Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-07-24

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Wis, Jaly 18th, 1879. /
County Board Of Supervisors Of
Wood County in session at p P. NJ,
pursuant to the above call, due ne
tice having been given.
Chairman Cochran in chair.
Roll called and the following
members answered TO their names:
Boon, Cochran, Ebbe, Gardner, Gar.
rison, Hinman, Ingle, Lavigne, Nash,
Lyon, Rein, Rochleau, Witter,
Woodford and McCarty-15; ali
sent, Conner, Edwards, Hiles and
RAY.
The chairman then asked the
pleasure Of the Board; Supervisor
Nash took the floor and stated that
lie was probably the cause Of the
present meeting, and then made a
verbal report of the result Of his in
vestigation of the account between
the County and the Town of Rem
ington, and stated that he thought
there YVES something wrong in the
way the accounts were kept by the
Treasurer, between the County and
the different Towns.
Supervisor Ingle moved that &
committee of three be appointed by
the chair to act with the County
Treasurer, Dist. Atty, and County
Clerk, and that said committee have
power to employ clerk, or expert,
to make thorough investigation Of
the accounts Of the Towns with the
| County.
Supervisor Witter and Gardner
favored said resolution, and made
several suggestions.
Sup'r Nash moved as an amend
ment to Sup'r Ingles' motion that
the expert or clerk hired, should
| have voice in the settlement.
Amendment lost. Original motion
as made by Sup'r Ingle carried
unanimously. Chairman appointed
as such committee Spp'rs Witter,
Gardner and Lyon.
BY Sup'r Witter, "Resolved, That
Geo. r. Gardner be employed to as
sist the Dist. Atty in prosecuting an
appeal of the case entitled ''ira Pur
dy VS.. The Board Of Supervisors Of
Wood Co." in the event that the
Dist. Atty and Mr.. Gardner shlll,
after examination, deem it desirable
to appeal"
Sup'r Gardner took the floor and
stated some law points bearing upon
the question, and that he doubted
the practicability Of taking SAID case
to the supreme court. On motion
resolution adopted.
On motion, County Clerk to mott
fly the chairman Of each town when
the committee appointed to investi-
gate the accounts Of the towns is
ready for said chairman with town
records.
BY Sup'r Woodford, Resozced,
That the sum of two hundred dollars
be appropriated and placed in the
hands of three commissioners ap
pointed by the chairman to repair
the highway between the depot at
baskerville and the south line of the
town of Wood, and the same to be
charged to the town of Dexter. BIZ.
Woodford, in support Of his resoIu-
ton, claimed that the highway re-
ferred to was the. only outlet to the
railroad for the citizens Of the town
Of Wood, and that the road was
nearly impossible for teanas with any
load, and that the authorities Of the
said town of Dexter refused to make
any repairs on said highway.
On motion the resolution was re-
ferred to Committee en- Roads and
Bridges. .--.--s
By Sup'r Gardner-seThe Board of
Supervisors Of the county Of Wood,
do order and determine as follows: /:
That the County Treas. County
Clerk and District Attorney, Of said
county of Wood, if they, or a ma
iority Of them, shall deem that there
| is reasonable cause to believe that
the taxes or tax certificates now re-
turned to or in the Office Of said Co.
Treas, or county CIerk and belong
ing to said county upon and against
the following described lands, stu
ate In the city of Grand Rapids, in
said county to-wit: All that GER
tain tract of land, being a part of
fractional lot No. two ~ in Section
seventeen az in Town twenty-five
1927 North Of Range six 81 East,
situate between Water street and
the Wisconse River, and extending
from the North and South line be
tween fractional lot one "a and two
~, In said section seventeen az,
in Township twenty two (22}, North
Of Range siZ (6), East, to the tract
Of land used and occupied By and
upon which situated the saloon bull
ding Of Fred Closuit, together with
two story building, situate thereon
and formerly occupied by F. j..
/ Wood as a Drug Store, and now &C.
cupied by J. E. Ingraham s Co. as a
printing Office, Alse all that part
of fractional lot one ID Section
seventeen az, in Township twenty
two (22), North Of Range SIX (6) east,
in Wood County State of Wisconsin,
which had not been sold and convey
ed by William Kline and his grant
ors to other parties prior to the End
day Of January A y. 1873, and cen
tanning about twenty acres more or
less are for any reason illegal; then
! the said County Treasurer, County