OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS, TESTIMONY, AND ARGUMENTS, IN THE Trial of James H. Hardy, District Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District, BEFORE THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, SITTING AS A HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. SUMNER & CUTTER, OFFICIAL REPORTERS. SACRAMENTO: BENJ. P. AVERY, STATE PRINTER. 1862. PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS IN THE TRIAL OF JUDGE J. H. HARDY. FIRST DAY---APRIL 28, 1862. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE TRIAL. ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT. President Chellis.-The hour which the Senate has fixed for the commencement of the investigation into the charges preferred by the Assembly, in Articles of Impeachment, against the Hon. James H. Hardy, Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District of this State, has arrived. The Rules which you have adopted seem to provide that the President of the Senate shall preside during the progress of the trial. As you have elected a President pro tem. who is intimately versed in a knowledge of the law, I think that, in justice to yourselves, in justice to the Hon. gentleman who is to be tried by you, and in justice to myself, I should vacate the President's Chair in favor of the President pro tem., the Hon. Senator from San Francisco, Mr. Shafter. Hon. James McM. Shafter, President pro tem. of the Senate, assumed the President's Chair. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIAL REPORTERS. Mr. Merritt.-Previous to the organization of the Senate as a High Court of Impeachment, I desire to offer resolutions having reference to |