Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-01-29

not $4,000 but sl4OO co. $4,000 being twenty
per cent of $70O0.00 as figure it. However
the Sl40O 90 will very materially help.
/ enclose attached hereto copy of my first
letter to tho Highway Commission Engineer
Mr.. Hirst, and Mr., Torkelsons letter. sug
gest it be made part of the record so it may
be where it can in the future be referred to il
necessary.
Very Respectfully,
GEO, E, O'CoNNoR.
Dated December 2lst. 1914.
December 4th, 1914,
Wisconsin Highway Commission.
Mr.. A. R. Hirst, State Engineer,
Madison, Wisconsin.
Dear Sirs- Re Villas County's proper
ton Of State Highway and Bridge Aid for
| 1914. ss*
| At the adjourned annual meeting of the
county board yesterday it was discovered that
the appropriation for two bridges in this
county, to be built with state aid and under
state supervision, which appropriation was
for 100000 and was appropriated by Resolu-
ton No. 2. adopted by the board on the 3Oth
day of July, 1914 through some oversight was
not certified to the state highway commission.
The only amount certified to the commission
was the $4,000 90 appropriated in September,
about the 23rd or oath, 1914.
Now under the apportionment of state aid
as it appears in your circular and as certified
to this county is $7500.OO, 1t strikes the writer
that Villas County is entitled to an additional
sum of $350O.0O as one-half of the $7,O0O.OO
bridge Appropriation. This 100000 as we'll as
the Sic. 100000 has been assessed and levied and
goes into the tax rolls this year.
The plans for these two bridges we're pre-
pared by the Highway Commission, the adj
vertisment for bids was prepared and made by
the Highway Commission and the letting Of
the contracts was done with the assistance,
advice and under the supervision of the State
Highway Commission and am unable to see
any reason why this county is not entitled to
the state aid on these bridges.
suppose it is too late to get this money
this year but if am right about this matter
then hope yon will make a record of this
matter so that Villas County will next
year receive this $35OO.OO state bridge aid.
am enclosing herewith certified copies OF
the July Both, 1914, bridge appropriation reso-
| luton and ais. certified copy of the 1914
county levy. These will show the two apprn
priations and levies
Thanking you for your interest and friend
ly feeling often shown to Villas County and
asking that you write me after considering
this matter. am. with kind personal regards
Yours very truly,
GEO. E. O'CoNNoR.
Madison Wis. December s. 1914.
Mr.. Geo. E. O'Connor,
District Attorney.
Eagle River, Wis
Dear Sir:
/ Your after of December addressed te
Mr., Hirst has been referred to me, am en-
nected with both of these bridges, but will say
that the plans and specifications for the Los
| Creek Bridge W ere turned over to your board
ithout definite information as to whether OF
/ not state aid was expected, and we have ha6
no advice regarding the same since that time
We have no knowledge that the bridge is built
nor have we ever approved a contract for this
particular bridge.
You are of course aware of the procedure
preli minary to allotting state aid to bridges
and we will say that this is just as necessary
| in case bridge is built in advance as if the
bridge were built in the regular time. In
fact, there is no legal warrant for this advance
work, and if the matter were finally tested.
do not know but that it would be held that
| the state highway commission had no right to
aliot state aid under such circumstances, but
| in cases where we consider the substance OF
the law had been fulfilled, we have proceeded
to allot state aid in precisely the same way as
where the letter had been complied with also
We are therefore proceeding to allot to Villas
County the sum of $3.50 which is the total
amount allowable under the law, bridge aid
being only twenty per cent, and viii proceed
| to make transfers to your county treasurer
when the stage of construction and the condi
ton of the state treasury will permit
Yours very truly
WISCONSIN HIGHWAY COMMISSION,
ByM w ToRKEIsoN. Bridge Engineer.
Motion made and seconded that the
communicated of Geo. E.O'Connor be
accepted and made part of the rec.
ord of this meeting. Motion carried.
all members voting ''aye".
Report of the committee on Illegal
Taxes was then presented and read.
TO the honorable the county board Of
supervisors of Villas county:
Gentlemen: We. your committee
on illegal taxes, to whonW was referred
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