Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-11-21

Beetown.....-s $500 Lancastes..... sles 90
noscopeL.- .-......i ilo,ooo Muscoda...... 60 90
Bioomlngton.-....l q, 900 Mennt Hope-..... 500
SIiiton.... -. IIooo Platte slle........ $50 90
Elenboro.. l,2Oc lPotosi 1 AZ an
Fennimore. $4,000 Patch Grove ..... 700
uien Hayen-..-.. 1920 iWatterstovn ......t $50
hazsi oreen.....i $1,000 Wipgvle 1900
Jamestown .........i 5000 Wv slusie O s.so
p a,, 49,. 1891 1000 Woodma n..l 500
blue hiver-......... 500
oassViiie...........l $4,000
Recapitulation.
Total of personal property. .... S 2,277. l6.
landed . r 82o AZ,
city and village lots. -. 1,050, 500
Grand total $S,957 ,0s'
All OF which is respectfully submitted.
J. II. G. McKIysEy, j. Fl. SARLEs,
N. w. Bass, JOIN A. BoERNER,
j. S. KIDD. T. G.. STEPHENS,
EZRA ABRAHAM.
Adopted.
Mr.. Casper, chairman of commit.
tee on County Property reported
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors o.
Grant County, Wisconsin
Your Committee on County Property Re
spectfully report:
That we have visited and carefully inspect
ed the County Poor House and farm and W.
find the same well kept and everything ap.
pears to be in good repair.
We also find that the work recommended
by your Committee of 1877 is well done and
the cellar in excellent condition.
Your Committee further report that they
have visited the Jail, Court House and the
keepers out houses and we find them gener.
ally in &C cd repair ana well kept.
We find that there is new zinc needed
under tho stnva in tha Rarordar,S oHco Al.
one window shade and the iron door to vaul,
needs repairing so that il will fasten, al an es
timated cost Of four dollars and sixty cents
(S4.60)
Your Committee find the fence around the
court house in bad repair and recommend i,
being repaired by putting IN an additional
post in the center of each pannel and new
cap board all around the fence.
Also c'ests on the outside of posts.
The post 10 be sawed and same material as
the old post. Also four new gates and gate
posts boxed. The fence to be whitewashed
in and out side.
For which we estimate the cost at seventy
dollars. ($70.00)
flee and find the new index ordered by the
last Board near completion and in good shape.
And We farther recommend that the Clerk
OF Court be allowed forty dollars in addition
TO the amount already paid him of sixty seven
dollars and fifty cents when the work is fully
completed.
We farther recommend that the Clerk of
Court shall procure the session laws of Wis.
consin from the years 1888 to 1858 inclusive
and have The same bound.
Estimated cost for the same twenty dollars,
($20.0O)
Your Committee recommends that the Sher-
IT, III De instructed to prohibit ball playing in
We further recommend that the brick part
OF the Jailer's residence be newly shinged at
the estimated csst of forty dollars I$40.OO1
Also recommended that new blinds be procur-
ed Tor the Court room at an estimated cost of
forty-five dollars. TS45.00l
Resolved that there be raised two hundred
and nineteen dollars and sixty
cents OF defray the above
penses. And the Chairman of Board of SUI
pervsors be intrusted with the supervision of
the same.
All of which is respectfully submitted by
your Committee.
PETER CASTER,
MATTHEW THOMPSON,
R. A. WILSON,
THos. ToRMEY,
c. HUTCHINSON.
Mr.. w. b. Clark moved that the
report be adopted with the amend
ment that paint be used instead of
whitewash lost. The report was
then adopted.
Mr.. Glenn, chairman committee on
Highways, Bridges and Ferries re.
ported as follows !:
Report of Committee on Highways, Bridges
and Ferries
Gentlemen of the Board: We the under
signed Committee on Highways, Bridges and
Ferries, to whom was referred the several ne
titions presented to this Board for ferries
across the Mississippi river and also streams
within the County, and to whom also belonged
the duty of appropriating to such towns in the
county, where necessity existed therefor,
such portions of the Road and Bridge fund
as in cur judgment seemed advisable, the lin,
1t OF which fund authorized by Chapter 1888.
local laws of 1866, being $4,000, now say: Our
work is finished, and we ask you respectfully,
to accept this report as the result of our labor
LIST. The application of Cyrus A. Hornbeck
to keep and maintain ferry across Platte
river, in the town of Paris, has been granted
and we respectfully ask that your honorable
body adopt the accompanying order, to>wit:
1t is hereby ordered by the Board of Super
visors of the County of Grant, that a ferry Ii
cense be granted to Cyrus A. Hornbeck to
keep and maintain ferry across the Platte
river in the town ofParis, in N. w. I of Sec.
II, Of Township two (2), north of Range two
~ west, at a point where the Potosi and Ga
lena road crosses said river, for the period of
three years from this date, upon his executing
bond with good and sufficient sureties, con-
ditioned as provided by law, to keep and
maintain such ferry, in sum Of Ave hundred
5000 dollars to be approved by the Board of
Supervisors and that the rates of ferriaee DO
fixed as follows:
For each person. 1880. eta.
horses, vehicle and driver .25 cts.
g naah additional raaraars -
!" one horse carrige and driver. 20
= horse and rider ....... ...l5"
each hog and sheep, in droves not
less than TO-. ............. -. q"
+" in dFoves less than 10. ....3 81"
/" each head neat cattle ..s ga
And it IS further recommended by your
committee that all boats engaged in this ferry
when the season for ierrying shall be over in
OF floating ice, be removed so far
from the landing on both sides of the said
Platte river, as not to impede the travel on
ice where the said Potosi and Galena road
crosses said river.
End. That the application of Rockwell &
Bandy has been granted for ferry across the
Platte river in the town of Potosi at point
where the Potosi and Dunlieth road crosses
said river, and that the application Of August
Eggers TO keep and maintain a ferry at the
same point has been Withdrawn in conse-
quence of an arrangement between the par.
ties regarding ferriage. and which agreement.
is now held by Peter Casper, as agent and at |
torney of said August Eggers, and therefore
ask that this Board adopt the ac- |
order to-wit:
1t is hereby ordered by the Board of Super. /
visors of the County of Grant, that ferry H. |
cense be granted to Rockwell & Bandy to |
10 keep and maintain ferry across the Platte |
river at point where the Potosi and Duns /
eth road crosses said river; and that the /
term of their license shall be three (S) years /
rom this date on their executing bond with /
good and sufficient sureties, conditioned as
provided by law, to keep and maintain such
Ierry.if the sum Of five hundred (50O) dollars. |
70 be approved by the Board of Supervisors /
,f said county. and their rates Of terriage shall
De as follows, to witt
For each person. ................ 8 cts
horses, vehicle and driver. ..25 !"
each additional person. ..... s."
& ~ ona haraa end Ir;var g