The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-12-08
Annual Meeting Of the County Board of
Supervisors.

called to order by the Hon. Jonh Carey
Chairman. Roll was called by the Clerk
No quorum being present. on motion Of
Mr.. Ostenfeld, of the town of Mantle
woo, Board adjourned till 8 o'clock A.
NJ. tomorrow, Nov. 16.
| Nov 16.-9 o'clock A. N.
Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr.. Carey in the chair. Roll called and
a quorum present.
Journal of yesterday read and approx
ed.
Petition of Mr.. Siegman read and re-
ferred to Committee on Illegal Assess.
ment.
Communication of Messrs. Magic &
Borcherd read and referred to Committee
On General Claims.
Accounts ana claims were referred to
respective committees.
Report of W. A. Walker, District At
torney, was read and referred to Com.
mittee on Finance.
The report and certificate of Commits
sioners on Review and Equalization was
read and Mr.. OstenGeld offered the fol.
lowing preamble with Resolution No. 1:
! WHEREAS, upon the application of the
city of Manitowoc, commissioners have
been appointed by the circuit court Of
Manitowoc county, pursuant to chapter
291 of the laws of Wisconsin for 1880,
1880 under Sec. 1913 of the R. S. and
WHEREAS, said commissioners filed their
report with the county clerk of Mantle
woo county on the Both day of Aug. 1881
whereby it appears that said commission.
ers reviewed only that part of said
decision of the board relating to the real
estate of said county, leaving untouched
and unconsidered the portion thereof re.
lating to personal property of said county,
contrary to the provisions of said legisla-
tive act of 1880, and contrary to sound
principles and fair dealing. Therefore
be it
Rsso7ved, that it is the opinion of this
board that said report of said commission
ers is of no binding force or validity and
ought not to be followed and will not be
regarded or acted upon by this board.
On motion of Mr.. Ostenfeld the report
of the Commissioner and Resolution No.
were made special order for Tuesday,
November ODD, at 2 o'clock P. NJ
Report of the County Clerk was read
and, on motion of Mr.. Robinson, refer
red to Committee on Finance.
On motion the Board adjourned till
tomorrow, Nov. 18th, at 9 o'clock A. NJ.
Nov. 17-9 o'clock A. NJ.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
and was called to order by the chair.
Roll called; all members present except
Messrs. Greve aud Johnston.
Journal of the preceding sessions read
and after correction approved.
Petition of Mr.. Reseburg for the dis
continuance of part of Schleswig street
and some alley described therein, all in
the village of Kiel, town of Schleswig,
was read and referred to Committee on
Illegal Assessment
Accounts and claims referred to res
pective committees.
Mr.. Carey, of committee appointed to
confer with the Tax Commissioners, re-
ported as follows:
To the Hon. Board of Supervisors OF
Manitowoc County:
The committee appointed by your hon.
orabe body to confer with the Tax Com
missioners who were selected by Judge
ellison to review the action of the Board
of Supervisors in accordance with Chap
ter 291 of the general laws of 1880,
would respectfully report, that thoy. the
said committee, met at the County Treas
urer's Office on the 18th day of June and
made list from the Assessment Roll of
the city of Manitowoc and other locali-
ties of parcels of real estate which your
committee believed were not justly assess
ed; that on the next day-June 18th
they me. the said commissioners in the
city council room where the said commits
sioners duly organized; that then and
there the said commissioners came to the
conclusion to accept no documentary evil
dence from your committee, but to pro-
coed to make personal examination of
tie towns, cities and villages of the coun-
ty; that such examination was made or
claimed to have been made by such COM
missioners; that on the 23d day of Aug.
they, the said commissioners, met your
committee again in the city council rooms
in Manitowoc; that they there stated in
general terms the method by which they
were to arrive at the final result, and
that on August S0th they finished their
report and filed it in the Office of the
County Clerk. This report your COM
mittee authorized to be published in the
Manitowoc Pilot and Nord Westen, and
1t was so published on the fret day of
September. This report your committee
consider unfair aud unjust to several To-
calities, as the true or relative value of
the real estate was in the opinion of your
oommitte not found.
| Your committee however find it ex-
tremely difficult to make any recommen-
dations or suggestions with regard to the
disposition of said report According to
the opining of Judge Cole of the Supreme
Court. the commissioners bad the power
to review the assessment of personal prop
erty as well as that of real estate. If it
was tie duty of the commissioners-as
the decision of Jud &c Cole would imply
ITO review the assessment Of personal
/ property as veil as that of real estate, and
the commissioners having neglected to do
go. then in your committees opinion it