The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-06-26
PROCEEDINGS SPECIAL MEET
ING BOARD SUPERVISORS. -

PROCEEDINGS SPECIAL MEET
ING BOARD SUPERVISORS.
TUESDAY, May q. 1884.
The board met at 2 o'clock F. M, pursuant TO
adjournment, Mr.; Carey in the chair. Boil was
called By the clerk and all members answered 10
their names except Mr.. Lemere.
On motion the regular order of business was
suspended and the report OF special committee
on Insane Asylum at once called up.
Mr.. Rahr, chairman of said committee, present.
ed the following report:
To the Chairman and Hon. Board of Supervis-
ors, County of Observation-Disclosures: Your
committee to whom was referred the matter OF
County Asylum for the care and keeping of our
OWL insane, beg leave to submit the following
Your committee first visited Sheboygan County
Asylum, subjecting same to a minute inspection
both N its buildings and appliances well as Its
system IN the and treatment of Its inmates.
After consultation with.the officers IN charge and
careful looking over OF Its grounds, your con-
mIttee came TO the conclusion that building on
the same plan with the exception of adding i've
Isl feet 10 its height, and the introduction of
steam heat instead of furnace heat would answer
IN every particular the requirements of a similar
institution for our county. Mr.. VIM. Lueps, one
Of your committee also at the request of the 9TH
members and Board of Charities and Reform
of the state, visited Madison to consult in this
matter with said Board and when there visited
several Asylumns for chronic insane, with said
Board of Charities and Reform ard comes to the
conclusion that the Sheboygan Asylum in it,
buildings and appointments Is as good as any III
the state TO all IDtents and purposes. The State
Board of Charities and Reform promised to be
present at this meeting of your Honorable body,
TO further and encourage this enterprise and offer
lts advice and suggestions In carrying the same
into speedy effect. All thing being duly consId-
cred, your committee had plans and specifications
prepared by Mr.. Koch architect, of Milwaukee,
who was also employed by several counties IN the
state and also by the state In such work. These
plans are similar TO those on which the Sheboy
gan asylum is built, and are modified only in the
height and heating apparatus as hrst stated
The estimate OF costs ls as follows:
Additional work specified SO
Total required for building purposes -. S19, $50
In the matter of selecting g proper site for the
erection of the building, your committee have
carefully taken into consideration all that
suggested by prominent citizens from the county
a. well as city. We have visited and looked over
a number of farms in the neighborhood of this
city suitable for the purpose, among them that
of Richard klngholZ, who offers 4C acres at 81 OO
Mr.. F. Ostenfeldt who offers 10 acres including
his fine residence for $500 and that of +. K.
Smith on the Two Rivers road, 81 acres, including
buildings. at 100. Neither price nor location
being deemed satisfactory to your committee, we
caused a survey to be made by G. &. ErtZ of the
lots belonging TO the county IN the third ward of
this city and recommend the purchase of the fol-
lowing additions of scattering lots not owned by
the county, In blocks Sr2, 33 304, 337 33s $3.50 $40
81, 3l2 343, 3i4 3i5 and all lots not owned by
the county in blocks NJ, n, o, P, Q, r. This
would give the county a splendid site of 80 40
acres of good land healthy location. with ample
drainage The number of lots to be purchased
would be 81 and the probable cost not to exceed
so each, making total outlay of 81 $40. We
recommend the purchase of lots IN block Q, In
all. claimed by Linas Lawrence, only on condi-
ton that said l.. Lawrence causes his house and
barn to be removed at his own expense and sells
at reasonable figure, provided the title is per-
feet.
In looking over the books of the Sheboygan
Aly Ill
facts relative the cost OF keeping their patients
The total cost per inmate 81. 80 per capita
per week; deductlng from this amount 81 80 which
the state pays to the county for each inmate, we
find the actual cost to have been 80 cents per week
for their maintenance. This was for the first
year when their farm was not worked up to pro-
ducing largely. In the second year after the
building of the asy lum, the cost was reduced to
S2.2i per inmate per week, deducting therefrom
the state aid S1.50, 1t reduced to "A cents per
inmate as the actual cost of keeping PATIENTS
The cost of keeping patients In our county is to-
day, and has been for years past, on an average
$40 per capita per week. with no feasible way
open of lessenlng the expenses in the future.
