Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-23
SPECIAL SESSION OF COUNTY BOARD.
County Clerks Official Minutes o! Proceed
ings Held May 7, 8, and 9.

held, WOOD County. Wisconsin.
On motion the above petition was
referred co the committee on roads
and bridges.
The clerk read the following petit
tion:
To the Honorable the County Board
of Supervisors of Wood County,
Gentlemen: Al the annual town
meeting held in and for the town Of
Port Edwards in said county on the
second day of April. it was voted to
build a bridge across Lynn Creek
where the public highway crosses said
creek leading from Nekoosa south in
the NE9 of the NW4 of Sec. 2S,
Town q, Range 5E.
Said bridge to be built at a cost not
to exceed one $4,000 thousand dollars.
The town of Port Edwards having
voted to raise five $4,000 hundred
dollars to cover one half of the cost of
said bridge it being more than one IL
fourth of one per cent of the last
assessed valuation Of said town, we,
the undersigned supervisors of said
town of Port Edwards respectfully ask
that you appropriate from the county
funds not otherwise appropriated the
amount necessary to build one ~ half
OF said bridge.
Said amount to be determined when
the bridge is completed.
For this we do ever pray. Dated at
Port Edwards, Wis, this 10Th day of
April 1901.
E. EICHsTEADT, Chairman
CASPER GUERTLER
d. M. REIN
Board of Supervisors of the town of
Port Edwards, Wis.
On motion the above petition was
referred to the committee on roads
and bridges.
A petition from citizens of the
town of Rock, asking county aid on
roads in that town was read by the
clerk, and on motion referred to
supervisor McTayish Of the town of
Rock.
Supervisors, Berg and Krings were
excused by the chairman.
The clerk read the following petit
tion from the sheriff of Wood County.
To the Honorable, The County
Board of Supervisors of Wood County,
Sconsin:-Gentlemen The under
signed, sheriff of Wood County, would
respectfully represent and show to
you that the price now allowed by
standing resolution of the county
board of supervisors for the board of
prisoners tO-wit: the sum of fifty cents
$50 cents) per day is inadequate to
defray the necessary expenses and
labor and care incident to the manage
ment of the common jail;
That while there may be at times
several persons confined therein, and
enough so that if they were constantly
there, the pay allowed by you would
be sufficient:
1t is unnecessary for me to state to
you that some are committed for only
short period; none for any consider
able length of time and they come and
soon go, and require more attention
and care than constant, steady
bOarderS would;
That the price of provisions and
labor has considerably advanced from
what it was at the time you reduced
the compensation from Seventy-tive
cents rs cents per day to fifty cents
$50 centS) per day and it is as much
trouble and requires fully as much
help and assistance to wait on one or
two prisoners as would be required to
wait on half dozen or more.
That the duties of my office require
me to receive whoever may be COM
mitted, whether they be few or many.
1t is also unnecessary for me to call
your attention to fact which is we'll
known by all the older members of
the county board, that the other
services, both criminal and civil,
which are required of the sheriff, and
which he is in duty bound to perform,
are much less renumerative than they
were at the time you reduced the
compensation for boarding prisoners.
My total fees for the month of
February amounted only to about
fifty dollars $780, You can readily see
that during that month my expenses
must of necessity have been consider
aoly more than I received, and similar
conditions are likely to arise at inter
walls throughout the whole term.
For these and many other reasons
which | will not take your time now
to enumerate [ ask you to carefully
consider my request: that the price for
boarding prisoners be raised from
fifty cents 80 cents) per day to it's
former standard of seventy-fve rs
cents) per day.
JAMES MCLAUGHLIN.