Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-02-01
FINN LAWLER,
County Clerk.


Board of Supervisors of Villas coun-
ty met at ! o'clock p. m. pursuant 10
ad journment, all members present.
The meeting was called to order by the
Honorable chairman.
The following petition was then read
by the clerk, viz:
To the Board of Supervisors of Villas
county, Wisconsin,:
The petition of the undersigned
Board of Supervisors Of the town of
Eagle River in said county, respect
fully shows:
FIRST. That the town Of Eagle
River is one of the duly organized and
existing towns in said county.
SECOND. That the electors of said
town at a special town meeting, duly
called, and conducted according to law,
held at the Town Hall in the village of
Eagle River, in said town, on the Goth
day Of October, A. D. 1900 voted to
construct u permanent bridge, consist
ing OF two stone abutments and stone
piers and steel spans, across the Eagle
River at the foot of Ry street, in the
plated village OF Eagle River, in said
town of Eagle River, and duly author
lied the Board Of Supervisors of said
town of Eagle River to make applica-
ton to and borrow from the Commits
sioners Of Public Lands Of the State of
wisconsin, q sufficient sum of money to
pay one-half of the estimated cost of
constructing said bridge, according to
the plans and specifications furnished
by one J. PITT of the city of Manitowoc,
Wis.
THIRD. That the Board Of Supervi-
sors of said town on the Goth day of
November, 1900, duly filed their veri-
fled petition with the Board of Super
visors Of said county, setting forth the
facts aforesaid aud the further fact that
the estimated cost Of said bridge would
be ST, 10000, and that the total cost of
constructing said bridge would exceed
one-fourth of one per cent of all the
taxable property in said town Of Eagle
River, according to the last proceeding
valuation thereof, and prayed that the
County Board of Supervisors of SAID
county appropriate the other one-half
of the costs of said bridge, viz, the sum
of Thirty five hundred dollars, and al
so that the same be levied upon the
taxable property of said Villas county
in accordance with the provisions of
Section 1919, of the statutes of 1898,
and further complying with said statute
in their said petition, and
WHEREAS, said petition was duly
acted upon by said Board of Supervi-
sorS of said county as appears from
resolution No 10, duly passed and
adopted by said Board, wherein and
whereby the said County Board of Su-
pervisors in acting upon said petition
appropriated the sum of Two thousand
dollars to aid in the construction of
said bridge and at the same time APP
propriating the sum of One thousand
dollars, to aid In the construction of a
bridge in the town OF Minocqua, in said
county, appropriating In all the sum of
Three thousand dollars to aid in the
construction of the building OF bridges
in the towns IN said county, the said
sums so appropriated being, two mills.
on the dollar of the total equalized
valuation of all ofethe taxable property
of said county, according to the equal
lied valuation thereof, as fixed for the
proceeding year, and
WHEREAS there is still due the said
town of Eagle River from said county
OF Villas on account of the building of
said bridge as aforesaid, across the
Eagle River, in the village of Eagle
River in said town, which bridge has
been constructed at cost in excess of
Twelve thousand dollars, and the said
county of Villas being liable to the said
town Of Eagle River for the balance of
said sum so petitioned for, viz, the sum
of Fifteen hundred dollars
IT IS THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the
Board of Supervisors of the town of
Eagle River, Villas county, Wisconsin.
that the members of said Board pre-
sent and file with the County Board of
Supervisors, this their petition. pray