Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-08
WALTER S. GREENE,
A. B. SMITH,
MAX II. GAEBLER,

Mr.. Cornish offered their report on the
following numbered Miscellaneous ac-
counts. Bills 124, 5. 20, 35, 27, II, /,
2. 3 SO, 4. 1872, 101, 10, 1877, 1O3, 6,
102 96, %, 94which were allowed by the
Boar, as reported by the committee.
Bills 100, 176, 81, referred to committee
on Sheriff and Jail expenses. Bills
numoer 80, 104, 100, Ill, 112, 96, 102,
were referred to superintendent of poor;
numbers III and 80, referred to commit
tee on county buildings.
e. gers bill laid over further consider
alton.
Mr.. Mulberger offered their report on
new court house.
To the County Board of Jefferson
County ty;-Your Court House Committee,
appointed in pursuance OF the action had
by the last County Board on December
10, 1879, presnming that the present
Board would like to be informed of the
doings of the said committee thus far
had, and deeming it meet and proper so
to do, reserving the right to make full
and complete final report thereon after
the full completion of the said new Court
House, beg leave to submit to you the
following preliminary report showing
their receipts and disbursements, progress
of the work and action had, up to the
date of this report, to wit:
l. Immediately after the appointment
your said committee procured from the
architects Messrs. Kock and Co., the draft
of detailed plan of the said building
and, corresponding with the sketch of
such plan, submitted by the said archi-
tects to the last County Board. There
upon your committee carefully scrutin-
! lied and discussed with the aid and as
sistance Of the said architects and the de-
tails of the said plan, with a view of as
certaining whether any minor changes
or alterations to the same would be
necessary and, if SO, to make and deter
mine upon such minor changes and alter
ations, before the drawing OF the working
plans and specifications and the subse-
quent letting of the contract for the cree
| ton of the building, and for the purpose
! of avoiding the future possible necessity
of being compelled to make any change
or alienation subsequent to the letting of
said contract. Upon such scrutiny and
discussion your committee, by and with
the advice of the said architects, conclud-
ed to make and did make the following
| minor changes and alterations to said
plan, to wit:
(A) Finding that the County Judges
Office was of rather too small dimensions,
while theJudge's private room was larger
than actually needed for that purpose,
as laid down upon said sketch, they en-
larged the former by about q 4 feet in
width, making the latter correspondingly
smaller.
, (B) The said sketch provided for the
| erecting of the two side front corners of
the building with cut stone or, as it is
called in professional parlance, for the
covering of the said corners Your com
mittee upon inquiry were informed by
the said architects and were of the opin-
| ion that the aforesaid covering of the
said two front corners would add the sum
of eight hundred dollars to the cost ofthe
said building, but that unless such cover
ing or some work was put upon all the
corners and projections of the said build
ing, and providing the said two front
corners had it alone, it would detract
| from the style of the said building, and
instead of adding to it would mar the ap-
pearance of the same: and, that on the
other hand if all said corners and pro-
jections were covered,a las they ought to be,
if any covering at all was done, it would
entail an additional expense of at least
three thousand dollars to the expense of
| the building, and that in such case the
work could not be done within the limits
of the appropriation made for that pur-
pose. Your committee therefore con-
cluded to dispense with all and every
covering,
(C) The said sketch did not provide foI
any pigeon holes or abook shelves in any