River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-12-02


during the several hours Of each day, and
at such several rates Of ferriage as the said
Board shall order and direct, then this OBJ
legation shall be void else, TO remain in
full force.
Witness our hands and seals this llth
day Of November, 1873.
LUKE 7. wHITCoMB, TsEALl
G. W. McMURPHEY, [sGALl
wM. J. CORP, rsrALl
In the presence Of
WIN. Il. GATES,
CARLOS MoCnAY.
cnARTER.
The Board Of Supervisors OF Pierce
County do order and determine that l.. p.
Whitcomb, of the city of Prescott, is here
by authorized and licensed to have the ex-
elusive right which right is hereby grant.
ed to the said L. P. Whitcomb, to keep and
mainta ferry TO run from the city of
Prescott, in the County Of Pierce and State
OF Wisconsin, to Point Douglass, in Wash
ingion County in the State of Minnesota,
for the full term Of EN- years from this late;
and il is further ordered, that the said K.
p. Whitcomb shall keep good and sufficient
boats for the purpose of transporting across
said forty, teams, passengers, and live
stock, and shall attend and keep said ferry
running when it shall be necessary to
cross persons, stock or teams as aforesaid,
from sunrise in the morning until nine
o'clock in the evening, except Sundays,
when he shall not be compelled to run said
ferry from o'clock in the forenoon till
O'clock in the afternoons; and it is hereby
further ordered, that the rates for crossing
said ferry shall be fixed as follows
Double teams, twenty (20) cents; for each
additional span of horses or yoke of oxen,
ten (l0) cents; single team, ten (l0) cents;
foetmanrfve (5) cents; person and horse,
ten (l0) cents; equine animals and neat
cattle each, Ave t5) cents; sheep and hogs
each, two ~ cents.
The said L. z. Whitcomb shall run said
ferry both night Id day, but to be allowed
double the above rates for crossing and
ferrying when it shall be necessary to run
said ferry after nine o'clock in the evening
and before sunrise in the morning; and al
so, double rates when it shall be necessary
to run his ferry in crossing, on account of
high water, forty rods or more above his
regular landing on the Minnesota shore;
and IL is further ordered that if the said L.
2. Whitdomb shall fail to run said ferry to
cross passengers, teams or stock as afcre-
said, or if any damage shall be sustained
by any person or their property in crossing
said ferry by the negligence of the said L.
?. Whiteomb the parties so aggrieved shall
have the right to sue and collect said dam
age in any Court having jurisdiction; and
it is further ordered that the said L. p.
Whitcomb shall cross teams coming back
the same day free of charge, also footmen.
Dated this 18th day of November, 1873
J. II. PERSONS, Chairman,
II. b. WARNER, Clerk.
The following petition of G. w.
Cairns, as agent, to cancel certain tax
sale certificates having come up under
special order, motion was made by Su.
pervisor Mumford to grant the prayer
of the petition. Carried.
TO the Honorable Board Of Supervisors Of
Pierce County;
The undersigned, agent of the owners
ofthe lands described in the annexed list,
would respectfully represen, to your Hon
cradle Board that the lands in the annex
ed list were sold on the 10th day Of May,
1870, for tax returned by the Treasurer
of the town of Ellsworth aud levied by said
town in 1869 and purporting to be a
especial Road Tax" that the said tax was
leyied without authority of law and is
wholly illegal, that all other taxes were
paid for the year 1869 by the respective
owners Of said lands; that the eaid lands
were sold for the said purperted Especial
Road Tax" above, and for no other tax;
that the oaid sale is o cloud upon the title
to said lands, and that the owners thereof
do not wish TO incur the expense and
trouble Of applying to the courts for the
removal Of Gaid cloud upon the title to
their lands; therefore, we respectfully ask
your HonorableBoard to remove such cloud
by cuusing the tax sale certificates issued
upon the sale Of all the lands described In
the annexed list on the sale Of May 10th,
1870, TO be cancelled and that the said tax
be Cancelled upon the books Of the County
Clerk and County Treasurer.
Dated at Ellsworth Wis. Nov 18th, 1873.
g. W. CAIRNS,
Agent for the owners Of lands described in
annexed list.
List Of iond' cold Nay l0A, 1870, for illegal
special road Tar.
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