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4,160
22,026
9.835
Pierce.
738.082
3,173.401
13,950
73,675
25,115
1,000
22,047
Portage
564,079
1,592.018
2,156,097
25,916
42,470
70,400
900
815,250
2,418,248
8,071.811
10,490,059
22,700
24,625
236,000
250,975
120,950
1.908,386
2.520,557
525
50,000
242,650
751,950
34.650
1,107,250
St. Croix
816,768
3,110.445
3.927,218
11,400
41,370
68.720
5,850
217,340
Sauk.
1,364,772
4,036.813
5,401,585
9.000
87,670
22,500
1,150
113.120
Shewano
121.267
685,917
14,925
Sheboygan.
1,903,861
7,096,170
10,725
2,800
26,300
8,300
1.300
26,050
Walworth
3.187.722
10,559.519
13,717,241
70,200
150,200
129,310
180.000
140.000
670.710
Washington ..
1.062,347
4,927,634
7,500
500
218,760
2,300
2.325
Waushara
343,509
1.343.029
1,686 538
21,350
21,080
22,524
Winnebago
3,081,308
9,810,290
12,891.598
6,380
29,495
36,860
84,780
1,550
159,065
Wood.
251,669
598,920
850,589
1,500
27.000
2,720
7,740
38.960
Total
$274,417.873
$351,780.354
82,003,636
2,735,817
4,774,828
7,487,627
1,662,388
18,524,196
Door
135.107
659,650
794.757
7,029
200
22 638
Dunn ...
1,052.300
1,875,148
2,927,448
9,541.996
52.505
197.405
109,405
2,000
32,245
170,020
Green Lake.
3,485.819
4.275,555
23,840
15.075
237.915
402.300
Jefferson ..
1.753,985
7,896.833
9,650,818
12,600
Juneau .. .
660,125
1,607,245
2,267,370
19,280
51,800
6.275
123,825
La Crosse.
1,336,271
4.015.568
5.351,839
31,000
3.500
9,640
Manitowoc
1,141.320
5,290,599
6.431.923
Marathon ...
335,078 326.668
1.033.967
1,360,635
5.680
8,785
12,080
76,720
524,580
381,784
1,121,599
1,359.166
10,910
5,272
5,735
147,686
Richland. Rock ..
4,462,048
13,931,410
18,393,458
28.000
4,125
123.895
55,830
194,775
Taylor.
53,812
816,421
380,800
Treinpealeau. .
840,378
1.904.988
2.745.366
350
2,000
Vernon.
924,835
2,288,420
3,213,255
1,500
5.989,981
15,057.623
700
Waupaca.
480.837
1.826,908
2,307.745
250
34.940
120,670
60,033
188,213
Waukesha ...
3,165,501
11,892.119
807,184
2,000
7.211
5,714
336,400
41,600
775
35.725
Marquette.
5,257,555
Milwaukeo
Monroe
114,820
Oconto ...
196.090
Ozankee Pepin
2,435,319
Polk ..
237,567
8,000
Racine.
612,171
38,440
789.736
4,348.452
13,461,111
45.800
359,390
89,800
252.987
296 305
Dodge
2,446.793
11,014,318
Fond du Lac .. Grant ..
2,502,795
7,039,201
1,966,599
500
88.070
Chippewa
965,624
4.359,245
5,34,869
184.875
14,393
13,220
73
60,174
699.357
428 004
3,200
3,200
384.520
2,525
264,043
400
254.828
2,803,688
114.740
9.000,031
870,233
2.325
200
220,150
34,410
74.225
1,200
67,954
Co., town, |School, col- Church and
$ 21,158
125
125
326.638
4,500
38,100
37.915
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STATISTICS OF WISCONSIN.
ACREAGE OF PRINCIPAL CROPS
GROWN IN 1876.
NUMBER OF ACRES.
COUNTIES.
Wheat.
Corn.
Oats.
Barley.
Rye.
llops.
Tobacco.
Flax-seed.
Adams.
5,146
11,456
5,353
83
8,488
660
Ashland.
5
26
8-1
Barron.
