Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-05

The following resolution was presented at
the meeting of the County Board yesterday, and
three against. We withhold comment till next
week.
Whereas the Board of Railroad Commission
ers of Wood County heretofore entered into a
contract with the WISCONSIN Valley Railroad
Company wherein, upon the conditions in said
contract stated, the said Commissioners agreed
Wood County Bonds. with said company for an
equal amount of its Capital Stock and whereas,
1t was In said contract agreed that the said
Bonds were to be executed by the proper officers
of said County. and desosite, with the Treasurer
of the State of Wisconsin. to be by him held
until they should be deliverable to said Railroad
Company, at the time and upon the conditions
in said contract mentioned and whereas. it is
believed by many tax payers of said County,
that all legal and equitable right on the part
OF sad Railroad Comnany, under and by virtue
reason of the failure of said company to perform
the conditions upon 1t imposed within the
time in said contract specified; And whereas.
grave doubts have arisen rs to the Va lily
Of tie Act of the Legislature under which the
said Board of Commissioners were acting when
said contract Was ma lie, and consequently as to
the validity OF SAID bonds; AMI whereas. 1t Is
alleged that said bonds have been issued, and
by the said Board of Railroad Commissioners sent
beyond the limits oftho State, without aut horlty
OF said contract or of law; and whereas
an action has been commenced in the Circuit
Court of God County, by George +. Nitter, Ill
behalf of himself and other tax payers of said
others, for the purpose of requiring the said
Board of Railroad Commissioners to cause to be
delivered to the said State Treasurer the said
County Bonds in accordance with the conditions
of the said contract, and also to procure judi
cial determination of the several questions in
VOWED. to the end that all controversies growing
out of them may be settled, aud the rights and
duties of the taxpayers, the Railroad Commls-
sicners. and the said Railroad Company legally
asccrtained and whereas. the said action is be-
ing prosecuted in the interest OF the tax payers
OF said County. and the several questions there,
IN involved are of great public importance and
whereas the reasonable expense OF prosecuting
said action to final Judgment will be considera-
bic, and ought, IN justice, to be borne IN equal
proportions by those whose lit rests are to be
promoted thereby therefore
Ine Board of super, iSorS of the County of W God
do order and determine as foy lows. to wit:
Section |. There is hereby appropriated, out
of any moneys in the County Treasury, not 9TH
erwIse appropriated |. the sum OF Five Hundred
Dollars to be eXppn lei under he dire ion of
Supervisors John r W. John VI trty and Jam s
T.. lngrahdln, or Il mas orlty OF them Tor prop
g: ana necessary expenses mcluHlnG council fees,
Il prosecuting to final ju igment. III behalf oi the
plaintln, the action now pea ling IN the CIR
cult Court OF W ooi County, wherein George /.
" liter is plaintiff, and the Wisconsin Valley
Rail road Company, and others. are defendants
Said sum to be Immediately drawn by the said
Supervisors above named. and disbursei from
time to time. III whole III part, af they may
deem necessary and proper
Sec. ,. The Clerk is hereby directed to imme
diately issue and deliver TO said Supervisors and
the Chairman Of the County Board to Counter
sign, an order upon the County Treasurer Tor
the sum by this order appropriated.
See. ). The Supervisors named IN Section one
of this order, are hereby requested 10 confer
with the plaintiff in said action. and the Dis
trict Attorney, concerning the action mentioned
in Section hereof; and the District Attorney Is
directed to render them any aid or advice which
they may require OF him.