Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-18

: Mr.. Ostrander in the chair Meeting
called to order Roll called. Members
all present. Minutes of last meeting
read and approved as read.
Reports of committee on court house
plans was taken from the table.
Mr.. Whittet offered resolution number
%.
Resozued, That the architect whose
plans are adopted by this board shall be
required to give bonds in the sum of 500
900 guaranteeing the building and fur
nishing of the court house for sum not
exceeding 1886, 900, according to the re-
port of the committee on county buildings
and provided that contract cannot be
let for the above amount of $4,000 he
shall receive no pay for his plans and
specifications, and shall forfeit the sum OF
$4,000.
Which was on motion adopted after a
division was called for, 10 voting in the
affirmative and 7 in the negative
The motion then was on the adoption
noes were called for with the following
result:
Ayes-Messrs. ZIebell, Sell, Woodman
Cooley, Huebner, Ostrander, Grimm,
Mills, Kennedy, Powers, Whittet, Faville
Bond, Wollensack, Habhegger, Bieber,
Brook and Wood-18 Noes-Coburn,
Haskell, Spangler, Hopkins, May, Hull,
Rogers, Millard, Hoskins, Reed, and
Mulberger.-11. The report was adopt
ed
Mr.. Brook offered their report on bills
OF their committee, which were allowed
as reported.
Your committee to whom was referred
the petition of F. Manske and Michael
Zimmerman to be relieved from the for
feiture of bond upon which they are
sureties in the case of the state of Wis
cOnsin against Robert Kruger, Herman
Mauske and Herman Zimmerman, the
forfeiture Of which bond was ordered by
the Circuit Court of Jefferson county, on
the 9Th day OF September, 1879, beg
! leave to report that they have examined
into the matter and things stated and set
forth in said petition and recommend
that the judgment docketed in the office
of the Clerk Of the Circuit Court for JEFF
ferson county be satisfied by the District
Attorney, and that the principals and
sureties therein be relieved from all
liability Hereunder, upon the payment
into the hands of the district attorney a
sum of money sufficient to pay all the
costs and expenses attending upon or
arising out of the aforesaid action.
/ All of which is respectfully submitted
F. p. BROOK,
ALFRED COOLEY,
RICHARD BOGIE,
Com.
Mr. Woodman offered resolution No.
20. On motion adopted
Resolced, That the sum of twenty
eight dollars be allowed to A. G.. Steiner
| District Attorney, of this county, for four
] teen DAYS, attendance upon the session of
this board.
Mr. Woodman Uffered resolution No.
80, on motion adopted.
Resolued, That the thanks of this
board are hereby rendered to w .Ostran
der it's chairman, for the able, courteous
and impartial manner in which he has
discharged his arduous duties during
| the session of this board.
Mr.. Grimm offered resolution No. 81,
on motion adopted.
Resozued, That besides w. l.. Hoskins
who is appointed on the part of the
county so cooperate with the supervisors
of the town of Aztalan in the expendi-
ture of the appropriation to town of Alta
Ian for bridge purposes, w. w. Wood
man, Of the town of Pennington, be also
appointed for that purpose.
MIR. Rogers offered report on McKenny
and Arnold's bills. Report adopted.
To the Honorable Board j. Supervisors
of Jefferson Count
Your committee to whom was referred
the bills of Charles Arnold and w. L.
McKenny would respectfully report that
we have examined carefully in regard to
said bills and recommend that the same
be paid as allowed by the committee on
Justices and conrtables' accounts, believ-
/ ING the same to be legal bills against
Jefferson County 1t is claimed by Mr.
McKenny that he has used every endea-
vor on his part to have the Common
/ Council of the city Of Jefferson erect
suitable lookup in which tramps and
yagrants might be temporarily placed
without much expense, but such common
council have refused to take any action
in the matter and he has had no resource
but to send them to jail at great expense
to the county. We would say also that
in almost all cases since the tramp law
went into effect, Mr.. McKenny has COM
mitted tramps upon bread and water,
which has had the statutory effect to make
them leave this vicinity as soon as releas-
ed. Mr.. Arnold also submits commu-
nication to this board, which we ask to
have filed in this report in which he
shows that the Offices in Watertown were
acting under orders from the board of
street commissioners of the city in bring
ing before him the persons that he has
committed to jail Under the stringent
provisions of the present law, with the
assistance of the local authorities, the
county the coming year can doubtless
largely reduce their Jail expenses. We
urge upon the authorities of Watertown
and Jefferson cities the necessity of doing
as we are informed is being done in all
all other places in the county, controlling
the tramp nuisance by means of the To-
cal authorities without much expense to
the county.
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