We therefore recommend the adoption of the
plans and specifications herewith submitted and
same into effect by advertising for sealed propos-
ais for the building of said asylum in accordance
Herewith. Respectfully submitted,
VIM. RAHR,
VIM. q. LUEPs,
JACOB kESTLY, Com.
FRED SCHMITZ,
GUS.MUELLER.
AIr. Stoker moved that the report just read be
made special order for 10 o'clock tomorrow
forenoon. Carried unanimously.
Messrs. Wright and Giles, members of the State
Board of Charities and Reform being present,
were invited to present their views in regard to
building an asyl um, which they did strongly
recommending the plan as submitted by the
special committee.
Special committee appointed pursuant to Res
olution No; 10 at the last meeting of this board
presented the following report:
To the Hon. the BOARD of SupprVI of Mani
towoc County-Gentlemen Your committee to
whom was referred Resolution No. 10 in regard
to the records and files in the clerk of circuit
courts office. would respectfully report fol-
lows We have made an examination of the said
Office and find that the records and files kept from
the organization of the county to the year 1872
not III proper condition, and to keep said
files in condition they should be the clerk of
circuit court agrees to do the work for one-third
of the legal fees, not to exceed the sum of one
thousand dollars. Your committee cannot re-
commend the work to be done this year but would
refer the matter to the board of supervisors for
further consideration.
Dated this 10Th day of May, 1884.
f FRED Il s scanIrz, Com.
ADAM FISCHER. }
Which was on motion of Mr.. Nolan adopted
Mr.. A. j. Schmitz, chairman of committee on
railroad, begged leave to report In regard to the
opinion of third attorney. Leave granted, and
Mr.. Schmitz read the opinion of the Hon Joshua
Stark and also the written opinion oe district at
torney w. Walker, regarding the Validity of
value of Il. K. stock owned by the county, and
then reports as follows:
To the Chairman and Board of Supervisors of
Manitowoc County-Gentlemen: We, the under
signed committee on railroads, to whom
ferred the refort of the special railroad commit
tee appointed by said county board in November
1888, together with the opinions of the Hon. F.W.
Cotzhausen and the Hon. Michael Kirwan, beg
leave to submit the following report
That have carefully examined said report
and said two legal opinions, and We have also OBJ
tanned the opinions of the Hon. Joshua Stark and
of the district attorney of said county, w. A.
Walker. III writing. and have carefully examined
and considered the same, and herewith submit
the same for your consideration from which
animation we have come TO the conclusion that
the Manltowoc County railroad bonds issued by
the authorities of said county In aud of the con-
struction of tie Nj. NJ x q. b. r. r., and the
Appleton \ New London Railway are in the hands
of bona hde purchasers, legal obligations of said
county, and no valid defense can be made thereto.
Dated May q, 1881. A. j. SCHMITZ,
HENRY GGDJEN,
j. Z. NOLAN.
Which report was, on motion of Mr.. Smalley,
unanimously adopted
On motion the board adjourned until 9 o'clock
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2s. 1884, gA.M
Board met pursuant to adjournment, Mr.. Carey
in the chair. Roll called; quorum present. Min
utes OF previous meeting read and approved.
Communication from city clerk Heinemann
from the city Of Manitowoc with resolution of
board of aldermen declaring certain county lots
as public nuisances, read and referred TO commit
petition Of Mr.. Crotto.i of Mishicott regard
ing one Stehnbak alleged 10 be county pauper
read and referred TO committee on poor.
Bills and accounts were presented and referred
10 the appropriate committees.
On motion of Mr.. Geojen the board took q re-
cess till 10 o'clock this a. NJ.
At the expiration of recess board reassembled
and was called to order by the chairman. Roll
called and all members present except Mr.. La
mere. Quorum present. The chairman stated
that this was the hour set for the report of the
special committee on insane asylum and ordered
the clerk to again read the same. On motion of
4. j. SchmitZ the further reading of the report
was dispensed with as all the members had heard
II read several times. Motion prevailed and read
ing discontinued.
Mr.. Stoker begged leave to offer the following
resolution No. IN connection with the report:
Resolved, that the thanks of this board are here
by rendered to Messrs. Rahr, Schmitz, Lueps
Mueller and kestly for the investigation made by
them In regard to the incurable insane of this
county and for their report thereon as a special
committee of this board charged with the duty of
making said investigation, and that all the acts
and doings of said committee in that behalf. and
In obtaining plans and specifications for the con-
struction of the building contemplated for the
insane of this county he and the same are all ard
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