Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-07-24
County Board Proceedings
County Board called together at 1;50
p. N. by Chairman Backstrom.
Resolution M

Resolution No. g.
Offered by supervisor Fred Meloy.
Whereas at the annual meeting of
the board of supervisors of Villas
county. held on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1918, the county board, for the
purpose of providing revolving fund
to enable the farmers of Villas county
to secure sufficient supply of pure
seed for the growing season OF 1918,
appropriated the sum of six hundred
dollars, to be used by the county
agricultural committee and the county
agricultural representative in pur-
chasing seed and distributing the
same to the farmers of Villas county,
and
Whereas the demand for such pure
seed was so great that said sum of
six hundred dollars was not sufficient
to provide the necessary working fund
and upon consultations between the
county agricultural committee, the
county agricultural Representative
and the members of this board, the
county clerk and county treasurer
were instructed to draw and issue an
additional county order or the fur
Their sum of one thousand dollars to
increase the said revolving fund to
the sum of sixteen hundred dollars,
Now be it resolved by the county
board of supervisors of Villas county,
in meeting duly assembled, that the
action of the county clerk, the county
treasurer, the county agricultural
committee and the county agricul-
tural representative had in admins
tering said revolving fund and carry
ing out intent of the resolution
adopted February 18th, 1918, and in
providing the said additional one
thousand dollars be and the same is
in all things approved, and
The county agricultural committee
and the county agricultural repre-
sentative is hereby instructed to re-
turn to the county treasury such
part of said sixteen hundred dollars
as he may have collected in, and to
return to the county treasury from
time to time, as further sums are col
lected in, such sums and TO file with
the county clerk complete and de-
tailed report of their action in admin
istering said revolving fund to the
end that there may be a record of the
aid thus furnished to our farmers and
our country in this war.
Dated this 10Th day of June, 1918.
Fred Meloy,
Supervisor.
On motion the foregoing resolution
was unanimously adopted.
To the County Board of Supervisors
of Villas county, Wisconsin,:
Gentleman: Your petitioner respect
fully shows:
That on the goth day Of June, 1916,
the county clerk of Villas county
executed and delivered to Nichols
Frissell Co. a tax deed covering among
other descriptions the southwest
quarter of section twenty-five, town
forty-four north, of range five east,
said tax deed being based on a tax
certificate issued for the sale of 1913;
that said tax deed is recorded in the
in the Office of the Register of Deeds
in and for Villas county, Wisconsin,
in Volume IA of Deeds, on page 434.
That tax certificate 81, amounting
to $1S. Is, was issued on said descrip-
ton for the sale of 1915, and tax GER
tiicateS 119 amounting to $20.33 was
issued on said description for the sale
of 1916.
The said tax deed and said certiti-
Gates are illegal for the reason that
lands were not entered until April IL,
1918, and at the time of assessment
upon which such deed and certificates
are based the lands were owned by
the United States Government and
not subject to taxation.
Petitioner prays that said tax deed
be cancelled and the county clerk
authorized to execute certificate of
of cancellation pursuant to statute;
petitioner further prays that the said
tax certificates be cancelled,
Turtle Lake Lumber Co.
BY C. H 9Wiegand Atty.
Approved Geo. E. o'Connor Dist.
Atty,
Resolution No. A.
Resolution number 4 offered by
supervisor John +. Hanson.
Resolved by the county board of
supervisors of Villas county, Wis,
that certain tax deed heretofore ex-
ecuted by the county clerk of Villas
county, Wisconsin, to Nichols-F rissell
company covering the southwest
quarter of Section twenty-five, Town
ship forty-four north of Range five
east, based on a certificate for the
sale of 1873, which deed is recorded
in The office of the Register of deed in
and for Villas county, Wis, in volume
IA of deeds, on page 434, be and the
same hereby is declared illegal for the
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