The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-21

. S109 ,olo,5O
Supervisors of Kenosha County, regu-
larly assembled, as follows:
WHEREAS, there is now in the coun-
ty treasury of the County of Kenosha
the sum of Eight Thousand, Six Hun
dred, Sixty-six Dollars and Sixty-seven
Cents, ($8,666.67), received from the
sale of bond issue for the improve
ment of certain highways in the Town
of Pleasant Prairie, in the County OF
Kenosha, which sum was not used in
the construction of said highways dur
ing the year 1917, and which sum is not
now available for use in said town for
the construction of highways owing to
the fact that there is no state appro-
priation to add thereto for the purpose
of said highway construction;
NOW, THEREFORE,, BE TT RE-
SOLVED, that said amount of Eight
Thousand, Six Hundred Sixty-six Dol
lars and Sixty-seven Cents ($8,666.67)
be appropriated by the County of Ke-
nosha for the purpose of aiding the
construction of the State Trunk High
way System in the Town of Pleasant
Prairie in the County of Kenosha, and
that said amount be duly transferred
by the Treasurer of Kenosha County
to the Treasurer of the State of Wis
consin for the purpose of such high
way construction, such highway being
that part of the State Trunk System
beginning at the state line on what is
known as the Sheridan Road and rum
ming northerly on said State Trunk
Highway System to the concrete road
constructed during the year 1917 in a
southerly direction through said Town
of Pleasant Prairie.
Voted as follows: Ayes, II; Noes, O..
Motion carried and resolution duly
adopted.
Supervisor Priddis offers the follow
ing resolution as to the State Trunk
Highway System in the Town of Som
ers and granting the petitions of tho
several towns and moves its adoption:
Resolution of the County Board OF the
County of Kenosha.
BE 1T RESOLVED, by the Board of
Supervisors of Kenosha County, regu-
larly assembled, as follows:
WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Highway
Commission has notified the Clerk of
the County of Kenosha that the sum
of Twenty-Eight Thousand Dollars
1928, 100000 will be expended in the
year 1918 under the provisions of Chap
ter ITS, Laws of 1917, for Federal and
State Aid Road Construction on pro-
iect beginning at the north county
line in Section Five (5) Town Two ~
North, Range Twenty-Three (23) East,
and extending thence south along the
Sheridan Road about two miles to the
north end of the present concrete road;
the same is hereby approved and the
sum of Nine, Thousand Three Hundred
Thirty-Three Dollars and Thirty-Three
Cents $9,33333) is hereby appropri-
ated as the County's share of the cost
Of said construction.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that there
shall be assessed as a special benefit
against the Town of Somers for such
highway improvement the sum of One
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
($1, 100000, being an assessment of
One Thousand Dollars per mile, or
fraction thereof, of road construction;
such special benefit being assessed
against said town on the basis Of One
Thousand Dollars per mile, or fraction
thereof, for the reason that fifty per
cent of the amount appropriated for
such highway construction would, ac-
cording to the provisions Of Section
1914, be in excess of a charge of One
Thousand Dollars per mile for such
road construction.
WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Highway
Commission has notified the County
Clerk of the County Of Kenosha that
the sum of Thirteen Thousand -Four
Hundred and Thirty-Nine Dollars and
Fifty-Six Cents has been allotted to
this county under Section 1317m-1 to
Is; and
WHEREAS, Chapter $50, Laws of