 3, 4, 9, and 10, said township and range; thence north one mile to the north corner of Secs. 3 and 4, said township and range, two miles to the corner common to Secs. 27, 28, 33, and 34, T. 25 N., R. 5 E., M. D. B. & M.; Thence west one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 28 and 33; thence north two miles to the quarter section corner between Secs. 16 and 21, said township and range; thence east one- half mile to the corner common to Secs. 15, 16, 21, and 22, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 9, 10, 15, and 16, said township and range; thence east one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 10 and 15; thence north one and one-half miles to the center of Sec. 3, said township and range; thence east one mile to the center of Sec. 2, said township and range; thence north one-half mile, more or less,to the quarter section corner on the north boundary of said Sec. 2; thence east on the township line to the quarter section corner on the south boundary of Sec. 35, T. 26 N., R. 5 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence north one mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 26 and 35, said township and range; thence east one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 25, 26, 35, and 36, said township and range; thence north one mile to the corner common to Secs. 23, 24, 25, and 26, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the quarter section corner between said Secs. 23 and 26; Thence north one and one-half miles to the center of Sec. 14, said township and range; thence west one-half mile to the quarter section corner between Secs. 14 and 15, said township and range; thence north one-half mile to the corner common to Secs. 10, 11, 14, and 15, said township and range; thence west one mile to the corner common to Secs. 9, 10, 15, and 16, said township and range; thence north two and one-half miles to the quarter section corner between Secs. 33 and 34, T. 27 N., R. 5 E., M. D. B. & M.; thence west one and three-quarters miles, more or less, to the Chico and Humboldt road at the corner common to Plumas, Butte, and Tehama; thence southwesterly on the southeasterly line of Tehama to the southeast corner of Tehama, at point of intersections of Rock Creek and the southern line of T. 24 N., M. D. B.; thence west on said township line to the Sacramento River; thence down said river to the southwest corner of the Llano Seco grant; thence northeasterly and southeasterly along the eastern boundary of Glenn to the northeastern corner of Colusa; thence on the Colusa east line, down Butte Creek, to the northwest corner of Sutter; thence east on the north line of Sutter to the Feather River; thence down the Feather River to the place of beginning. (Added by Stats. 1947, Ch. 424.) PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 24th day of September 2013, by the following vote. AYES: NOES: ABSENT ABSTAIN: ,Chairman Butte County Board of Supervisors ATTEST. COUNTY CLERK BY Deputy