Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-13
WHOLE NO. 1873.
The Powers of County Boards.

Below we have copied from the
Jefferson Banner important provision.
Of last winters laws, considerably en-
larging the powers of county boards
ofsupervisors, in this State. Our read.
ers should preserve them for conve-
| nient reference in the future:
Several laws were enacted last win
ter touching the powers and duties OF
county boards of Supervisors. We
have already referred to and explain
ed the provisions of chapter l96 en-
powering county boards to make all
needful rules, orders, regulations and
enactments for the preservation of
fish in their respective counties.
Chapter 2s7 authorizes county
boards to alter the boundary lines OF
villages heretofore incorporated by
special acts. 1t provides that notice
of the application should be published
at least three weeks prior to hearing
in newspaper published therein; and
if there be none then the notice must
be posted up in FIVE of the most con-
spicuous places III the village at least
twenty days before the hearing. A
copy of the notice mrst also be served
on the town clerk of any town affect
ed by the alteration at least fifteen
days before the hearing. The county
board has been prohibited from act.
ing unless due proof has been fled
with the county clerk that such notice
has been given as in the act specified.
The statue further provides that the
alteration shall not take effect until
the question shall have been submit
ted to the voters of the village at the
annual election thereof, and shall be
approved by q majority of all those
voting on the question. If majority
shall approve the alteration, the
president and clerk of the village are
required to certify the result to the
county clerk, who shall thereupon re
cord the order Of the county board
making the alteration together with
the certificate of the result of the vii.
lage election, and transmit the certifi.
ed statement of the boundaries of the
village as altered to secretary of State.
Upon all this being done the order of
the county board becomes operative.
Chapter lac requires the treasurer,
in settling with the county supervi-
sors, to exhibit to them, in addition
to his books, accounts, and vouchers,
sail moneys in his custody or under
his control as such treasurer, so that
they may count the same.'
Chapter 252 provides that where
district attorney is required to go in
to any other county than that in which
he lives to attend to official business,
he shall be paid by the county of
which he is an officer the amount of
his actual necessary expenses, in ad
dition to his salary as fixed by the
county board.
Chapter 245 authorizes sheriffs
and constables, in serving war
rants, to charge, in addition to
mileage, all actual necessary disburs-
ments for board and conveyance of
prisoners, and when the bill therefor
is presented for allowance the board
shall allow only such sum as shall ap-
pear reasonable and necessary.
Chapter $50 allows county boards,
in counties where the population ex
ceeds $4,000, to sit and draw pay for
such number of days, not exceeding
twenty to any one year, as they shall
deem necessary for the transaction Of
the business.
H Husbands as a general rule
are what wives make them. IF
woman complains to me of an un-
sympathizing husband l listen with
closed mouth. / do not indeed deny
but what there are men too utterly
bad for women to influence; but men
do not become bad, sour and spoiled
by some sudden tightening stroke
all at once. A woman Of any pene-
tration must see suspicious circum
stances of sucn before marriage, and
people who run risks voluntarily
ought not to expect immunity from
consequences. And if the man was
a good man when she married him,
and grew bad under management,
and in her society, she cannot be
altogether blameless. Depend upon
it there are as many ill-used husbands
as wives, only the former keep a stiff
upper lip about their mistake, and the
latter bring theirs before the footlights
and ask the world to cry with them.
sA- Talk about big feet. An
eighteen year old girl came in from
Epworth the other day and drove q
prominent Main street shoe dealer al
most wild in his endeavors to find a
pair of shoes large enough for her.
She tried every pair in large box
and then the proprietor begged her
to put on thin sock and try the box
on. A nobby clerk in the establish
ment asked her where she got such