Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-26
Proceedings of Board of
Supervisors.
ADJOURNED SESSION.


Pursuant to adjournment, the Board of
Supervisors of Jefferson County re-assem-
bled at the court house in the city of
Jefferson, on Wednesday, January II,
at 3 o'clock P NJ. Meeting called to or
der by the chairman, Mr.. Ostrander.
Roll called by the clerk. Members all
present except Henry Haskell, J. G.
Reed, G. FL. Powers, John Whittet and
A. d. Faville Minutes of the meeting
of Nov. Oath read and approved.
Clerk presented list of new claims, num-
bered from / to II inclusive, which were,
after being read, ruled out of order by
the chairman.
Bill No 80, disallowed at the Novem-
Der session, was again presented and re-
ferred to Committee on Justices and
SConstables accounts.
The Committee on County Buildings
and Property offered the following re-
port:
To County Board of Jefferson County:
The report of your committee on pub
lie buildings and property respectfully
shows:
That pursuant to instructions from the
Board they advertised to be sold at public
auction the old Court House, the brick
Office building and the fence around the
old Court House Square and the poplar
trees standing along said fence OH the in
side of it and did sell the same at public
auction on December 14th, 1880, as fol-
lows, to the highest bidder to-wit:
The old Court House to Charles Stop
penbach for 10000. The brick office
building to Charles Stoppenbach for 800
90. And the said fence and trees to G..
Grimm for 31.00. That the aggregate
proceeds of such sale was the sum of
S151.00 out of which they paid the fol-
lowing expenses of sale.
To H. Mulberger attendance and travel. SO 90
To A: Spangler - 8 &C
To W. Ziebell q 60 &" m 81
To A. ]. Vanderwater, auctioneer..... Sc
Total Sl5 10
And that the balance of said proceeds
of sale, being the sum of $135.S1, they
have paid over to the County Treasurer
and taken his receipt therefor, which is
hereto annexed.
Dated January 18th, 1881.
II. MULBERGER,
WIN. ZIEBELL,
ADAM SPANGLER.
Com.
On motion, the report was adopted.
The Building Committee of the new
court house, offer their final report:
To the Board Of Supervisors Of Jefer-
son County:
Your committee appointed under re-
solution of the Board of Supervisors,
/ December 10th, 1S79-designated the
/ Court House Committees bmit the fol-
lowing report of their transactions since
their preliminary report of November
! 10th, 1880:
Your committee met on December Is,
! 1880, to make final settlement with
Mr.. d. Stephens, the contractor, for
building the court house, who then pre-
sented bill Tor extras, amounting to
1850, which included the amount pre-
vlcusly agreed upon for extra excavation
and extra sized footing stone under the
!, eastern portion of the building. After a
careful examination of the courthouse, to
ascertain the necessity for any or all of
the extras claimed the following items of
the bill were allowed as therein stated,
i viz:
Five cords extra wall at S14.OO per cords 20 90
Six extra buttress stone at 80 each...... Q 90
| Eight posts Tor extra support ofroof...... 3 on
| Eight anchors to tower and over pOrticO 6 90
| Two iron thresholds-front and rear doors 10 90
1916 Extra Brick in gables and wall at $40
| l7S5 4" g i'll stairway to thickness
- "all II IS
400 50 in ash Pit................... 90
63 rect stone coping for cellar stairway. 6 90
! Changing location Of ventilator in court