River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-12-22
THE COUNTY BO4RD.
Report Of the Proceedings OF
the Pierce County Board
of Supervisors.
ANNUAL SESSION. 1881.
MORNING SEssToN-5TH DAY

MORNING. CESSIQN In La l..
Board met at 8 o'clock a. 10.
Roll called. full Board present
except Sups. Hutchinson and
WAY. Journal read and approved.
Sup. Kinney offered the follow
ing resolution and moved Its adj
option:
Rssolued, BY the Board OF Supervisors Of
Pierce county that all distinction between
county poor and town poor be and the
same is hereby abolished in said county,
and the expense of maintaining all poor
in said county shall be county charge.
AYES and noes called for. The
resolution was adopted by 8 ayes
to s noes.
The following was offered by
Sup. Putnam:
I2es0lued By the Board of Supervisors OF
Pierce county that there shall not be ald
furnished to any pauper in said county
outside of the poor house, to exceed the
amount of one dollar per week for each
and every person so aided. except when
the condition of such paupers shall be such
| that they can not be moved to the poor
| house
On motion the resolution was
accepted and adopted.
The following was offered by
Sup. Stirrat:
Resolps3, BY the Board Of Supervisors
! Of Pierce County, that the chairman OF
each town shall be the superintendent Of
| the poor in his town, and snail make a
detailed report of all of his doings as such
and submit the same to the County Board
of Supervisors at their annual meeting
and at such other times as may be rcqulr-
| y - ..I.l ~ "a
On motion the same was ac-
copied and adopted.
Sup. Fitzgerald offered the fol-
lowing:
ResoIyed, By the Board of Su-
| pervisors of Pierce County that
| there be elected by this Board
and by the County Board at their
annual meeting III each year,
three county agents, whose duty
it shall be TO have the general
supervision under the direction
of the Board of Supervisors, OF
the poor farm, house and its in
mates, with full power TO make
! I'll contracts, rules and regula-
lions for the care and manage
mcnt Of the poor farm, house and
/ yates, as they may deem
Ils ~, Id proper,
On motion the ~
cepted and adopted. tte
Sup. Akers, chairman of
committee on roads, introduced
the following report of that com
mittee:
ELLSWORTH, Nov. IS, 1881.
| To the Honorable Members Of tie C0unty
Board Of Supervisors Of Pierce County:
We, the committee on roads,
to whom has; been referred petit
tions for aid in building bridges
bv the several towns hereinafter
mentioned, would respectfully
submit the following PROPOSE
tons: That this Board grant on
the petitions of Maiden Rock the
sum of 800 to be applied on the
State road at the point mention
ed (on Rush river IN the petit
ton, and that we grant for a
bridge on the Isabelle on the
same State road, in the town of
Isabelle, an appropriation OF one
hundred dollars; also, in the
towns Of Salem and El Paso for
bridges on Rush river, DESTROYED
by recent floods, the sum of one
hundred dollars to each of said
towns. Respectfully submitted
to the Board of Supervisors con
vened this 10Th day of Novem
Der, A. ID. 1881.
g. II. Akers, w. Foley, w. II.
Ridgman, Committee on Roads.
Sup. Fitzgerald moved that the
report be accepted and adopted.
Sup. Copley moved to amend
and make it receive the report.
Amendment carried.
Sup. Fitzgerald then moved the
adoption oil the report.
Sup. Bailey moved to amend
that the action on the report be
postponed until II o'clock a. IN.
Amendment carried.
The following was offered by
Sup. Webb Of the committee to
settle with poor agent.
To the Board of Supervisors of Pierce
county, your committee appointed to settle
with The County Poor Agent of said coun-
ty reports as follows:
Nov 10, 1890. paid j L Mason for board S22l. 50
Feb 49, 1881 a 220J3