The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-04-13
Of The Town Meet
ing.-TOyn of River Falls
April 9Th. 1859.

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The meeting was called to order by
the Chairman Of the Supervisors, at the
time appointed by law. S. w. Dickinson
was appointed assistant Clerk. The in
spectors and clerks of election were duly
sworn, AMI proclamation was made that
the polls of the election were open. The
order of bus ness was then read by the
Chairman.
Report was read by the Town Clerk,
and by vote Of the meeting, referred to a
special committee Of five, viz: Joel Foster,
G. B. Cox, A. D. Andrews, H. A. Farm
ham and Hosea B. Bates.
Voted to elect one assessor.
Voted to cleo: three cons tables.
Voted to elect oycrseers Of highways
viue voce.
Adjourned for one hour
Polls reopened at one o'clock p. M.
COMMITTEES reported as follows
Your committee have attended to the
duty assigned them and would beg leave
to recommend the adoption of the report
Of the Supervisors with the following ex-
ceptions:-
First: That portion relating to tax GER
| tifcates seems to us obscure and indefinite
and in our opinion needs further cxplana-
nation.
| In reference to the recommendation of an
appropr alton for building bridge across
tho Knlckinic your committee cannot
agree and have concluded to submit it to
the N citing W thput further comment.
% L FOSTER, Chairman.
Adopted that part of the report agreed
upon by the committee.
Explanation was made by the Chair
man and Clerk about the tax certificates.
Motion was made and carried TO accept
the explanation. A motion to appoint an
investigating committee was lost. A res
olution to appropriate sl25 to build a
bridge across the Kinickinic. after long
debate, was lost. A motion to appropri-
ate s75 for the same purpose, was also
| lost. -.:.....,.-..,
Oyerseers of highways were elected as
follows: ..u-, ..-....... ~.
Road Dis. No. 1. VIM. H. Moore; No.
2. Lowell Gore; No. 8, Asaph Pratt; No.
4, J. "A. Short; Ne. s. VIM. II. Odell;
No. 6, g.. w. Nichols: No. Z, Thomas
Randall; No. 8, A. Grant; No. 9, Edwin
Tubbs. e..
The following resolutions were offered
separately, and passed: a
| ResoIved, that the Supervisors Of this
town, be and are hereby instructed to linn
it the amount paid for town surveying, to
$3.50 per day. M
Resolved, that the Town Treasurer be,
and is hereby instructed to pay the Treas
| urers of the different school districts, no
more than the amount collected of each
tax raised. and the amount of returned
taxes that may be received from County
Treasurer.
Resozved, that the Town Clerk be in
structed to make ont taxes for school dis
tricts by computing their respective taxes
at the nearest half mill ON dollar, not
falling under the amount voted by each
district; and that the full amount raised
be credited to each district, and charged
to Town Treasurer.
Voted to refund to S. W. Dickinson
the sum of eight dollars. 1t being town
money which deprecated on his hands
while town treasurer.
Voted that the proceedings of this
meeting be published in the River Falls
JOURNAL, and that the sum of five dollars
be appropriated to pay for the same.
At four o'clock proclamation was made
that the polls would be closed in one hour.
Atfse o'clock the polls were closed and
the boxes turned. The votes for Town
! officers were counted, and statement
made of the same.
A declaration of town officers elected,
was then made.
( VIM. H. Moore Chm.
Supervisors Charles Hutchinson.
Milton Webster
! C1erk-Myron Packard.
Treasurer-C. j. Rikei.
assessor A. Short.
School jSup't.-Lute A. Taylor.
d. S. Farnsworth.
Jus fso's A. Grant.
G. j. Riker.
Consta5zes J. H. Lord.
/ Hoyt Odell.
The vote on the judicial ticket was as
follows
Paine l22. Lynde 80.