HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY.4 
 
dered that the said Joseph Payne be licensed 
and permitted to keep a tavern in the said house 
for the term of twelve months from this date 
by paying into the county treasury the sum of 
$5 therefor. 
August 4, 1840. 
WHEREAS, Proposals were ordered to be re- 
ceived, and have been received by the clerk of 
this board, for the purpose of erecting a two- 
story building in the town of Monroe, for the 
purpose of a temporary court house, be ii-or- 
dered that the proposals of James Campbell 
and J. Sutherland be accepted by this board, 
and that they give bond in the penal sum of $900 
for the faithful performance of said contract to 
the board of commissioners of the county of 
,Green, agreeable to the tenor and effect of said 
proposats on file, to be completed on or before 
the 1st day of December, 1840. 
August Extra Session, 1840. 
Ordered, That the clerk of this board trans- 
mit to the "editors of the Wisconsin Enquirer 
an advertisement that there will be a public 
sale of lots in the town of Monroe, on the 8th 
day of October next, with instructions to the 
publisher of said Wisconsin En; quireer ( a paper 
printed in Madison, Wis. Ter.,) to give the 
said advertisement an insertion for four weeks 
successively. 
Monday, October 5, 1840. 
Ordered, That William Rittenhouse be and is 
hereby appointed clerk of this board. 
October 8, 1840. 
WHEREAS, A deed was executed to Jacob Ly 
Brand by this board for six building lots in the 
town of Monroe and presented to him by the 
sheriff of Green county in pursuance of an 
order of this board at the July session, 1840; 
and, 
WHEREAS, The said Jacob Ly Brand refused 
to accept said deed and chose other six lots in 
said town to-wit: lots number one (1), twenty- 
three (23), twenty-four (24) and twenty-five (25), 
being lots on the land donated-to Green county 
hy Ja'cob Ly Brand-; also lot number three (3) 
 
on the land donated to said county by William 
C. Russell; also lot number seven (7) on the 
land donated by the said Jacob Ly Brand and 
facing on the public square in said town. 
Ordered, That a deed of conveyance be ex- 
ecuted to the said Jacob Ly Brand by this 
board on the part of Green county, for the afore- 
said described lots and tendered to the said 
Jacob Ly Brand by the sheriff, who is required 
to make return thereof forthwith to this board, 
The sheriff returned into court the following 
return to-wit: "I hereby certify that I, this 8th 
day of October, 1840, presented a deed from 
Green county to Jacob Ly Brand for certain 
lots in the town of Monroe, and the said Jacob 
Ly Brand accepted the'same." 
[Signed,]       J. W. DENISTON, Sheriff. 
November 4, 1840. 
WHEREAS, James Campbell and Andrew J. 
Sutherland are bound to the board of commis- 
sioners of the county of Green by bond dated 
Aug. 4, 1840, to erect a two-story building" for 
the purpose of a court house in the town of 
Monroe, and in the opinion of the court the con- 
dition of thel said bond has been complied with; 
it is 
Ordered, By this court that the said house and 
job of work be received and that order be made 
out to them for the balance due them on said 
contract amounting to $150.30. 
Ordered, That Frederick Betner be employed 
by this board to furnish paints and oil, and to 
paint the court house in the town of Monroe, ac- 
cording to his proposals now on file in the clerk's 
office. 
December 17, 1840. 
The board of county commissioners of the 
county of Iowa, in the Territory of Wisconsin, 
by their attorney, Robert C. Hoard, produced to 
this board, a certified statement of debts against 
said Iowa county, up to March 4, 1837, in which 
said Iowa county demands of the said county 
of Green, her proportion-able part thereof, un- 
der the act of the legislature to drganize the 
 
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