Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-01-22
SECOND DAY.

Obus II, Q " CiSth3 A.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Minutes were read and approved.
Several accounts were read and dis
posed Of
A resolution was adopted instructing
the clerk 10 enter into contract with G..
S. Dunbar for lease of room for Sheriff S
office, jury room, ETC., and designating
sac room rs such.
A resolution was also adopted desig
mating the court room at the county seat
as the Office of county judge, and in
structing the clerk to notify said county
Judge that the said office is now ready for
him TO occupy.
On motion of Sup Dunbar the follow
ing resolutions were. adopted
Resolved, That the resolutions OF the
Board of Supervisors, passed on the 18th
day of June, 1861, and recorded on page
254 in the journal of the Board of Su-
pervis ors, in relation to aiding families of
volunteers, all after the first one (which
specifies the amout per month to be paid
by the county to families of yolunteers),
be rescnded.
Resolved, That the clerk of the
Board of Supervisors is hereby constitu-
ted disbursing agent of the volunteer fund
of the county, whose duty it shall be to
pay out all orders which may be placed
in his hands by the Board of Supervis-
ors, upon the proper parties applying
therefor.
Tho following resolution offered by
Sup. Fuller was adopted
Resoired, That the order of the
Board of Supervisors adopted at their
November session, 1861, in relation to
aiding the families of volunteers be
amended I'y striking out the words
Judge of the county court where they
occur in the 10th line thereof, and in
serting in lieu thereof the following, to-
wit: clerk Of the Board of Supervisors
which order, when so amended, shall
read rs follows:-
The Supervisors of the county OF
Pierce do order and determine as follows
That a special tax Of the SUN of 5000
be levied OH the taxable property, to be
used as fund for the support of the
families of volunteers from Pierce coun-
ty, under an net of the Legislature APP
proved May 10Th, 1861, and also in
compliance with a resolution of this
Board, passed June 18th, 1861.
1t is hereby further ordered, that eve
ny person claiming any interest in said
fund must exhibit to tho clerk of the
Board of Supervisors certificate in the
following form:-
I, hereby certify that
I am n resident of Pierce County, and
was such resident, rs well as the family
of the volunteer, at the time of volun-
teering hereinafter mentioned; that |
am the representative of the family Of
@ "a volunteer of Pierce
County, now in the service of The State
of Wisconsin, or of the United States,
who entered such service /;
and that said family is legally entitled to
the sum of five dollars per month since
sail e volunteered in such
service. .raa as
/ Dated. Signed.
Certified by justice or notary.
l hereby certify that the above affidavit
is true, and the claim therein set forth a
just and. legal one.
Signed A. B.
Chairman Of Town Board.
The following resolutions, offered by
Sup Dunbar, were adopted -
RESOLVED, That the clerk of the Board
of Supervisors is hereby instructed to
get two hundred blank certificates printed
for the use Of families of volunteers who
may wish to apply to tho county fund FOR
assistance, which the said clerk is hereby
instructed to distribute TO the several
chairman of the town boards, at bis
discretion.
Resolved, That the sum of three hun