Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
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Proposition of John Conner was
presented to the board as follows, to
wit
To the Honorable Board of Super
0isors of Wood County Wisconsin,.
GENTLEMEN.-The undersigned
owner of the E IL of the Sc IA Sec.
16 TIP "a Range 4 E in the town of
Sigel upon which the taxes for the
year of 1880 sale of 1881 are unpaid
and the certificates therefor are now in
the county Treas. Office and being
DESTROYS of adjusting the same hereby
represents as follows That taxes
against said lands for said year are
about $4,000 and that the same are
very much in excess Of what the same
should be, and out of proportion with
the relative value Of said lands. I
therefore ask that [ be permitted to
pay the County Clerk the sum of
thirty dollars $4,000 in full for said
taxes and that on receipt Of the same
the County Clerk be authorized and
empowered to issue proper redemption
receipts.
Signed John COnnor
[ recommend that the within
proposition be accepted and that the
difference be charged back to the town
of SigeI
Signed John Blockowiltz,
Chairman of Town SigeI
Moved that the proposition Of John
Conner be accepted Carried.
Report of the Committee on Town
Organization on the petition Of A. G..
Briggs and others in relation to the
formation of the town Of Briggs, as
follows
70 the Hon. County Board of
Supervisors Of Wood County Fis.
GENTLEMEN The undersigned
your committee upon Town Organic
alton. to whom was referred the
petition of inhabitants Of Township
No. a, North of Range 5 E., for a
new town, would report that we have
carefully investigated said matter, and
we recommend that said petition be
granted subjected to the notifications
hereinafter contained.
We recommend that sections [, 2,
3. 4, 5, 6, 7, s, 9, 10, IL, and II, TIP
"a, Range 5 E., be detached from the
town of MilIadore, and that sections
No, Is, IA, Is, 16, II, Is, 19, 20,
q, %, %, "a, q, %, 80, 80, 80 and
81 TIP a. Range 5. be detached from
the town Of Rudolph, and that sec
tions l, u, Is, a and %, TIP "a,
Range 4, be detached from the town
of Sigel, and that the territory SO
detached from said towns, to-wit
Milladore, Rudolph and Sigel, be
formed into a new town to be called
Briggs - and we recommend that
the Dist. Atty be instructed to pre-
pare the proper ordinance and pre-
sent the same at the present meeting
Respectfully submitted,
G. A. Coon, Chm,
John McCarty,
Com. on Town Organization.
The following members of the
committee reported adversely to the
above report.
L. NJ. Nash,
G. II. Slocum,
w. I'll. Bowden.
Moved that the report of the COM
mittee reporting adversely to the
proposition be accepted Carried.
The following resolution of A. G.
Briggs was presented and read as
follows
To the Board of Supervisors o.
Wood County The undersigned
respectfully petition and show that
they are the owners of the lands de-
scribed in the list hereto annexed, that
large portion thereof were purchased
from the County Of Wood, claimed to
be county lands that in order to
protect themselves from the illegaities
in the county titles. they have been
compelled to purchase the title of the
original owners, paying all the land is
worth therefor that they have paid