4,070%
639%
3,477%
759%
Bayfield
Brown.
16,384
13,923
5.732
5,012
5,254
17%
Buffalo,
48.5076
9,213%
12,573%
2,751
870
91%
Burnett.
1,179
2164
637
5.5
264
Calumet
32.86016
4,583
9,858
4,048%
2314
39
9
Chippewa
10.442
2.734
9.032
1,258
185
10%
Clark
2.457
1,596
2,408
208
95
3
Columbia.
64,472
40,274
24.071
7.694
~ 648
593%
2%
Crawford.
19.054
19,173
10,584
3.91%
1.588
18
15
15
Dane ..
89,253
84,072
67.120
23,499
7,410
317%
2.459%
153%
Dodge.
128,708
29,401%
25.592K
11,463
2.1344
136
S
Door
4,771
35:2
3.391
696
788
Dunn .
27,208
9.671
13,833
1,560
1,156
63
Eau Claire
2' 085
11,765
7.183
1,242
933
11
Fond du Lac ..
81,612
18,20816
20,763
8 554
75416
44
Grant
29,643
98.709
62,054
2,889
3,296
1134
25,217
Green.
4.409
58,168
34,191
66616
3.793%
Green Lake.
37,004
15,608
8,013
1,170
3.455
212
Iowa.
21,676
46,980
34,433
2.609%
1,892
179%
1
10,145
Jackson.
19.953
8,07116
12,18916
1.739
613
711%
Jefferson
33,569
28,379
16,845
8.773
7.611
840
100
6
Kenosha.
4,782
15,815
14,174
1,649
611
8
3,434
Kewaunee
17.702
1,006
10.632
2,164
3,520
La Crosse
38.8+0
10,581
1 249
3,045
3,127
24916
4,4033
61,549
: 5.194
1.273
1.735
13
16,670
Lincoln
262
854
21,4373%
4,299
5.233
3
1
1
Marathon
4,548
355
5,020
670
116
9.517
15.121
4,873
93
10.503
139
11,774
7.1043%
10,2136
5,063
3.074%
65
Monroe,
12,608
12,804
1,769
1,277
390
2,490
$34
357
724
3
8 076
4 761
940%
514
11%
111%
l'epin ,
10.590%
6,924
4,473
613%
563
Pierce
11.187
8,984
8,335
2,851
258
3
10
9,293
4,104
1,842
440
326
15,701%
11,076
1,28414
7.665%
584%
7.88416
1.904%
15,2414
2.238% 2,2
2.212
31%
41
4,285%
Richland.
13,228%
460%
11,606%%
589%
1.770%
499%
2,10534
282
St. Croix.
77,810
5,390
17,541
2,022
173
27.701
33,81636
24.469%
2.1974
6.1644
3.118%
6,485
1,904
4,4083%
205
1, 1 ti0X4
Sheboygan ..
45,959
8,244
16.704
7,519
4,332
Taylor
60%
32
541
3
Trempealeau
53,656
12,106
15,034
2.381%
550
12
Vernon
42,277
2,499
23,055
5,543
633
187
14
9
Walworth.
20,588
15.456
28 225
8,934%%
4.8751
107%
11%
1,169
Washington
53,691
11,613
14,104
6,614
6,002
29
5
3
Waukesha. Waupaca ..
13.516
9,521
7.448
1,060
4,863
295
3
3
Waushara.
19.573
18.726%
8.847
636%
15,416
340
9
Winnebago.
49 999
15,404
13,813
1,427
989
110
Wood
637
958
1,029
2914
372%
14
CZ
Total
1,445.650%
1,025.801%
854,861%
183.030%
175.314%
11,1843%
4,842
62,008%
5
50
#12
20
Manitowoc
4,538%%
Ozaukee ..
2~ 25%
9.473
4,116%
9.430%
15
Polk
3
Portage.
Rock.
12.3844
: 4,04116
60,103
19.424
15.038%%
4
Sauk
Shawano.
34,140
26,318
18.980
1
8,527
7,659
239
1
3.137
1,169
Juneau
11,598%
11,848%
14,272%
445
La Fayette.
