Bear Creek Town

Bear Creek Town

Townships 24 and 25, Range 14, and Township 24, Range 15, were set off into a town by the name of Bear Creek ; the first election to be held at the house of Welcome Hyde.

Special Meeting At Weyauwega

A committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the Board in the County difficulties. The committee reported the following resolutions, which were adopted :

''Resolved, That, in the opinion of the Board of Supervisors of Waupaca County, Weyauwega is in law the County seat of Waupaca County, having been so declared by the Board of Supervisors after canvassing the votes given on the question of County seat, at the place of meeting of said

Board of Supervisors, and that it is in fact the County seat, having received a majority of the votes given on the question of removal of the County seat.

^^ Resolved, That said Board represent that at the meeting of the County Board of Supervisors of the County of Waupaca, in the fall of 1854, every tov^m comprised in the County of Waupaca was represented, except the Town of Farmington ; and at said meeting of the Board of Supervisors, among other things, Mellen Chamberlain v^as removed from the office of Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, and John Fordyce elected in his place ; that the Towns of lola and St. Lawrence were organized ; and that the Board adjourned its next annual meeting at Mukwa, after levying the taxes for the County. That the Towns of Lind, Dayton, Farmington, and Waupaca at that time refused to pay their taxes, but have since levied the taxes as directed by the County Board, at aforesaid meeting in November, 1854; and that said Board did, also, at said meeting in November, 1854, declare Mukwa to be the County seat of Waupaca County, after the votes on the question of County seat had been canvassed. That the west part of this County, consisting of the Towns of Dayton, Farmington, and Waupaca, have acquiesced in the action of the Board, as aforesaid, by levying their taxes as directed by the Board as aforesaid in November, 1854, and giving the Supervisors from the

Towns of lolaaiid St. Lawrence seats in the Board that assembled at Wanpaca in 1855. And we, the Board of Supervisors, draw this conclusion, - that admitting a part of the acts of the Board of Supervisors in November, 1854, admits the whole ; and admitting the Supervisors for the Towns of lola and St. Lawrence to seats in the Board, admits John Fordyce to have been legally the Clerk of this Board. And we further state that the said John Fordyce, Clerk, at the County seat, the place fixed upon the year before for the meeting of the Board, after canvassing the votes given on the question of removal of the County seat, declared Weyauwega to have received the majority of all votes given on the question of removal of the County seat to Weyauwega, at the election in November, 1855; and further state that the above conclusions are arrived at after a careful investigation of the previous proceedings of the County Board, and of the election held in November, 1855.

^^ Resolved, That the Judge of the Circuit Court be directed to hold the next term of the Circuit Court, for this County, at the Village of Weyauwega; and that La Dow's Hall be the Court House ; that the Sheriff, Clerk of the Court, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Register of Deeds, and other County officers required to hold their offices at the County seat, are hereby directed and ordered to hold their offices at the Village of Wey- auwega, the County seat of Waupaca County. ''Resolved, That the Board find, from an investigation of the returns of the election in November, 1855, that the vote on the question of removal of County seat showed a majority of 53 in favor of the removal of the County seat to Wey auwega."