New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-09
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY.
Some Proceedings of the First
Commissioners.
Records That Have Never Been
Given Publication.
Excerps From the Records of the
Clerk of the Board.
(COntinued from last week. y

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were established at this meeting and a
tax for the support of the schools was
fixed at Sl.5 on every 800 valuation.
About this time it seems that the
clerk of the board felt the necessity of
having a seal and he made motion
to that effect and S25 was appropria-
ted for the purpose. ION the motion
OF Jacob Brust the bridge across the
Cottonwood river was reconsidered"
and a new date set for letting the bids,
which was to be the Sd Of August.
Upon that date the commissioners met
at the place where the bridge was to
be built over the Cottonwood river.
According to the record as set down
by Clerk Behnke.
'The clerk reported in regard to the
Cottonwood river bridge that he had
notified all undertakers for the con-
struction of said bridge, but nobody
had appeared and no proposals was
accepted by the clerk. =.
At this same meeting bill of FIR.
Julius for carrying a message to the
fort in the Indian war of last spring,
$780," was allowed.
Another meeting was held on the
10th of the same month to dispose Of
the question of letting the contract for
the erection of the Cottonwood river
bridge. Commissioners futile, Brust
and the clerk met at the place agreed
upon at the last meeting.
There was only one man, o.
Schramm, present being willing to
build said bridge by the job. Schramm
he agreed to build the bridge for the
sum of $500, that is concerning the
labor and iron works, but the county
had to furnish the timber and stone.
Schramm he further agreed to make a
plot of said bridge and file with the
clerk, also to give bond to the board
for the time of two years, bind .ng him
self to repair said bridge and if it
should be destroyed by high water to
build it new again during said time.
whereas the settlers living in the
vicinity had promised and agreed with
Commissioner Brust to furnish all the
timber for this purpose, Brust bound
himself to hire teams for hawking the
timber and stone and make report Of
it in the next meeting of the board.
1t was agreed the bridge must be fin
ished next spring, A. D. 1857, before
the highwater comes; (The date here
is evidently mistake as this meeting
was held in August, 1879
The new condition of the county and
the continual settling of places distant
from New Ulm called for frequent
changes and we find on the It'll of Sep
TENDER when the commissioners met
there were present A. futile and j..
Brust, and new precinct was added
to the number embraced in the county.
"Being business Of Importance in
regard to the term of District court
and the esta blishment of new pre-
cinct on the Watonwan river, before
the board. futile had caused this
meeting. A letter from Judge G.. E..
Flandreau notifying the commissioners
that the next term of District court for
the county of Brown was ordered for
I'D day of September.
"Resolved that the district court
should be held in the house of FIR.
Behnke. Then the list of grand jurors
and petit jurors was made out accord
ing to law. Provided that precinct
is established at the house of Philan-
der Hartshorn in the town of Madelia,
comprising all of government town
ships numbered as townships No. l07,
lO6 and LOS of range No. 80, west.'
The meeting on the 5th of October
appears to have been a very busy one.
The new precinct seems to have given
the commissioners trouble from the
start and the demand for road from
this settlement to the county seat was
made and the precinct was enlarged so
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as to accommodate more people who
were anxious to take part in the
government of the county. This road
was ordered and a road running from
New Ulm to the town of Waraju was
also ordered.
"Then Ulrich Lipp made complaint
before the board that John B. Castor,
judge of probate had neglected his .du-
ties concerning the estate of the late
deceased John Brandt. Whereupon
said John Castor replied that he could
not attend to his Office according to
law because he could not live in the
county seat and therefore had conclu-
ded to resign said Office. The resign
ment was accepted under that condi-
tion, that the said Castor must legally
settle the business being at present be-
fore the probate court. .
The matter of the assignment of John
B. Castor was taken up at the meeting
in November and the record reads as
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