Each clerk's general record book typically contains minutes of annual meetings with election results, oaths, and bonds of office; proceedings of the Town Board of Supervisors and intermittent town meetings; register of town officers; petitions, resolutions, and ordinances; saloon licenses granted; descriptions of school boundaries; taxes levied on the town; statements of accounts, and treasurers' reports. Also included until 1897 are the appointment of path masters in each road district to oversee work approved by the Town Board.
Each record book is typically divided into the following sections:
Annual Meetings consist mainly of the results of elections, with total votes for each candidate for all offices and, in some years, the oaths of office and bonds. Included, until 1897, are appointments of path masters in each road district to oversee work approved by the Town Board. Included, occasionally, are proposals to change the method by which the path masters were appointed and the amount of their compensation.
A Register of Town Officers, (in volume three, 1903-1907), includes names, place of residence, and terms of service.
Proceedings of the Town Board of Supervisors and occasional Town Meetings include petitions and resolutions that are mainly for the laying out of roads. Few ordinances are included and they deal primarily with the control and fencing of cattle, removal of winter fencing, and snow removal.
Road and Highway Records have informational value in their documentation of how the town constructed a transportation infrastructure as it emerged from an era when roads were merely scraped. Orders for new road construction include a description of the route and the compensation paid to property owners for loss of land. Supervisors' instructions to the path masters state what work is to be done, on whose land, and how much labor, based on a given number of hours per acreage owned, is to be contributed by landholders. Instructions also frequently include a statement about the cash road tax levied for each district.
School District Boundaries are described in 1876, 1883, 1886, 1892, 1896, and in 1918. Included in volume three is an undated plat map of school districts.
Taxes and Financial records include statements of taxes collected and those to be levied. The treasurers' reports state the total revenue for the reporting period and to whom it was paid out. Statements of accounts document how the town organized its funds and amounts paid out from them.
Also included in this series is a cancellation record, 1892-1904, listing the number of the order, date of redemption, amount drawn for whom and purpose. For some time periods it duplicates information found in the clerk's record books.
Records, 1959-1966, consist of a small file of the clerk's incoming correspondence; orders consolidating rural school districts into larger joint districts and consolidation with Green Bay Schools; petitions from landowners for roadwork; and annual reports of town finances.
The clerk's correspondence, 1961-1966 concerns civil defense and fire protection, farm statistics; the orders to dissolve and consolidate rural school districts into larger joint districts and the Green Bay Public Schools, 1961-1965, document the rapidity of these changes to the organization of town schools; Annual Financial Reports, 1959-1964, lists all account expenditure, to whom paid, the amounts of county, state and utility tax revenue, and highway and bridge fund aid paid to the town.
