Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-19

tune disease infancy or old age, have inno-
Gently become by necessity its oecupants-
Many are refined, intelligent and sensitive,
and are reluctantly compelled to appeal to
public charity, and it certainly is neither right.
humane or christian, to compel them, many
of them in their last hours on earth to dwell
with, be ANNOYED, and perhaps endangered by
noisy. profane and vulgar lunatics, and to abide
with them behind iron doors and qrcted rim
dous.
Your committee would therefore recon.
mend that some place, other than the county
Poor House, say the old Jail, should be APP
propriated for the safe keeping, necessary
confinement and proper treatment and care
OF all such insane persons, as, by reason of
violence or indecency are unsafe or unfit to
be at large and that perhaps tor the present.
such rs are inoftensive and decent may be SO
provided for, at the county House, as not 10
interfere with the comfort or safety of such
rational persons as may find in it a refuge
Your committee do also respectfully urge
the Importance of continuing committee on
insane persons, whose duty shall be at all
times to look after such persons and 10 sum
marily provide for and take care of all such,
and for that purpose your committee do rec
ommend that sufficient fund be raised and
Kept on hand, accessible at all times, to the
order OF said committee, so as to enable them
promptly to discharge their trust to the spirit
as well as the letter
Your committee during the current year.
through their chairman, have taken charge of
the county insane and have necessarily incur
red expenses to the amount Of $3.50. 25--item
lied bills of which are herewith submitted -
Your committee would also recommend the
adoption of the annexed memorial and reso.
luton. THOMAS LAIRD,
j. w. SEATON,
T, G. STEPHENS.
Ga motion of Mr.. WooLLEY the
above report was received. Mr. WAR
NER then presented the
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON COUNTY
PROPERTY
The committee on county property ask
leave to report:
Having looked through the new Jail build
ing, we have to say we are much pleased with
its arrangement and the execution OF the plan
of brilding.
The old jail we do not find to be adapted TO
the confinement of insane persons and rec
ommend that they be kept elsewhere.
We recommend that measures be taken to
construct tire>proof vault of the room ad-
joining the Treasurers office for use of the
Treasurer, County Judge and other officers,
as needed Tor books and papers. And that a
small safe be purchased for use of Treasurer's
office in lieu of the one lately broken
We recommend that floor be laid in the
attic of the county Poor House, and that said
room be arranged and prepared az a sleeping
apartment for some Of the paupers kept there
as there is now deficiency of room for said
purpose: that the common day sitting room
be enlarged by removing one or more parti-
tions, TO accommodate the increasing family
OF pauperS there gathered together and yearly
lncreaslng also that ten or twelve cheap iron
bedsteads be purchased for use, to be placed
IN the attic chamber OF said poor house build
ing We also recommend that certain par.
titions be removed so as to increase the size
of the dining room, which room now is quite
too small
We recommend that new barn SOx4O feet
on ground plan and / . feet high be built for
use Of the poor farm: also that the present
building used as stable and granary be re-
paired by new stills, siding and root, and
suitable under wall to said stable be placed
under the said building, raising the building
or feet above the present position, and
otherwise properly repaired as the building is
COW IN very poor and decayng condition.
j. WARNER,
Chairman of committee on county property
j. w. SEAToN read the report laid
over from morning session, as follows:
REPORT OF JAIL BUILDING COMMITTEE:
The building committee on county Jail,
having finished the labor assigned them by
the Board of Supervisors, submit the following:
As reported to the Board at the last annu-
al session contract was made by your com
| mttee with Messrs, Haugh 4 Co. of Ind:anp
ais, for the erection of Jail at Lancaster, for
the sum of S20, 500, TO be completed on or
before Oct. lst, 1872. The building was fin
ished on the l4th Of Sept. last, on which day
it was accepted by the building committee
Your committee personally superintendent
| the work curing its progress and take pleas
ure in certifying that the contractors perform
| ed their work iii most complete and work
manlike manner from foundation to roof and
We now believe that Grant county now pos
sesses the best prison in the State.
For the better security and convenience of
the Jail your committee deemed it necessary
to make the following changes from the orig
| inal plans of the architect:
lst Adding two feet to height Of founda-
ton walls, in order to bring first floor to bet
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for heating furnace
2nd In view of the great weight of building,
adding six inches to thickness of basement
walls
3rd. Providing drain and sink for waste
water from cistern
I 4th. Providing hot air registers in war
| dens room and kitchen.
9th. An iron instead ofwoden sink in kitchen
9th. Ceiling kitchen with lumber instead of
plaster.
7th Providing closet for the warden's
room in vacant place under the stairs.
For this extra work the folowfngis an item
lied account:
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