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ARTICLE VII.
In suits at common law, when the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.
ARTICLE VIII.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual pun- ishments inflicted.
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
ARTICLE IX.
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or dis- parage others retained by the people.
ARTICLE X.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.
ARTICLE XI.
The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State.
ARTICLE XII.
The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; distinct ballots shall be made for President and Vice President, and distinct lists made of such ballots and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify and transmit sealed to the seat of government, addressed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for Presi- dent shall be President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; if no person have such majority, then from those having the highest numbers, not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose imme- diately by ballot the President. But, in choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by States, each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or mem- bers from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. If, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, the House of Representatives shall not choose a President before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of death or disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
ARTICLE XIII.
SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SEC. 3. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
ARTICLE XIV.
SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, or subject to the juris- diction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without
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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the States according to population, counting the whole number of persons in cach State, including Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote is denied to any of the male inhabitants of a State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty- one years of age in such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall hold any office under the United States or under any State, who having previously, as an officer of the United States of any State, taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two- thirds of each House, remove such disability.
SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, including pensions and bounties, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave ; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
SEC. 5. Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
ARTICLE XV.
SECTION 1. The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF COUNTIES AND CITIES
WITH GUBERNATORIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL VOTES.
Note .- The Republican or Democratie majority in each county is given as between Smith and Mallory. Green- back majority is only given when the vote for Allis exceeds the others, and is taken from the highest vote.
GOVERNOR 1877.
PRESIDENT. 1876.
Smith.
Mallory
Allis.
Maj.
Hayes.
Tilden.
Maj.
Adams.
580
233
116
R.
347
981
442
R. 539
Ashland.
86|
163
D.
77
109
189
D
80
Barron
459
203
53
R.
256
644
257
R.
387
Bayfield.
40
34
2
R.
6
86
74
R. 12
Brown.
1387
1740
1015
D.
353
2755
3647
D.
892
Buffalo
1075
810
76
R.
265
1186
1162
R.
24
Burnett
336
24
R.
312
285
28
R.
257
Calumet
450
1130
389
D.
680
1012
2145
D. 1133
Chippewa
685
693
589
D.
18
1596
1774
R.
595
Columbia.
2048
1597
118
451
3532
2493
R. 1039
Crawford
806
1008
146
D).
202
1355
1604
D. 249
Dane
3613
3903
614
1).
290
5435
5726
D. 291
Dodge.
2333
4267
381
D. 1934
3236
6361
D. 3125
Door
477
126
283
R.
351
1095
596
R. 499
Douglas
21
28
D.
7
42
67
D.
25
Dunn
1174
407
412
R.
767
2033
894
R. 1139
Eau Claire.
1208
805
597
R.
403
2266
1785
R. 481
Fond du Lac
3086
3414
1249
D.
328
4845
5660 D. 815
Grant ...
2620
1938
1037
R.
682
4723
3198
R. 1525
Green
1823
849
580
R.
974
2601
1735
R. 866
Green Lake.
879
896
215
D.
17
1739
1514 R. 225
lowa ..
1461
1175
1021
R.
286
2651
2348 R.
303
Jackson.
802
391
521
R.
411
1507
718, R.
789
Jefferson
1917
2418
296
D.
201
2874
4134 D. 1260
Juneau
1045
883
463
R.
162
1714
1432 R.
178
Kewaunee
247
558
20
D.
311
561
1654 D. 1093
La Crosse.
1968
1115
524
R.
853
2644
2481| R.
163
La Fayette
1409
1300
269
R.
109
2424
2299 R.
125
Lincoln
27
15
169
G.
142
71
174 D.
103
Manitowoc.
1365
1951
98
D.
586
2700
3908
D. 1208
Marathon
301
755
746
D.
454
668
1796
D. 1128
Marquette.
447
730
76
D.
283
697
1112 D. 415
Milwaukee
5843
6388
1228
D.
545
9981
12026
D. 2045
Monroe
1102
1096
1019
R.
6
2558
2030
R. 528
Oconto.
1059
764
157
R
295
1813
1174
R. 639
Outagamie.