Marquette
Milwaukee.
31,631
Oconto.
3,112
Outagamie,
2,44716
9,086%
Racine.
49
13
Douglas.
. .
27
0
15
363
113
3
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
ACREAGE OF PRINCIPAL CROPS
GROWN IN
1876.
NUMBER OF ACRES.
COUNTIES.
Cultivated Grasses.
Potatoes.
Roots.
Apples.
mDVated t'rahberries.
Timber.
Adams.
3,161
6
58
25,040
553
Ashland
241
266
75
Barron.
1,843%
3411
553
281
24,175
Bayfield
100
30
...
5
Buffalo
5,7691%
909%
219
12.739
Burnett.
39
120%
174
552%
57.463
1,733
Chippewa
9.348
425
~8
126.000
Columbia.
32.326
1,918%
104
1.533%%
36
51,879
1,689
Crawford
4.935
2,493
618
2.460
Dane. ..
53.219
3.585
80
4,83012
30
111.463
2.969%
Dodge.
29.552
3,780%
16,254
49,369%
2.489%
Douglas
100
100
10
2
500.000
[>ının.
10,032
989
219
5,414
8
Ean Claire.
41.609
2,701%
611
2,935%.
44.986
1,500
Grant ..
37,792
3.038
2.766
126.116
3,848
Green ..
28,833
1.159
16
5.980%
20,313%
1.037
Green Lake.
13.920
921
5
1,467
45
22,393
566
lowa ..
15,566
1,650%
46
1,987%
51.026
1.515
Jackson
5,316
510
41
100
520
53.880
107
Jefferson
17,407
2,209
94
2.233
2,757%
29.763
30
La Fayette ..
22,719
1,633
26
994
24.037
1,007
Lincoln ..
316
'106
108
689
257.341
7741
Marathon.
5,453
667
138
46
151
20.525
1.073
Milwaukee.
20,557
3.030%
137%
1,934%
1
16,211
113
Monroe. .
14,217
1,520
99
406
4.412
33,756
1,666
Oconto ..
6,170
836
13
19,433
97
Ozankee ..
8,528
1,566%
100
1,266%
1
22,077
1,349
Pepin.
12,974
724
41
11
580
52,150
343
Racine
21,515%
1,548%
4616
16,004
X
28.718%
840
18,924%
1,153%
10%
479
65.394
2,160%
Rock.
57.13214
2,930
122%
3,676
57.587%%
5,416
St. Croix.
14,993
1,176
10
157
3,606
80
Shawano
4,111
548
6414
3,101
80.533
16
Sheboygan
40,123
2,723
133
1,730
68,057
10,738
Taylor.
173
99
34
Trempealeau
18,738
878%
41%.
2796
12.149
250
Vernon
20,197
1,241
140
#49
91,194
1,134
Walworth
15.093
2.183%
554
4.056%
50,021
2.798
Washington
6.513
46.821
9,430
50,095
13%
50 080
16,080
Waukesha.
38,629
3,982
383
4,952
30
42,690
1.529
Wanpaca
13.540
1,695
98
205
185
82.985
610
Waushara.
9,770
1.342
45
836%
1,053
66,510
11%
Winnebago
23.433
1,630
35
1,561
194
25,737
~20
Wood
35
169
400
93,24
Total.
889.0184
123.12016
13.624%
139,891%
17,664%
1.090 226%
76.945%
591
178
Portage.
10.142%
2.016%
128%
60%
Sauk.
25.2324
3,209%
1041
1.054%
88.058%
1.248%
Junean
8,705
1,738
52%
339
Kewaunee ..
5,665
1,487
10
44
37.573
1,174
La Crosse.
11.390
~81
99
239
Manitowoc
32,256%
2,351
Marquette.
3,387
50
1,856
Outagamie.
11,681
51
18%
2.170
19,896
781
Kenosha
29,856
1,060
1,324
Calumet.
13,361
1.017
37
4,000
1,152,000
Brown.
150
Clark
50
252
20
33.774
5,269
Pierce.
