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County Board Proceedings.
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18th, 1918, and in providing the said
additional one thousand dollars be
and the same is in all things hereby
approved, and
The County Agricultural Commit
tee and the county agricultural rep
resentative is hereby instructed to
return 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 adj
ministering said revolving fund to
the end that there may be a record of
the aid thus furnished to our farmers
and to our country in this war.
Dated this 10Th day of June, 1918.
Signed Fred Meloy,
Supervisor.
On motion the foregoing resolution
was unanimously adopted.
To the County Board of Supervisors
of Villas County, Wisconsin:
Gentlemen:
Your petitioner respectfully shows:
That on the Doth day of June, 1916,
the county clerk of Villas County eX-
ecuted and delivered to Nichols-Fris-
sell Co. a tax deed covering, among
other descriptions the Southwest
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter Of
Section Twenty-Five, Township Forty
four North, of Range Five East, said
tax deed being based on a tax certifi
cate issued for the sale of 1913; that
said tax deed is recorded 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 No. 81, amount
ing to $1S. l5, was issued on said de-
Scription for the sale of 1915, and tax
certificate No. 119 amounting to S2O.33
was issued on said description for the
sale of 1916.
That said tax deed and said tax GER
Gificates are illegal for the reason
that lands were not entered until
April II, 1918, and at the time of the
assessment upon which such deed and
certificates are based the lands were
owned by the United States govern
ment and not subject to taxation.
Petitioner prays that the said tax
deed be cancelled and the county
clerk be authorized to execute a GER
tificate of cancellation pursuant to
statute; petitioner further prays that
the said tax certificates be cancelled.
Turtle Lake Lumber Co.
By G. Ell. Weigand, Atty.
Approved by Geo. e. O'Connor,
District Attorney.
Resolution No. 4.
Resolution No. 4 Offere bV SuperViS-
or John e. Hanson.
Resolved by the county board Of
supervisors of Villas county, WiScOn-
sin, that certain tax deed hereto
fore executed by the county clerk Of
Villas county, Wisconsin, to Nichols
FriSsell Co. covering the southwest
quarter of the southwest quarter of
Section Twenty-Five, township forty
four north of range five east, based on
a certificate for the sale of 1913,
which deed is recorded in the office of
the register of deeds in and for Villas
county, Wisconsin, in volume Il of
deeds. on page 434, be and the same is
hereby declared illegal for the reason
that the lands belonged to the United
States at the time OF the assessment
on which said tax deed is based, and
the county clerk is hereby author
lied and directed to execute a certifi-
cate of cancellation pursuant to the
statutes.
Further resolved that those two
certain certificates described as fol-
lows: number 81, amounting to Sl8.
Is, for the sale of 1915, and Number
I19, amounting to $20.33 for the sale
of 1916, covering the southwest quar-
ter of the southwest quarter of sec
tion twenty-five, township forty-fo
north of range five east, be and the
same are hereby declared illegal for
the reason that the said land was
Government land at the time Of the
assessment upon which said ce'tltl-
Gates are issued was made.
Signed John E. Hanson,
Supervisor.
On motion the foregoing resolution
was unanimously adopted.
Resolution No. 5,
Resolved by the county board Of
supervisors of Villas county that there
is hereby appropriated out of the
General Fund to the Villas County
Agricultural Society for the year 1918
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.
Dated this 18th day of June, 1918.
Signed Henry Rath
Supervisor.
On motion the foregoing resolution
was unanimously adopted.
Resolution No 6.
Resolution by the county board of
supervisors of Villas county that there
is hereby appropriated out of the
General Fund to the American Red
Cross Second War Fund the sum of
Ono Thousand Dollars and
Be 1t Further Resolved that the
chairman of this board and the coun-
ty clerk be and they are hereby au-
thorized and directed to draw a
County Order made payable to the
American Red Cross Second War
Fund for said sum of One Thousand
Dollars and the county treasurer is
hereby authorized and directed to is
sue his check in payment of said or
der, said check also to be made paya-
BILE to the American Red Cross Second
War Fund and deliver the same to
Geo. e. O'Connor, Director for Villas
county.