777
2005
992
D. 1228
1859
3608
D. 1749
Ozaukee.
437
1579
17
D. 1142
583
5480
D. 1897
Pepin
521
171
123
R.
350
836
394
R. 447
Pierce.
1523
545
408
IL.
978
2185
985
R. 1152
Polk ..
916
363
60
R.
553
1019
362
R. 650
Portage
1080
917
728
R.
163.
1855
1794
R. 61
Racine.
2304
1906
112| R.
398.
3560
2880] R.
680
Clark ..
449
153
816
G.
367
1255
660
D. 178
1458; R. 256
Kenosha.
938
907
51
R.
31
1610
COUNTIES.
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GUBERNATORIAL AND PRESIDENTIAL VOTES-1877-1876-Continued.
COUNTIES-Continued.
Smith.
Mallory.
Allis.
Maj.
Hayes.
Tilden.
Maj.
Richland
1201
729
705
R.
472
2038
1591
R. 447
Rock
3375
1620
781
R. 1755
5755
2814
R. 2893
St. Croix
1558
1489
93
R.
70
1775
1736
R. 39
Sauk
1826
922
574
R.
904
3395
2201
R. 1194
Shawano
269
605
92
D.
336
582
873
D.
291
Sheboygan.
1598
1737
750
D.
139
3224
3633
D.
409
Taylor.
195
254
53
D.
59
240
246
D.
6
Trempealeau
2483
731
176
R. 1452
2360
790
R. 1570
Vernon
1678
416
846
R. 1262
2764
1117
R. 1647
Walworth
2904
1374
160
R. 1530
4212
1970
R. 2242
Washington
994
2187
187
D. 1993
1321
3047
D. 1726
Waukesha
2484
2388
276
R.
96
3129
3335
D. 206
Waupaca
1473
990
772
R.
483
2642
1592
R. 1050
Waushara
1282
257
377
R. 1025
2080
5481
R. 1532
Winnebago
2068
2238
1887
D.
170
5092
4426
R. 666
Wood.
247
196
601
G
354
658
745
D.
87
CITIES.
Appleton.
231
522
201
D.
291
549
911
D. 362
Beaver Dam
320
361
6
41
357
465
D. 108
Beloit.
377
109
240
R.
268
745
627
R.
118
Berlin
219
197
36
R.
22
456
312
R. 144
Buffalo
25
17
R.
8
14
31
D. 17
Centralia.
16
5
97
G.
81
64
93
D.
29
Chilton.
31
128
33
D.
97
Chippewa Falls.
229
294
143
D.
65
475
572
D.
97
Columbus
210
123
3
R.
87
254
212
R. 42
Eau Claire.
620
459
250
R.
161
1205
10131 R.
189
Fond du Lac ..
862
884
520
D.
22
1382
1542
D.
160
Fort Howard.
150
85
195
G.
45
669
288
R.
81
Grand Rapids
50
42
110
G.
60
121
191
D.
70
Green Bay
226
207
3
R.
19
250
224
R.
26
Janesville.
771
605
31
R. 166
1036
848
R.
188
Kenosha.
281
314
42
D.
33
514
544
D.
30
La Crosse.
712
671
351
R
41
1085
1549
D. 464
Madison.
740
1057
13
D.
317
834|
1252
D. 418
Manitowoc
349
284
17
R.
61
660
512
R. 148
Menasha.
146
311
67
D.
165
291
344
D.
53
Milwaukee.
4816
5027
1050
D.
211
8218
9625
D. 1407
Mineral Point
260
249
21
R.
11
348
324
R.
24
Neenah
115
146
376
G.
230
511
3851
R.
126
New London
84
125
118
D.
41
206
208
D.
2
Oconomowoc
172
167
24
R.
5
222
238
D. 16
Oconto.
270
311
6
D.
41
399
506
D. 107
Oshkosh.
724
954
375
D.
230
1496
1910
D. 414
Plymouth
69
127
28
D.
58
Portage
245
405
7
D.
160
366
532
D. 166
Prairie du Chien
155
267
D.
112
215
377
162
Prescott ..