182,671
121
Polk
2,642
Richland
20
Fond du Lac.
Clover Seed, Bushels.
ABSTRACT OF LAWS. WISCONSIN.
ELECTORS AND GENERAL ELECTIONS.
SEC. 12. Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upward, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the State for one year next preceding any election, shall be deemed a qualified elector at such election :
1. Citizens of the United States.
2. Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intention to become citizens con- formably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.
3. Persons of Indian blood who have once been declared by law of Congress to be citizens of the United States, any subsequent law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. 4. Civilized persons of Indian descent not members of any tribe. Every person convicted of bribery shall be excluded from the right of suffrage unless restored to civil rights ; and no person who shall have made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of any election at which he shall offer to vote, shall be permitted to vote at such election.
SEC. 13. No elector shall vote except in the town, ward, village or election district in which he actually resides.
SEC. 14. The general election prescribed in the Constitution shall be held in the several towns, wards, villages and election districts on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November in each year, at which time there shall be chosen such Representatives in Congress, Electors of President and Vice President, State officers, and county officers as are by law to be elected in such year.
SEC. 15. All elections shall be held in each town at the place where the last town-meeting was held, or at such other place as shall have been ordered at such last meeting, or as shall have been ordered by the Supervisors when they establish more than one election poll, except that the first election after the organization of a new town shall be held at the place directed in the act or proceeding by which it was organized ; and all elections in villages constituting separate elec- ' tion districts and in the wards of cities, shall be held at the place to be ordered by the Trustees of such village, or the Common Council of such city, at least ten days before such election, un- less a different provision is made in the act incorporating such village or city.
SEC. 16. Whenever it shall become impossible or inconvenient to hold an election at the place designated therefor. the Board of Inspectors, after having assembled at or as near as prac- ticable to such place, and before receiving any votes may adjourn to the nearest convenient place for holding the election, and at such adjourned place shall forthwith procced with the election. Upon adjourning any election as hereinbefore provided, the Board of Inspectors shall cause proc- lamation thereof to be made, and shall station a Constable or some other proper person at the place where the adjournment was made, to notify all electors arriving at such place of adjourn- ment, and the place to which it was made.
264
HISTORY OF WISCONSIN
SEC. 20. A registry of electors shall annually be made :
1. In each ward or election district of every city which, at the last previous census, had a population of three thousand or more.
2. In each ward or election district of every incorporated village in which, by law, sep- arate elections are held ; which village at the last preceding eensus, had a popula- tion of fifteen hundred or more.
3. In every town containing a village which, at said census, had a population of fifteen hundred or more, in which village separate general elections are not by law required to be held.
4. In all towns any part of which shall have been embraced in any part of any city or village in which a registration by this chapter is required.
Such registration shall be made in the manner provided by this chapter. The persons authorized by law to act as Inspectors of Election in each of such towns, wards or election dis- triets shall constitute the Board of Registry therefor.
SEC. 21. The said Inspectors shall have their first meeting on Tuesday, four weeks pre- ceding each general election, at the place where said election is to be held ; and in election districts at which there were polled at the previous general election three hundred votes or less, they shall sit for one day, and in districts at which there were more than three hundred votes polled, they shall have power to sit two days if necessary, for the purpose of making such list. They shall meet at 9 o'clock in the forenoon and hold their meetings open until 8 o'clock in the evening of each day during which they shall so sit. The Clerks appointed by law to act as Clerks of Election shall act as Clerks of the Board of Registry on the day of election only. The proceedings shall be open, and all electors of the district shall be entitled to be heard in relation to corrections or additions to said registry. They shall have the same powers to preserve order which Inspectors of Election have on election days, and in towns vacancies in the Board shall be filled in the same manner that vacancies are filled at elections.
