The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-12-12
County Board Adjourned
on Friday After Record
Breaking Session.
TO SUE FOR BILLS OF INSANE
Board Directs the District Attorney to
Take Action to Collect Bills for Care
of County Patients in Various State
Institutions.
COUNTY BOARD IN TABLOID.

COUNTY BOARD IN TABLOID.
Appropriated $4,000 for Tuber-
culosis Hospital.
Declined to open training school
for teachers.
Appropriated $4,000 for building
highways in the county and $2,-
600 for the purchase of road ma
chinery.
Levied taxes of $4,000 for vari-
Gus uses of the county and state.
Appropriated aid for building sew
en- bridges in the county.
Accepted the resignation of John
G. Williams as Highway Commits
sioner and named Michael G.. Nc
Geehan to succeed him.
Ordered suits brought to collect
fees for the care Of insane pa
TENTS.
Made appropris ton to Clerk of
Court IF 5000.
Placed all records of Highway
work in the keeping of the Coun-
ty agent.
Opened new Office for Supervisor
Of Assessments.
Made annual visit of inspection to
the Racine county Asylum for the
insane.
Broke all records for number Of
days in session.
Failed to repeal crow bounties.
Removed South end of Park ave-
nue. from county Highway system.
This is in brief the bushes
done by the County Board of Kenosh
county which closed it's annual NJ
vember session on Friday afternoo
after holding longer continuous ses
sion than any county board ever SCI
wing in the county. The board was i
session for Nineteen days and the cos
in salary and mileage to the count
was $966.70. To this must. be adde
the expense of the one day session hel
following the spring election and thi
brings the total up to $1,027. TIL
members Of the board now face an I'LL
usual condition. Under the state lay
they may draw salary for but twent
days and this time has all been use
up. In strict compliance with the LAY
it would be necessary for the men
bers Of the board to serve without pa
at the annual January session.
There was little work done at tn
closing session of the board On Frida
afternoon beyond the passing of tn
resolution for the pay of members an
for the appropriations which had bee
made during the session.
During the last session of the boar
the matter Of collection of fees for il
sane patients charged to the count
was taken up and the board by rest
luton decided to carry this matter il
to the courts. The resolution passe
provides that the county clerk mus
send bills to the relatives of all il
sane patients and if these bills are nc
paid within ten days he must certif
all unpaid accounts to the district al
torney and that official must start suit
in court to enforce the payment of tn
claims of the county. The resolutio
is a radical departure and should !
prove successful in this county it
probable that the same plan will
adopted by other counties in the stat,
There is much business left over fc
the January session of the board.
start has been made on the buiIdin
of the proposed tuberculosis sanitar
UNI and should the site selected NEE
the approval of the state board {
control it is probable that contract
for the buildings will be let at tn
January meeting. Plans for the built
ings have been provided for by tn
state committee and it is probable thu
the buildings will be done of franz
It is thought that the work of col
struction can be completed within fou
months.
Some Of the bills of the highway d,
partment have not as yet been PAL
and people having claims against TIL
department have been instructed t
present the bills to the board at til
January session.
In spite of the fact that the count