River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-14


the County Board of Pierce County shall
appropriate the sum of eight hundred
dollars, being the remaining half of the
cost of such bridge and cause such sum
of said county as WILL with the amount
so provided by said town, be sufficient
to defray the cost of erecting such bridge,
and to provide for appointment Of a
vided in Section 1919 R. S. and acts
amendatory thereof.
Dated November 18th, A. D. 1905.
MIKE FOX,
Chairman.
PAUL GILES,
JULIUS FLINN,
Supervisors.
for Depository of the County Funds re-
ported as follows:
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
of Pierce County:
We, the committee to whom were re-
ferred the proposals to receive the county
funds on deposit for one year from the
first day of next January, do hereby re-
port that the court house funds have been
accepted and held by the Farmers and
Merchants State Bank at the same rate
OF interest as fixed for the general funds
for the year 1905, and that by reason
thereof we would respectfully recommend
that the rOposal of said bank be accepted
and said bank be designated as the coun-
ty depository for the ensuing year, be-
ginning Jan. l, 1906.
Dated November Is, 1905
E. J. FITZGERALD,
ED MURPHY,
JOHN G.. PRICHARD,
Committee.
Above report was on motion accepted
and adopted.
On motion Board adjourned until 8
o'clock tomorrow morning.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16.
Board was called to order at o'clock
in the forenoon. Roll called Sup.
Bailey absent. Journal read and ap-
proved.
The following resolution was on mo-
ton accepted and adopted:
Whereas, The building now used for
Jail is not in condition to be heated
during the coming winter by wood stoves
with safety to either the building or the
occupants, and
Whereas, a proposition for installing
two large radiators and connecting them
with the boilers so that the building can
be heated with steam, has been submit
ted by Holt & Dahlby for the sum Of
forty-five dollars; therefore
Resolved That the County Agent be
and hereby is instructed to contract with
Holt & Dahlby to put in the fixtures for
heating the Jail with steam, as per their
proposition, for the sum of forty-fve dol
lars.
Sup. Spriggle introduced the follow
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cepted and adopted:
Resolved by the County Board of Super
vtsors of Pierce County:
That the decision of this Board in
adopting the report of the committee rec
ommending the f. & M. Bank of River
Falls as the place of depositing the coun-
W D. sPRIGGLE.
Report of Special Committee on Pro-
posals for County Depository was re-
considered and on motion accepted.
Sup. Scott presented the following
resolution which was accepted and
adopted by the calling of ayes and nays
as follows:
Resolved, That the Farmers and Mer-
chants State Bank of the City of River
Falls be and said bank is hereby desig-
mated as the county depository for the
ensuing year, commencing January 1st
1906.
Provided, that such bank shall file a
bond in the penal sum of at least double
the amount of the maximum deposit to
be placed in such depository on or before
the first day of December, 1906 which
bond shall have been duly approved by
the County Board.
And such bank shall pay four per cent
interest on daily balances, such interest
to be credited to the county each month
will be subject to draft and payment at
all times on demand.
DAVID SCOTT.
Ayes: Murphy, Fitzgerald, Bliesner.
Guiser, Finn, Scott, Foley, Gilmore,
Severance. Moody, Decker, Prichard, i
Martin, Chinook, TAFT (15).
Nays: Johnson, Shanks, Swanson,
Spriggle, Corcoran, Brown, Fox, Nc
Nassau, Manion, Mcdonald (1O).
A letter from the Superintendent of
the State Public School was read to
the Board /