Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-11-20

On motion of Mr.. Him the re-
port was adopted.
Dist. Attorney Brown gave it as
his opinion that all homeless child
rem" irrespective of whether they
are county charges, was meant by
the committee that framed the reso-
luton relative to placing homeless
children in the Children's Home So
ciety.
After discussions by Messrs.
Brennan, Blaine and Leighton, the
latter placed on motion before the
board providing that the county
clerk and county treasurer be in
structed to construe the resolution
regarding the placing Of homeless
children in ''homes" as to mean only
county charges. Carried.
Mr.. Him moved that commit
tee of three be appointed to look
into the Feasibility of purchasing an
adding machine in the court house
for the benefit of the county officers
and the county board. Carried.
The chair appointed Messrs.
Him, Griffis and Edwards.
Board adjourned to $3.50 a. m.
FRIDAY MORNING.
Board called to order at 3:45.
Roll call. Quorum present.
Meeting of previous meet ng read
and approved.
Mr.. Klinkhammer presented the
following resolution which was laid
over under the rules:
Lancaster Wis, Nov. IA, 1902
To the Hon. Board of Grant Co.
conference.-the Il resolved that 1t is the
THAT the equalization or fixing of land
value on the scales OF sales made since t9Oo
as now done by the supervisor OF assessors S
does not make real value anu is therefore
unjust and unfair, and that 1t should oe
done by actual examination of competent
men.
2That the assessment of mortgages, land
contracts and other securities, as now as
sessed. is unjust, and in many cases amounts
to double taxation. That a law should be
enacted requiring the local assessors to
make memorandum of all debts resting on
real estate or other securities, and that the
debtor should be entitled to separate re-
ceipt for the taxes paid on his debts, and
that the creditor should be compelled to
credit his debtor to the amount of such re-
ceipt, meaning constitutional law Similar
to the Frost BILL
3-That the enaction of these proposed
laws would do away with the work OF me
supervisors of assessors and that therefore
this Office created by Sec 1888 and Sec. 44o,
laws of 1901, could and should be abolished.
4-That these resolutions be presented to
the legislature with the request to give them
- Respectfully submitted,
E. w. KLINKHAMMER.
Mr.. Bradbury presented the fol-
lowing resolution which was also
laid over under the rules:
Resolued, That the fees taken in by the reg
lister of deeds be turned over to the county
treasurer and that the county pay to the
register of deeds the sum of $1,000 per an
num- j. B. BRADBURY.
Mr.. Fessel's resolution concerning
the poor of the county was called
up, and Mr.. Leighton moved to lay
the matter on the table.
Upon concurrence of Mr.. Fessel,
the matter was laid over until the
evening session, upon motion Of
Mr.. Leighton.
The following report was present
ed ny thespecial committee on court
house:
To the Honorable, the County Board of
We. the undersigned committee, to whom
was referred the report OF the court mouse
that we have carefully examined the report
of said committee and inspected the plans
of the court house as proposed by them and
that we carefully examined all transactions
bv them made and examined and inveSti-
gated all their expenditures. and that we
find from such examination That they car
RED out to the letter so far as was in their
power the instructions of the board made at
It's last session. that they proposed and
adopted a plan for our new court mouse,
which is now in course of construction,
when completed will be credit to our coun-
ty and lasting monument to the present
generation.
We find that the work necessarily re-
Qured to be done in the planning of the new
court house has been very great and a task
which required the careful, painstaking and
patient consideration given to it by the COM
mittee They have proposed substantial
fire-proof and comm odiOus structure suff1ci-
ent for the needs of this county for many
generations to come. That they have pro-
posed structure which when completed as
first designed will be perfect in every re-
spect and approved by the people of this
county beyond any doubt. The work and
earnest endeavOrs OF the committee are en-
titled to prevail and appreciation by the
county board, and we recommend the adOp-
ton of their report.
Dated Nov. a 1902. J. p. CHANDLER.
NJ. FL RICHARDS,
HUGH MATHEWS,
E. G. THOMAS,
OTTO M. GEIGER,
VIM. LEIGHTON,
1NO. r. RTATNE.