Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-06-11
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
No. SIS, 81


AN ACT apPropriating money 20 the Wisconsin
Veterans home at Naupaca, and for the regu-
lstion of the expenditure of moneys provided
by the state for The support thereof
The people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly. do enact as follows:
Section l. There is hereby appropriated 70 the
Wisconsin Veterans home at Waupaca, out Il
any moneys in the treasury not otherwise apOro-
priated, and for the use and purposes, and upon
the conditions herein specified as follows;
To pay mortgage and Indebtedness. six thou
sar d dollars for additional buildings namely:
ola mems building, ten thousand dollars; old
peoples building zen thousand dollars women S
hospital, dead house, extension 70 general hos
Pitsl, heating apparatus and furniture eleven
thousand dollars clothing for inmates. two
thousand dollars: office building and vault one
thousand dollars; cemetery and ground improv-
ments three thousand dollars; purchase of ad-
ditiOnal lands. one thousand dollars electric
light plant, six thousand five hundred dollars;
total, fifty thousand five hundred dollars.
Section Q The members of the board Of trus.
tees of the said Wisconsin Veterans home shall
execute to the state Of Wisconsin a joint and
several bond on their part in the penal sum OF
twenty-five thousand dollars, with two or
more good and sufficient sureties
conditioned that they will faithfully ex-
pend and apply moneys appropriated by this
act for and to the several objects and pur-
poses for which The same appropriated and
all moneys received at any time from the state of
Wisconsin for the use and benefit of the home.
and that they WILL in all respects, faithfully dis
charge their duties as such trustees. And the
treasurer of said board Of trustees
and Of said home shall make and
execute to the state of Wisconsin a
bond in the penal sum OF fifty thou
sand dollars with two or more sufficient sureties,
which bond shall be conditioned that
all moneys appropriated by this or any
other act of the legislature of the state DIVISION
sin, in any wise derived from the state OF Wis
cousin, shall be paid out by him only for the
uses and purposes specified in this act. or the
act making such appropriation, and for
the faithful accounting therefor, and
the payment to his successor in office
oh nr fhn hn
state treasurer Of this state of all moneys so
received by him in pursuance Of this or any
act of appropriation. The sureties upon
such bond shall severally justify their response
bility such sureties by affidavit affixed thereto
ana the total of the amounts in which the sure
ties to each such bond shall justify shall not
and the said bonds shall be approved by the
governor and filed in the office Of the secretary
of state.
Until the bonds hereinbefore provided shall
be each properly made, approved and filed as so
required. no money shall be paid out of the state
Treasury in pursuance of the appropriation made
by this act or any other act OF appropriation by
the state and the treasurer of said wisconsin
Veterans home for the time being, who may re-
Ceive any moneys so appropriated. shall not,
upon the expiration of his term of office, or his
resignation thereof or removal thereirOm. in any
manner pay any moneys so received from the
state TO his successor until such sue,
cessOr shall have executed and
| filed an approved bond as herein required, but
1may discharge himself from further liability by
'depOsiting any balance of such moneys III his
hands with the state treasurer.
Section s. Ifany additional land shall be pur-
chased with the moneys herein or hereafter at
any time appropriated by the state to the said
Wisconsin Veterans home. the title thereto shall
be taken to the state and shall be held by and
for the uses and purposes OF the said home so
long used for the present objects and pur-
poses thereof, and no payment shall be made out
ofthe state treasury or otherwise for any such
land until the title shall have been examined
and the conveyance thereof to the state of Wis
consin approved by the attorney general, and
every such deed of conveyance shall be immed
lately recorded in the Office of the proper regis
ter of deeds by the board of trustees of said
home, and thereafter filed with the secretary OF
state.
Section 4. of the sum herein appropriated to
pay mortgage and Indebtedness there shall be
frs applied sufficient to pay for mortgage and
all liens anu membranes OF any Rlnd or ma
ture upon the real estate now used and occupied
for said home. and the title to which has been
/. conveyed to the state; and the board OF trustees
shall procure due and proper release thereof
and deposit such mortgage and every such re-
lease, after having been recorded in the othce OF
the register OF deeds with the secretary of state
Section ). Before any part of the moneys
herein appropriated for buildings shall be ex
pended, the board of trustees OF the Wisconsin
Veterans home shall prepare plans and specil,
cations and estimates OF such buildings, and
shall submit the same 10 the governor for his
approval who, for that purpose, may employ the
services of any architect, engineer OF builder
on account OF said moneys so appropriated, ano
until the approval by the governor OF such
plans, specifications and estimates. the secretary
OF state shall not draw his warrant for payment
from the treasury of the moneys appropriated
for such purpose.
ANY moneys which may be saved by the board
ssof trustees from the special appropriations fol
buildings or other purposes herein provided for
after the accomplishment of such purposes, may
BE expended by the said board of trustees fol
such other permanent improvements and equip
ment for said home as shall be approved by the
governor as necessary and proper.
Section 6. 1t shall be the duty of the BOARD o
trustees of said home to cause to be kept true
ana accurate account of the disbursements o
the moneys heron appropriated. and OF al
moneys derived from the state at any time, anC
annually TO make report in writing to the gov
ernor giving true and ilemized accountin sucf
form as he may require or prescribe, of all eX
penditures made OF moneys appropriated by thi!
act or in any manner derived from the state, anC
also OF the names and number OF inmates The
date of admission, time of occupancy, age anC
residence of each, the regiment company, bat
terry or other similar organization in which
such inmate served during the civil war, or o
the person on account of which such inmate wal
admitted TO the home, and also the names mum
Der and salaries of the officers employees ant
laborers employed in said home, and the funC
from which they are paid and also the tota
amount and receipts and expenditures of the
said Wisconsin Veterans home, ana such othe
detail pertaing to or effecting expenditures fol
It's maintenance or benetit,as may be required by
the governor. Such report shall cover the perioC
OF the fiscal year ending September 80, and bt
submitted on or before the first day of November
each year.
Section :. The state board of control, or suct
board as may be by law intrusted with the su
perylsl0n of state institutions shall not less thar
twice in year. cause the said Wisconsin Vet
1 terans home to be visited by a committee of al
least two of the members of such board, who
shall carefully examine into the management Of
sale home, its system of accounts and of keeping
books, and methods of purchase of supplies
thereof. and the manner of their issuance and
Expenditure, and care and keeping of the in.
mates of SAID home, the provision made for the
comforts of such inmates, their treatment by
officers and employees and such other details oil
the management of the said home as they may
deem proper to inquire into, and as they shall be
thought likely to promote the objects for which
the same is maintained, and they shall make
full report thereon to the governor and TO the
legisaeure in the manner required by law
and it shall be the duty of the board of trustees
and the officers and employees of said home 10
facilitate such examination and inquiries ny
disclosing all facts in relation to the
same. and exhibiting all books, papers and
vouchers affecting the expenditure of moneys
But this section shall not give to the
SAID state board of control any
power of direction or any authority
10 interfere with the management of the said