Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-10
COUNTY BOARD PROCEEDINGS.
Wood Co. to have a new Court House

Wood Co. to have a new Court House.
The County Board of Supervisors
met in adjourned session at Council
Room in this city Tuesday. at 2
o'clock P. NJ. Feb. Sth, 1881. Chair
man Cochran in the chair. All mem
bers present except Supv. Garrison.
Supv. Gardner introduced the follow
ing resolution:
WHEREAS the present Court House
of Wood County is unfit for use, and
WHEREAS on the 31st day of Dec.
1880 said county sold to Thos. B.
Scott its fifteen hundred shares Of
stock in the Green Bay and Lake
Pepin (now Green Bay and Minness-
ia Railroad Company at the price of
five cents On the dollar, amounting in
the aggregate to the sum of seven
thousand five hundred dollars which
su l said Scott has paid, pursuant to
the contract Of purchase to the Treas
srer of Wood County in whose hands
said funds still remain, and whereas
doubts have arisen as to the validity
of such sale: Now therefore, the Co.
Board of Supervisors Of said Wood
County,
RESOLVE, That the sale of said
stock to said Scott as aforesaid be and
the same is hereby in all things sanct-
toned, ratified and confirmed. And it
is by said Board of Supervisors of
Wood county further resolved to build
new court house in the city of Grand
Rapids in said county and that the
same be built upon the site this day
agreed to be donated to said county by
Geo. R. Gardner and other citizens Of
Grand Rapids.
That the sum of ten thousand dol
lars being $500 of the money
received from the sale of said railroad
stock, and $4,000 out of the general
funds of said county, be and the same
is hereby appropriated for the purpose
Of building such new Court House.
That Geo. A. Neeves, j. j. Hin
man and J. W. Cochran Supv's. be
and they are hereby appointed as a
building committee, who shall have
the general charge and control of the
construction of said court house, and
full power and authority to procure
plans and specifications for the same
drawn by some competent architect,
and to adopt such plan as they may
deem best, and to make and execute
all proper and necessary contracts for
the furnishing of material for and the
building of said court house.
On motion the resolution was adopt
ed by the following vote:
Ayes-J. Conner, J. Edwards, G..
R. Gardner, G. Hilcs, J. Human, J.
McCarty, G.. A. Neeves, l.. ". Pitts,
0. Roeheleau, L. Ward-10.
Nays-J. II. Ebbe, j. Ingle. R. c..
Lyon, J. Ray, E. S. Renne-5.
Not voting-J. Arpin, Absent
J. Crotteau, T. Garrison.
The following proposition from Geo.
R. Gardner, was accepted:
To the Hon. Board Of Supervisors
Of Wood County.
The undersigned, together with
several other citizens of Grand Rapids.
agrees to convey, by good and sufi-
cient deed, to said county of Wood
without cost to said county one and
IA acres of land described as follows:
beginging at the northest corner of a
certain piece of land mortgaged by
VIM. Kline and wife to John Ashel-
man on the south side of Baker street
and nearly opposite the site of the
Rablin House hotel, running thence
east along the south line of said Baker
street two hundred and four feet,
thence south at right angles with said
Baker street 270 feet, thence west on
line parallel with said Baker street
204 feet, thence north go feet to the
place of begining-upon condition
that said county shall build and main
tain thereon a court house for the use
of said county to have and to hold
the same. SO long as said county shall
use the same for court house.
Witness my hand and seal this Sth
day of February, A. D. 1881.