Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-21

IdlIy 1uOLHdo. ....... .SLeIly Co"ll
Simon Worlund. .Sigel town
Peter Mullen. n.......... Saratoga town
Martin Jackson. Seneca town
Jos. Z. Arpin. ........... VeSper town
James X. P. Hiles. Wood town
Ed Provost, the newly appointed
supervisor to ill vacancy of Ferd.
Phillips Of Town of Rudolph, was
sworn in by the clerk.
On motion reading Of the minutes
of the preceding meeting was dis
penSed with.
Petition of Haskell Bick asking for
arebate on taxes was read and on
motion referred to committee on
illegal taxes.
Supervisor Brown presented and
read the following resolutions:
Be it resolved, that the county
procure journal Of survey of Wood
county, the same to be the property
of Wood county for the benefit of the
county surveyor and Wood county in
general and that this county board
appropriate sufficient sum to pay
for the same.
1t was moved to adopt same and
amended to lay same over to next
meeting of the board. The molten
prevailed as amended. The resolution
was laid over.
VIM. Hooper, chairman of the
finance committee, read that COM
mittee's report on the outgoing
officers as follows:
To the Honorable the County Board
of Supervisors of Wood County,
Gentlemen: In accordance with
resolution adopted Nov. q, 1900,
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finance committee to engage such
clerical help as he thought necessary
to check up the accounts of the out
going county officers, and under
authority of said resolution / engaged
Orin Gray, A. n. Palmer and |. E.
Philleo to do said work, and | having
spent several days with them while
they were checking up. am satisfied
that the work has been done thorough
ly and carefully, and have made the
report of the Especial Checking Up
Committee" part Of the report of
the finance committee.
There are several matters that we,
the finance committee. deem it our
duty to bring before the board for
consideration. First, in the annexed
report we find four a. orders issued by
the county clerk as follows:
No. 1851, D. D. Conway, 1923. for
one weeks extra work as district
attorney.
No. 1858, NJ. G. Fleckenstein, S26 92,
for one weeks extra work as treasurer.
No. 1853, W. H. Reeves, S26.92, for
one weeks extra work as county clerk.
No. 1910, VIM. White, S11.53, for
one weeks extra work as clerk of the
court.
Amounting to total Of S84.57.
These orders have not been counter
signed by the chairman of the county
board, but were paid by the treasurer
and are included in the settlement.
MessrS. Conway, Fleckenstein,
Reeves and White claim they are
entitled to these orders for one week
over time on their term. This is a
question that we present for your
consideration.
Second, In the settlement of the
Fox River improvement Co. tax suits,
we find order No. 1913 to Lyman E.
Barnes for payment of costs in said
suits, amounting to $4,000.
Is this a proper charge against
Wood county, or should it be charged
back to the city of Marshield?
This may be included in the repor t
of the EX-District Attorney, but we
consider it our duty to call the
attention of the board to this matter,
in case it should be overlooked.
Third, We would suggest that the
county treaSurerS in the future should
strictly comply with the law in the
payment of county orders.
We refer to the practice of paying
orders not cOunterSigned by the
chairman of the board, and the
practice of paying money belonging to
towns and state and moneys expressly
appropr ated for stated special pur-
poses for general expenses.
Fourth, We recommend that the
illegal and outlawed tax certificates
as enumerated in exhibit ''E'' and
sc" of annexed report be cancelled
by county clerk and county treasurer,
and the face of tax charged back to
the proper accounts.
We present to be destroyed:
County orders. ...... .......S ~, Iol "
Court orders. rS............... LIB 5O
Jurors certificates. ....... 2,259 Al
Witness certificates. .. All S6
Jail Bonds and coupons. $3.50 90
1UUdl. =. % 81, io- -
Jail bonds Nos. 10, II, L, 13, ii and
Is, paid, includes all Jail bonds issued.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
Dated Grand Rapids, Wis, Feb. II,
1901.
Signed,
WM. HOOPER,
WIN. A. ZELM,
MARTIN JACKSON,
Jos. L. ARPIN
JACOB SPECHf
-. Finance Committee.
Continued in next weeks paper.)