SEC. 22. The said Inspectors at their first meeting, and before doing any business, shall severally take and subscribe the oath of Inspectors at a general election, and said Inspectors shall at their first meeting make a registry of all the electors of their respective districts, placing thereon the full names, alphabetically arranged according to surnames, in one column, and in another the residence by number and name of street or other location, if known. If any elector's residence is at any hotel or public boarding-house the name of the hotel or boarding-house shall be stated in the registry. They shall put thereon the names of all persons residing in their elec- tion district appearing on the poll-list kept at the last preceding general election, and are author- ized to take therefor such poll-list from the office where kept, omitting such as have died or removed from the district, and adding the names of all other persons known to them to be eleet- ors in such district. In case of the formation of a new election district since the last preceding general election, the said Board therein may make such registry from the best means at their command, and may, if necessary, procure therefor certified copies of the last poll-list. They shall complete said registry as far as practicable at their first meeting, and shall make four copies thereof, and certify the original and each copy to be a true list of the electors in their district so far as the same are known to them. One of said copies shall be immediately posted in a conspicuous place in the room in which their meeting was held, and be accessible to any elector for examina- tion or making copies thereof, and one copy shall be retained by each Inspector for revision and correction at the second meeting. They shall within two days after said first meeting file the original registry made by them, and said poll-list in the office of the proper town, city or village clerk, and may, in their discretion, cause ten printed copies of said registry to be made and posted in ton of the most public places of said election district, or may publish the same in a newspaper at an expense not exceeding one eent for each name.
SEC. 23. The Inspectors shall hold their second meeting at the same place designated for holding elections on the Tuesday two weeks preceding the election. They shall meet at 9 o'clock in the forenoon. In election districts having less than three hundred voters, as shown by the
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ABSTRACT OF LAWS.
preliminary registry, the Board shall complete the registry on the same day ; but if there are more than that number of voters, they shall sit two days. They shall remain in session until 8 o'clock in the evening. They shall revise and correct the registry first by erasing the name of any person who shall be proved to their satisfaction by the oaths of two electors of the district to be not entitled to vote thercin at the next ensuing election, unless such person shall appear and if chal- lenged, shall answer the questions and take the oath hereinafter provided ; secondly, by entering thereon the names of every elector entitled to vote in the district at the next election who shall appear before the Board and require it, and state his place of residence, giving street and num- ber. if numbered, or location, as hercinbefore provided, if challenged answer the questions, and take the oaths provided in case of challenge at an election ; but if any person shall refuse to answer all such questions or to take such oath, his name shall not be registered. Any person who is not twenty-one years of age before the date when the registry is required to be corrected, but will be if he lives until the day of election, shall have his name put on the registry if he be other- wise qualified to be an elector. Any elector who did not vote at the previous general election shall be entitled to be registered either at the preliminary or the final registration of electors by appearing before the Board of Registration of his election district and establishing his right to be registered, or, instead of a personal appearance, he may make his application to be registered to the Board in writing. Such application shall state the name and period of continnous resi- dence in the election district and place of residence therein, giving the number and street of the applicant, and, in case the person making the application is of foreign birth, he shall state when he came to the United States and to the State of Wisconsin, and the time and place of declaring his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, and that he is entitled to vote at the election. Upon receiving such application, the Board of Registration shall register the name of such applicant, if it appears to the Board that the applicant is, by his statement, entitled to vote. Such statement shall be made under oath, and shall be preserved by the Board and be filed in the office of the village or city clerk, as the case may be. All city and village clerks shall keep blanks for making the application for registration, as provided by this section. The form shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State. Every person named in this section shall be subject to the same punishment for any false statement or other offense in respect thereto as is provided in case of such false statement or other offense by an elector offering to vote at an election. After such registry shall have been fully completed on the days above mentioned, no name shall be added thereto by any person or upon any pretext. Within three days after the second meeting the said Board shall cause four copies of the registry to be made, each of which shall be certified by them to be a correct registry of the electors of their district, one of which shall be kept by each Inspector for use on election day, and one shall forthwith be filed in the office of the proper town, city or village clerk. All registries shall at all times be open to pub- lic inspection at the office where deposited without charge.
