Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-01-16


Star, the Dodgeville Chronicle, the Dodgeville
Sun, the lows County Democrat and Mineral
Point Tribune be each declared official paper
OF the county, your committee are unable. with
the views which they entertain, To recommend
that the prayer of petitioners be granted. The
present board has no power to designate G fl iaI
papers for the next board. 1t ight do so for the
purpose Of printing The proceedings of your BODY
al TINS adjourned session, but your committee do
OF deem Il desirable that such should lie done
The cost 10 the county for the publication OF the
proceedings for the present meeting in the three
ofnclal papers OF the county will be iorty-ve dol
lars To publish the same in the six papers men
TONED would cost ninety dollars. In the opinion
of Your conmitte, due regard for economy re
qulres that the needless expenditure of forty
saved for the county. With this view we feel that
the writer of the petition viii concur, inasmuch
as it Is in line with the economical policy demand
ed by him.
With reference TO the statement OF the petition
that some OF the papers named have complained
OF i'll treatment at the hands of this board your
committee can only say that there has
been some such complaints made, as it is in
formed and believes; but here and TO your hon
oraole body 1t suffces to say that such is untrue
IN the fact and intention. The exercise of econ
omy forbld~ the appointment of all papers as
official papers, and your committee, believes the
people of the county do not desire that your body
shall bow submissive TO q newspaper clamor that,
conceived in utter selfshness, proceeds without
regard to the true interests of The people to the
accomplishment of its purposes BY practices that
are open TO censure.
With reference to the complaint that recent
member of this board took compensation fO-
or two days service as member thereof when
in point OF fact he was absent, it may be said
that the party a member who represented
the town OF Arena, and was q member of the
County Board OF one year ago. The records OF
the County Clerk show, as your con mittee is ad-
yised, that he was absent one day aud fraction
of day, and that he was excused from service,
on account of his suffering indispositon, by the
chairman of the committee of which he was a
member, we are further advised In view of the
fact that members of cmmmittees so Important
~ III -,
nected perform much work at night, for which
no charge has ever been made, so far as your
committee is advised, and because Of the triviality
of the whole matter; and more particularly still
because your committee is disinClIned to Censure,
implicitly, honorable q body as the County
Board who preceded your body in office, de-
board.
With reference to the allegation of petitioners
that they are opposed to the County Board visit
ing the County Asylum in a body, obliged
to say that by no act of this board can we bind
future boards 10 any particular line of conduct in
the matter. II is for each successive board TO
erCise its discretion with reference thereto. But,
although II be as stated, your committee refuses
to assent to the wisdom of the suggestion of the
petition IN order that something IN the nature OF
precedent shall be established to deter future
County Boards from making, in body, at least
one annual visit to the County Asylum and Poor
Farm. In the opinion of yosr committee, the
of the one hundred and fifty unfortunate
people who abide at these places at the expense
of the county is high and sacred trust. To see
and know that they are provided for is, IN our
opinion, solemn duty of the County Board
We feel that considerations of humanity are
superior to the cost of livery in conveying the
County Board thttheI. In the opinion OF your
committee, money so expended is expended more
in accordance with all that is humane and noble
than TO make an addition % one newspaper to
The number of official papers of the county.
With reference 10 the requirements that an
itemiZed statement of the expenditures of the
county asylum and poor farm engagements be
filed with the county clerk of the county, it may
| no ai1 hat ha cts of iii 10
the duty of the Board of Trustees of county
asylum, to audit call bills against the asylum and
that they shall, at the annual meeting Of the
county board, make . full report TO the county
board, with estimate of the appropriations
needed for the ensuing year" This provision of
course commits TO their care all bills and books
relating to the expenditures thereof. report
such as the statute COntemplatea has invariably
been made to the various county boards by the
trustees of the asy lum, and the same has always
been printed in the proceedings of the county
board at the various annual meetings of the
same. Doubtless, under the general provisions
of law relating 10 county records, any citizen of
the county has the right to visit the asylum end
examine the books thereof in detail and as to
any particular items of interest to them. That
being the law of tIe state, your body will not be
inclined 10 legislate on the subject Certainly
your committee must decline to recommend the
doing of anything as suggested by the petition,
| mo matter what the law may be on the subject
AS to the matter of purchasing q new site fol-
| the Iowa County Agricultural Society, the peti
TONERS will be satisfied when they read the pro
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All of which is respectfully submitted
Dated January 9Th, 1891.
JoHN W TAYLOR,
A. CAMPBELL,
L q. BAKER,
SANE. SWINEHART,
ROBERT Nj. CRAWFORD,
Committee
On motion of Mr.. Jackson the re
/ port was adopted.
Mr. Crawford offered the following
resolution
To the County Board of Supervisors:
l respectfully submit the following resolu
| t ion
! county surveyor be, and the same is, hereb.
! fixed at five dollars.
Respectfully,
! Dated Jan. S, 1891. Il. NJ. CRAWFORD.
On motion the resolution was re
ferred to the District Attorney, with ;
request for report thereon at thu
afternoon session.
Mr.. Swinehart submitted the follow
ing report:
| To the Honorable Board of Supervisors:
| Gentlemen:-HOur committee to whom wa
! referred the several petitions for redemption
| of lands from tax sales, the purchase of Ger
tain tax certificates for refund of taxes, and Il
! purchase county lands, do hereby report ant
| recommend as follows:
| Ihat the petition OF william Nj. Rowe, to re
| deem tax certificates, held by Iowa county, TO
the years 1882, 1888, 1854. 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888
| 1883 and 1890 on the Sel4 of Sw4, l4-7-3, bt
| allowed at face, fees and per cent. interest.
| That the petition of Elizabeth kitLOe, to re
| deem all certificates in the hands of lows
| county on part lot No. 1872, in Harrison's sur
vey, in the city of Mineral Point. from tax sales
of S6,'S7,-'SS,-'S9 and 1890, at face anC
| fees, be allowed.
That the petition of John NancoIas, to re
deem all tax certificates held by the county on
| lot No. 1874, in HarrisOns survey, in the city OF
| Mineral Point, for $50, be allowed.
That the petition of John MOrrSey, to pur-
chase all certificates in the county on lots No.
| to 6, inclusive, block |, village of AVOaa for
one dollar, be allowed.
hat the petition of Henry Bradley, to pur-
chase all certificates held by the county on the
ei2 of e12 of Eel4 of nwl4, section 10, town :,
range ), for the sum of five dollars, be allowed.
That the petition of L. Zebarth, to purchase
of the county the following tract of land to-
wit: The neI4 of the nwI4 OF section 20 town
5, range :, for the sum of twenty-five dollars,
be allowed.
That the petition of David Jacko to cancel
tax certificate of the year 1890 on the follow
ing described land: 40 feet front on Fountain
street, in NleitS survey, except that part of
said lot decided to II. ). Clauer, and recorded in
Book ). of deeds page AZ; also feet front on
Fountain street of lot 40, i'll NIeit's survey;
said parts of lots 40 ana Al decided to Ed. Coad,
Jr., by Nicholas COad and.wife, and recorded in
Book % of deeds, page sic, be granted.
We further recommend that the privileges
herein mentioned be limited to 30 days from
date.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
SAM'L SwINEHART,
L. l.. WILLIAMS,
Committee.
On motion of Mr. Steensland the re-
port was adopted.
The fOIInwinU resolution yvaC Offaro1