Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-07
Schedule I'D" shows as follows:

Out-lawed certificates mo deed held by Co.'s 7S1 sc
Cancelled by order OF court (see clerk of
courts record l63 or
Cancelled by receipt exhibited .............. 81 &c
Cancelled, Wis. C. R r lands when assessed % 81
Erroneous 153 y
State and county lands when Assessed. SS1
Cut otfb by tax q 90
$11S4 OF
Total amount of certificates taken out
OF packages by us and former committee
OF four years ago is S1434.4 40.
We have listed in a book, marked sche-
dule ''E'' all certificates, good and bad,
classifying each kind by themselves
We have listed all the certificates that
are now in the county clerks office; also
all the certificates that the county lands
book shows deed TO county, and have
carefully re-checked the same, so that the
accounts as listed by us against the
county clerks office we believe are true
and correct and are as follows:
REDEMPTION.
Cash paid S 7. Young (receipts shown)..$ 1911 u
CONTINGENT
Cash paid s. T. Young (receipts shown. 2O2 0S
CERTIFICATES
Listed and good ..,. 11456 %
Old certificates put back by us.............. 4S4 rs
Taken from packages by S. T. Young be-
supposed TO be state ana government
ZOOS ~
Total amount of certificates on hand S13149 A
This amount we believe to be correct
and is chargeable to the county clerk S
office.
DEED CERTIFICATES.
Taken from packages and sold by S. T.
Young before being listed ................. Is IS
Lands that appear to be state and gov
eminent when the county took decd. 50 "a
Total amount OF deed certificates on ffle $1531 50
This amount we believe to be correct
and is chargeable to the Office of the
county clerk.
We have Cancelled on the sales books
and otherWays disposed of all certificates
shown on schedules ''C'' and CD. mark
ing opposite the number and description
OF each when not otherways marked this
mem. Sale and certificate Cancelled by
finance committee giving day and date
and reasons for cancellation.
We as committee further recommend
that a properresolution should be offered
and passed by the county board of super
visors at their annual session in 1891,
authorizing and directing the county
clerk, of Wood county, to furnish to the
county surveyor of the same county a
complete list and descriptions of all lands
IN Wood county, upon which the County
OF Wood holds and owns tax certificates
OF sufficient age to entitle the county to
a deed thereon as shown by the clerks
records, and that the county surveyor
be also authorized and instructed to pro-
coed and examine all of said lands so
listed from personal view prior to Janu-
airy l, 1892, so as to be able to make al
tidayit of nOn-occupancy of or occupancy
as the case may be, to the county
clerk, who upon the report and affidavits
OF said county surveyor shall be in
structed to at once proceed to take tax
deeds, to the County of Wood, on all of
said lands to which said county may be
entitled.
Our reasons for the foregoing recon-
mendations are that in certain towns of
this county a large amount of taxes, on
certain lands, are from year to year, re-
turned as delinquent, and the certificates
not being bid in at the annual tax sale
by individual purchasers, said certificates
become the property OF the county, and
on large bodies of this land these certifi-
Gates are of sufficient age to entitle the
county to a deed thereon, but under the
existing conditions . the county clerk is
Enabled to procure the necessary atfi-
davits upon which to take tax deeds
which results, in our Judgment in GER
tain towns, each year paying their
county tax by the delinquent returns and
delinquent roll under the provisions of
section lila r. S. of 1873, to the mani
fest in Justice of other cities and towns
in the county whose delinquent returns
and tax certificates are of more value.
By taking tax deeds to Wood county,
on all these lands, to which the certifi-
cate entities said county, these lands will
ultimately be withdrawn from assess
ment and will become the property OF
the county, will then be open for sale
to individuals and will be source of
revenue to the county, ultimately instead
OF an expense and burden.
We would further respectfully recon-
mend that a suitable resolution be pass
ed providing that each incoming county
clerk hereafter, and also the present
county clerk, be required to properly re-
ceipt to the County of Wood and to the
out going county clerk, for any and all
tax certificates and county property, that
may, or has come into his possession as
| said county clerk, and that proper re
cord be made thereof. In ouropinion such
mode of procedure will prevent mistakes
and errors, and will greatly facilitate
future settlements with the out going
county officers, as future finance com,
mittees will have a correct basis upon
which to begin a settlement.
We think this resolution proposed
should also be made to apply to the
clerk now in Office. 1t has not been the
practice heretofore for any county clerk
to give any receipt such as we have sug
gested and we think if orr recommends
tions be put in force by suitable resolu
ton it will result in very favorable re
suits, and greatly aid in future finance
committees in making correct settlement:
with out going clerks. All of which ii
respectfully submitted.
tS's'''l F Hss1l I: sssr Finance
! u J.; & p b e1fs0h COMMITTEE