87
61
10
R.
26
143
108
R. 35
Racine.
1052
921
82
R.
131
1672
1324
R. 348
Ripon.
270
239
33
R.
31
397
333
R.
64
Shawano
55
73
13
=
18
87
83
R.
4
Sheboygan.
248
440
68
1).
192
575
873
D. 298
Stevens Point
252
270
145
D.
18
423
563
D. 140
Watertown
232
687
164
445
372
1295
D 923
Waupaca.
210
49
20
R.
161
280
52
R. 228
Wausau.
76
170
300
G.
1300
210
595 D.
385
432
333
181
R.
99
696
647
R.
49
Hudson.
GOVERNOR. 1877.
PRESIDENT. 1876.
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POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Area in sonare Miles.
POPULATION.
Miles R. R. 1872.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Area in square Miles.
POPULATION.
Miles® R. R. 1872.
States.
50,722
996,992
1,671
Pennsylvania.
46,000
3,521,791
5,113
Arkansas ..
52,198
484.471
25
Rhode Island.
1,306
217.353
258,239
136
California.
188.981
560,247
1,013
South Carolina ..
29,385
705,606
925,145
1.201
Connecticut.
4.674
537,454
820
Tennessee.
45,600
1,258,520
1,520
Delaware.
2,120
125,015
Texas
237,504
818.579
865
Florida ..
59,268
187,748
466
Vermont
10,212
330,551
675
58,000 1,184,109
2.108
Virginia.
40,904
1,225,163
1,490
West Virginia ..
23,000
442,014
485
Indiana ..
33,809 1,680,637
Wisconsin
53,924
1,054,670
1,236,729
1.725
lowa ..
55,045 1,191.792|
1.350,544 3.160
T'otal States
1,950,171 38,113,253
59,587
Kentucky
37,600 1,321,011
1,123
Lonisiana
41,346
726,915
857,039
539
Maine ..
31,776
626,915
871
Arizona
113,916
9,658
Maryland
11,184
780,894
820
Colorado ..
104,500
39,864
392
Massachusetts ..
7,800 1,457,351 1,651,912
1,606
Dist. of Columbia.
60
131,700
Minnesota
83.531
439.706
598,429
1,612
Idaho.
90.932
14,999
Mississippi.
47,156
827.922
Montana
143,776
20,595|
Missouri ..
65.350 1,721,295
2,580
New Mexico
121,201
91,874
375
Nevada ...
112,090
42,491
52,540
593
Washington.
69,944
23.955
Wyoming
93.107
9,118
498
New Jersey
8,320
906,096 1,026,502 1,265
New York
47,000 4.382,759 4,705,208
4,470 1
Total Territories.
965,032
442,730
1,265
North Carolina ..
50,704 1,071,361
1,190
Ohio ..
39.964 2.665,260
3,740
Oregon
95,244
90,923
159
Aggregate of U. S .. 2,915,203 38,555,983
60,85 ?
* Last Census of Michigan taken in 1874.
* Included in the Railroad Mileage of Marylar d.
PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ; POPULATION AND AREA.
COUNTRIES.
Population.
Date of Census.
Aren in Square Miles.
Inhabitants to Square Mile.
CAPITALS.
Population.
China .
446.500,000
1871
3,741,846
119.3
Pekin.
1,648,800
British Empire ..
226,817,108
1871
4,677,482
48.6
London ..
3,251,800
Russia ...
81,925,400
1821
8,003,778
10.2
St. Petersburg
667,000
United States with Alaska.
38,925,600
1870
2,603,884
7.78
Washington
109,199
France ..
36,469.800
1866
204,091
178.7
Paris ..
1,825,300
Anstria and Hungary
35,904,400
1869
240.348
149.4
Vienna
833,900
Japan.
34,785.300
1871
149,399
232.8
Veddo ..
1,554,900
Great Britain and Ireland
31,817,100
1871
121.315
262.3
London.
3,251,800
German Empire.
29,906,092
1871
160,207
187.
Berlin
825,400
Italy
27,439,921
1871
118,847
230.9
Rolle
244,484
Spain
16,642,000
1867
195 775
85.
