The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-11-25
Short Session of County Board.

The Rock county board of supervis-
ors closed their annual meeting with
four days. session on Friday. f. F.
Livermore of Beloit was elected one of
the asylum trustees to succeed George
Barker. S. S. Jones was elected county
highway commissioner to succeed III. l..
Skavlem and F. P. Starr as supervisor
of assessments to succeed himself The
salary of the highway commissioner
was fixed at ST. 900 per annum. On
county asylum.
In accordance with a resolution pass
ed, the county will hereafter contract
with the register of deeds as an indi-
vidual and not as an officer to carry on
the abstract business. Meantime the
Rock county representatives in the leg
islature will be requested to use their
influence to secure the amendment of
chapter 1856 of the laws of 1910 in such
a fashion as to permit counties with a
population of $4,000 or over as well as
those with $4,000 to engage in the abb
stract business, in order That the local
system may be expressly authorized. :"
Aresolution adopted provides that
the special committee heretofore ap-
pointed to consider litigation with ref
erence to the copying of the county
abstract records by C. HI. Weirick be
continued and the committee is author
lied to make the best possible settle
ment with the special counsel employed
in the matter.
Four GAINESVILLE banks, jointly, Of
fered to pay 2 per cent on daily bal
ances for the county funds. The State
and Second National banks of Beloit
offered jointly to pay three and one
tenth per cent and were again desig-
mated as the official repositories.
The finance committees report pro-
vides for the levy of taxes for various
needs in the following amounts: Gen.
eral Purposes, $50, 900; Soldiers Relief,
SIS, 500; Permanent highway fund three
tenths of MILL, SIC, 500; county school
tax to be apportioned and levied upon
taxable property of the several towns,
villages and cities in sums equal in
amount to the school fund income ap-
portioned to the said towns, villages
and cities by the state for the current
year $38, 1885 Total $110, $685..
Rock county will raise sos, 1855 for
state purposes. Some of the items in
this budget are: State university, S22,-
780. 50; Normal schools, So, 882.27; Com
mon schools, $40, 999. %; New Capitol,
S13, 079.47; Northern hospital, 81, 1922.
There are special charges against the
county for inmates of asylums, indus
trial schools and tuberculosis sanitor-
ium, totalling SIS, O78.37 special charges
on the school districts amounting to
So, $685.; and levy on the county
school districts for the compensation
and allowance of the school superin-
tendent and his clerk of 81, 400.
The committee on equalization re-
ported the valuation of all property at
$55, 600, 900 as basis of taxation.
Grow and hawk bounties in twelve
towns aggregated over $500. F. G.
Grant was allowed 500 for taking testi-
mopy insthe Weirick case. The Hotel
Myers was allowed $124 for the board
of jurors. The Wisconsin Industrial
school for girls gets 81, 1863. 26 and the
Home for the feeble minded, 81, 784: 60:
Reporting for the Soldiers Relief
commission, L. M. Nelson showed that
the total relief dispensed had been
SIS, 1868 and that there was balance
on hand of So, 231.55.
The board adjourned to Jan. 4th.