New Ulm Post. [volume] (New-Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1864-1933, 1921-03-04
Joint Session Of the Boards
Of Brown. and Nicollet
Counties

Due notice having been served to
the members of the County Boards
of Brown and Nicollet Counties a
meeting was called to be- held at the.
County Commissioners Chambers in
the Courthouse, in the City of New
Ulm, Minnesota, on Thursday, Feb
ruary 18th, 1921, at ten o'clock A.,
NJ, for the purpose of considering.
the engineers final report as to the.
erection of the steel span purchased
from the City, of Rochester at the
so-called Cummings crossing over the
Minnesota river near Fort Ridgely.:
Agreeable, the meeting was called
to order by Commissioner Herman
Polkow of Brown County.
All the Commissioners were pres
ent except Commissioner Borne
mann of the Nicollet County Board
and Commissioners Polkow was re-
quested to preside, and he took the
chair accordingly,
The final report of c. N. Robert
son, Highway Engineer, as to the
mings bridge and done under CON
tract by J.. M. Hinderman, of Fair
fax, Minnesota, was duly considered,
and whereupon the following resolu-.
tion}was presented by Commissioner
c. Z. Palmer of Brown County, re-
ceivinng a second from Commissioner
Louis Precht of Nicollet County,
and said resolution was duly adopted
by the unanimous vote OF the Boards
WHEREAS, the County Board
of the County OF Nicollet, Mime
sofa and the County Board of Brown
County, Minnesota, this day met in
joint session for the purpose Of con
sidering the report of MIR. @. N.
Robertson, Highway Engineer, rela-
tive to the completion and accep-
lance of the socalled Cummings
bridge, erected jointly by the Coun-
ties of Nicollet and Brown, under a
contract heretofore entered into. with
one, j. M. Hinderman, of Fairfax,
Minnesota: and &, ~, - .
WHEREAS, the said Highway
Engineer reports that he approves
the payment of the balance due said
contractor, J. NJ. Hinderman, on
said contract amounting to, $3l77.25
plus, the sum of $1402.87 as per bill
for extras, making a total OF $4580.l2
ands4. ,af5s So, .z..s .~
WHEREAS, the said contractor,
]. M. Hinderman, has heretofore
and on the 18th day of May, 1920,
filed with the County Auditor OF
Brown County, an assignment OF
proceeds to be to him allowed on
account of said contract: to the State
Bank of Gibbon, Minnesota, in the
sum and amount of $3572.00;, with
interest at, the rate .of. 8. per. cent per
annum from December 10, 1919;
and
WHEREAS, the said contractor,
J.. M. Hindermann, has heretofore
and on the 9th day Of September,
1920, filed with the County Auditor
of Brown County an assignment
of proceeds to be to him allowed on
account of said contract to the St
Paul Foundry Company, of st,
Paul, Minneaota, in the amount o1
$1OO7.0 with interest from January
1, 1920, at the rate Of z 1-2 per cent
for materials furnished said. con
tractor for said bridge construction
and, ~
WHEREAS, the said contractor
j. M. Hinderman, has, heretofore
and under date Of October 2Srd
1920, filed with the County Auditor
of Brown. County an assignments o.
proceeds to be allowed to him. or
account of said contract to the Mid
land Lumber & Coal Company q
Fairfax, Minnesota, in, the amount
of ~$1158.40., for materials furnished