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11to2~-2-iSItQi i IXREPORTOf the Cwntnitlee appointed to inrealigo i the affairs of the building of the Cop - j tol, at Mdtxon.The Committee selected under a joii t r .‘solution of the Cout?ciI and House of Uc. p:eseolativcs, lo investigate the proccci -it gs of Commissioners appointed to stipelt; -it tend the: count ruction of the Public.•iiuillt;s-ir gs at Madison, respectfully report—That in nursuauco ol llie duties ussd-me IAt *il em, the committee on the eleven! ii in. slant, addressed a. letter to Joint F. OWei . a. id A, A. Bird, two of tSie com mission or s j' i3 en at Madison, of which the following i; ■ j a copy:“Gent,:—Under n joint resolution c\ tl e Council and House uf Represents live.'. tie undersigned have Wen appointed ;t ■ fta1rtcVVcommittee to investigate the proceeding ; of your board, in ralmion to the erect-on c‘ tl e public buildings at Madison, kikI w -Iherefore request you to furnish us at . meeting to be ueld at the Council Clmmbe •ic‘morrow ©'’(suing, fii-st with a iktoile-st lie merit of all the expenditures from tin ivtnmcnceinent of your duties, lo the peri olt;l, when the contract for the completio.: !c of'said buddings'was nmdo with Jamc T Morrison, loguthor with vouchers show in-the amount, and to whom payments wci rr tide:2d. The several proposals made fur tin election of said buildings, mid the emit rnc. entered jk with James Morrison, or rs:r o’her person. for furnishing ofor the construction of the buildings.”On the I2ih instant, A.'A. Bird, urn: o the commissioners, presented to i!j« com in it tee a written statement of the procetni in 'gs of the board, which is herewith submilled, and roertied A. 1.1. and C. The ' .V' si ucment was by him .sworn to, on the 2ih j (' ill rteut, its will appear in document marina j |Qi:de1eHrry-jj.'.i17- Yfy~w ~l~ rvfc I enlt;lv- - W*-• 1lfTr ttvmitn*-—«-rn^mm.m»nn.ifPv.O't! lt;1r\tiii!csiv«wVciioifdVUsiy7nhifmr-«ifp-I.H7mimproved Doc. 3d, 1530, it appears tlmtheir duties were so plainly end clearly do fined, that it Keetiut luirdly possible the;-could have I ecu misunderstood. The 3« sictioil of the act referred to, reads as !o) lo wsj:“That there shall be three commissionei s elected by joint ballot of the Connedcud House of lieproseutives, whoso citifyit shall be to cuusu the necessary pubi;«-build mgs to be erected at the said town u ’IV udison, for the accommodation pf ih'Assembly und other officers of the Territt rial Government. The said commission»•eis. ora majority of them, shall agree upoi a plan of such building*, nnd shall issm poposals, giving clue notice I hereof, am ’contract for the erection of said building-without delay/’It appears that the first meeting of thorn missiotiers was held at Minora! Foil:-. May 4, 1837, near six months after 1 hei • a rpoiptment,’ur .which meeting Mensrs loty luni O’Neil, only, wore present, an I v ho made an order, of which the follow! n.: if a copy :*4 At a meeting of the lioard of commit s oners appointed to superintend the con « ruction of I be public buildings »t Mnrii sun, held at Mineral Point on the* 4ili da 1 of Muy, 1837, it was ordered that A, A.I ii d be acting commissioner to superintend the construction of said buildings, ;n Ithat ho be authorised to obtain by pm. chase or otherwise, the materials require I Inr the same, and to employ such median-ii.s and laoorers, and do whatever else i lt;rtquisite to construct said buildings will • out delay, and that his drafs on the from . urcr, J. T. Do'v, for the amount of th • sirne, nut exceeding twenty ihousand do -Ikch in amount, bo paid by the tr» nsnrc ,Qud also that he render lo the commi :siov -r rs a monthly account of his expenses an I engage incuts.”From fin examination of this order i \ 'ill be seen, that the commissioners in^te:. 3 cf entering upon the discharge of their di . tea agreeably, to the requirements of t.l:3 5 iw unde*1 which the hoard were create* , Brjd in which thoir dmie« were plain! ^1*1narked oet, boldly nssimicd the power lt;f | b purchasing matt*rials, employing mechai..» iis and laborers, and proceeding in (I: j lt;instruction of the buildings on Iheir ow » rceoutjf. The acting commissioner in tl riionth of May, 1837, commenced opor; -t:m;B at Madison, having previously eng -lt;;ed n numlwr of mechanics, purchas* d provisiona, Acc, The construction of tl e tvorfc was continued by him until the man b «»f September following, when n notice Or proposal* was issued fur the first time, at d bids were received from tho following n t-nod persons:’ William A. Kellogg, $3«,800 00Coraelitu Van Buren andothers, 47,670 45Wiiliam Payne, 42,500 00, Neither of the fBrfgoing bids wer« a j*:ept»a by the comwwaiow w» and the wn kceotoned by them Apnl 25th, i«Se; In' the iiwnn Iircte, however, tl « mnwtwhjosft bad % report to t *legwlofthiy wfeiie m **»J* *?iniaS-ebwiienee ton rsMfeiMHiao of that t •*ritiot'.VrPJSlt;1nIiiiieI(
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Wisconsin Enquirer
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Apr 20, 1839
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