SEC. 24. On election day the Inspectors shall designate two of their number at the opening of the polls, who shall check the names of every elector voting in such district whose name is on the registry. No vote shall be received at any general election in any ward or election district defined in Section 20, if the name of the person offering to vote be not on said registry made at the second meeting as aforesaid, except as hereinafter provided ; but in case any one shall, after the last day for completing such registry, and before such election, become a qualified voter of the district, he shall have the same right to vote therein at such election as if his name had been duly registered, provided he shall, at the time he offers to vote, deliver to the Inspectors his affi- davit, in which he shall state the facts, showing that he has, since the completion of such regis- try, become a qualified elector of such district, and the facts showing that he was not such elector on the day such registry was completed, and shall also deliver to such Inspectors the affi- davits of two frecholders, electors in such election district, corroborating all the material state- ments in his affidavit. In case any person who was a voter at the last previous general election shall not be registered, such person shall be entitled to vote on making affidavit that he was enti- tled to vote at the previous election. and that he has not become disqualified by reason of removal
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from the election district or otherwise, since that election, which affidavit shall also be corrobo- rated by the affidavits of two freeholders, as is provided for other non-registered voters. No one freeholder shall be competent to make at any one election corroborating affidavits for more than three voters. All of said affidavits shall be sworn to before some officer authorized by the laws of this State to take depositions. The Inspectors shall keep a list of the names and residence of the electors voting whose names are not on said completed registry, and attach said list to the registry and return it, together with all such affidavits, to the proper town, city or village clerk. No compensation shall be paid or received for taking or certifying any such affidavits. On the day following the election, one of said poll-lists and one copy of the registry so kept and checked shall be attached together and filed in the office of the proper town, city or village clerk, and the other of said poll-lists and copy of the registry so kept and checked shall be returned to the County Clerk with the returns of the election. Such Inspectors shall give notice by advertisement in a newspaper printed in the city, village or town where such registration was made, of the registry, and shall include in such notice all additions to and omissions from the preliminary list, and shall also state where the election is to be held. In case there be no newspaper printed in such city, village or town, such notice shall be given by posting copies thereof in three or more public places in each ward or election district in such city, village or town. For publication of such notice in any such newspaper the publisher thereof shall be entitled to the same compensation per folio as is prescribed for publishing other legal notices.
COMMON SCHOOLS.
SEC. 413. The formation of any school district shall be by written order of the Town Board, describing the territory embraced in the same, to be filed with the Town Clerk within twenty days after the making thereof. The Supervisors shall deliver to a taxable inhabitant of the district their notice thereof in writing, describing its boundaries, and appointing a time and place for the first district meeting, and shall therein direct such inhabitant to notify every quali- fied voter of the district, either personally or by leaving a written notice at his place of resi- dence, of the time and place of such meeting, at least five days before the time appointed therefor, and said inhabitant shall notify the voters of such district accordingly, and indorse thereon a return containing the names of all persons thus notified, and said notice and return shall be recorded as a part of the record of the first meeting in such district.
SEC. 414. In case such notice shall not be given, or the inhabitants of a district shall neg- lect or refuse to assemble and form a district meeting when so notified, or in case any school dis- trict having been formed or organized shall afterward be disorganized, so that no competent authority shall exist therein to call a special district meeting, in the manner hereinafter pro- vided, notice shall be given by the Town Board, and served in the manner prescribed in the pre- ceding section. Whenever a district meeting shall be called as prescribed in this and the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the electors of the district to assemble at the time and place so directed.
SEC. 415. Whenever it shall be necessary to form a district from two or more adjoining towns, the Town Boards of such towns shall meet together and form such districts by their writ- ten order, describing the territory embraced in such district, signed by at least two of the Super- visors of each town; and shall file one such order with the Town Clerk of each town, and deliver the notice of formation to a taxable inhabitant of such distriet, and cause the same to be served and returned in the time and manner hereinbefore prescribed ; and any such district may be altered only by the joint action of the Town Boards of such towns in the same manner that other districts are altered.
SEC. 416. Every school district shall be deemed duly organized when any two of the offi- cers elected at the first legal meeting thereof shall have consented to serve in the offices to which they have been respectively elected, by a written acceptance thereof filed with the clerk of the first meeting, and recorded in the minutes thereof; and every school district shall be considered
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