Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-28

Court House committee for report on same at
this meeting.
Geo. w Brown read the following resolution
and petition:
RESOLVED, That the clerk of the circuit court
of this county be, and he is hereby required at
once to report to this board the names of all
jurors for the May and October 1895, terms OF
court, who were not allowed pay for full attend
ance up to the time of their final discharge, to-
gether with the amount which each would be
entitled to for full attendance and to his final
discharge.
Dated Oct. -, 1895, Grand Rapids, Wis.
To the County Board of Supervisors of Wood
County, Wisconsin:
We, the undersigned, represent to your Honor
able Body as follows:
That we served as jurors at the May, 1895,
term of the circuit court for said county, and that
we were excused from duty by the Judge Of said
court at three different times during said term by
reason of which we were off from jury duty five
days during said term, but that obliged
to hold ourselves in readiness to return to said
court and that we were not excused to exceed two
days at any one time and consequently TN
able to make any valuable use Of the time we were
so off from Jury duty but holding ourselves in
readiness therefor and practically lost that time.
That when we were paid our fees for serving
days While we were so excused from Jury duty, but
that at least three jurors who were excused from
duty for the same periods that were, received
pay for the full time.
We therefore petition you to allow us each
Ten Dollars, being $500 per day for said five
days of lost time.
Dated October 30th, 1895.
The resolution was adopted and the petition
with bills motion referred to District
Attorney.
p. N. Christensen comes in.
Geo. L. Williams, chairman of the court house
comm1tte, read the following report:
To THE HONORABLE, THE COUNTY BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OF WOOD COUNTY, WISCONSIN:
Conference.-The the undersigned Court Honse
Committee of your Honorable Board beg leave to
report for your information and approval as
follows:
Hereto annexed marked Exhibit No. J. is a
statement of bills and amounts certified to by us
and for which orders have heretofore been drawn
upon the county treasury by the clerk and chair
man Of this board
That hereto annexed marked No. 2 is bill of
the st. Louis Art Metal Co. for $1S9 "a being for
metal furniture for the vault in the office of the
County Judge, less freight upon the same. This
furniture obtained for the purpose of enabling
the County Judge to properly arrange and keep
on file the papers III his office. It is very complete
in all it's details, and the bill hereto annexed should
be allowed by your Honorable Body, which we
respectfully recommend
During the past year Samuel Parker has been
employed as ianitor for the court house building
at the salary of $4,000 month and 500 day
extra during the time the court is being
occupied and used either for court meeting of
the county board.
During the coming year and hereafter it will
be necessary to have the anitor mpoyed to attend
to the court house and the jail, and doubtless
larger salary will have to paid than heretofore
AS soon as the sheriff is able to occupy the new
house and new jail some work will probably be
done IN fitting up the basement of the court house
SO that parts of it be used for storage of
old papers and records and possibly an office for
the county superintendent,
These matters should be considered by the
board and recommendation direction on the
part of the board Or any of it's members will be
thankfully received by your committee.
Dated November 10Th, 1894.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. L. WILLIAMS,
Ohm SCHNABEL,