Madrid
332,000
Turkey
16.463,000
672.621
24.4
Constantinople
1,075,000
Mexico.
9,173,000
1869
761,526
Mexico
210.300
Sweden and Norway
5,921,500
1870
292.871
20.
Stockholm
136,900
Persia.
5.000,000
1870
635,964
7.8
Teheran.
120,000
Belgium
5,021,300
1869
11,373
441.5
Brussels
314,100
Bavaria.
4,861,400
1871
29,292
265.9
Munich
169,500
Portugal
3.995,200
34,494
115.8
Lisbon.
224,063
Holland
3,688,300
12,680
Hague ..
90,100
ew Grenada
3,000,000
1870
357,157
Bogota.
45,000
Chili .
2,000,000
1869
132.616
Santiago.
115,400
Switzerland ..
2,669,100
1870
15,992
166.9
Berne.
36,000
Peru
2.500,000
1871
471,838
5.3
Lima.
160,100
Bolivia.
2,000,000
497,321
4.
Chuquisaca.,
25,000
Argentine Republic
1,812,000
1869
871,848
Buenos Ayres.
177.800
Wurtemburg
1,818,500
1871
7,533
Stuttgart
91,600
Denmark.
1,784.700
1870
14.753
Copenhagen ..
162,042
Venezuela.
1,500,000
368,238
Caraccas
47,000
Baden ..
1,461,400
1871
5,912
247.
CarIsrnhe
36,600
Greece. .
1,457.900
1870
19,353
75.3
Athens.
43,400
1.180,000
1871
40,879
28.9
40,000
1,300,000
218,928
5.9
70,000
Ilesse
823,138
2.969
277.
Darmstadt
30,000
Liberia
718,000
18/1
9,576
74.9
3,000
San Salvador ..
600,000
1871
7,335
81.8
Sal Salvador
15,000
Hayti.
572,000
10,205
56.
Port an l'rince
20,000
Nicaragua.
350.000
18/1
58,171
6.
Managua
10,000
Uruguay.
300,000
1871
66,722
6.5
Monte Video
44,500
Honduras
350,000
1871
47.092
~. 4
Comayagua
12.000
San Domingo
136,000
17,827
7.6
San Domingo.
20.000
Costa Rica.
165,000
1870
21.505
7.7
San Jose ..
2,000
Hawalt.
62.950
7.633
80.
Honolulu.
7,633
Georgia ..
55,410 2,539,891
5,904
Kansas.
81,318
364,399
528,349
1,760
Territories.
Dakota
147,490:
14,181
Michigan*
56,451 |1,184,059|1,334,031
990
Nebraska ..
75.985
123.993
246,280
828
Utah ..
80,056
86,786
New Hampshire.
9,80
318,300
790
Brazil
10,000,000
3,253,029
3.07
Rio Janeiro.
420,000
1868
1870
8.4
15.1
2.1
1
1,000,000
1871
63,787
15.6
48,000
Paraguay.
Asuncion.
241.4
120.9
4.2
Guatemala
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HISTORY OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY.
CHAPTER 1.
TOPOGRAPHY-ELEVATIONS OF DIFFERENT POINTS-ARTESIAN WELLS-WATER POWERS-GEO- LOGICAL FORMATIONS-PHYSICAL FEATURES.
TOPOGRAPHY.
When Southeastern Wisconsin first emerged from the ocean, it doubtless presented an essentially plane surface, having a slight inclination to the east and southeast. The inequalities which it now presents are due to subsequent changes, the results of three classes of agents, acting at different times and under different conditions.
1. During the long ages between the emergence of the land and the drift period, the streams were cutting their beds deeper and deeper into the rock, and rendering the former level surface more and more irregular. The softer rocks were more readily eroded than the harder ones, and this helped to increase the unevenness. There was a tendency of the streams, so far as the slope favored, to follow the less resisting belts of soft rock. The little streams gathered into the larger ones in a manner not unlike that by which the branches of a tree are united into the trunk. The unevenness of surface produced by crosion of this nature possesses a certain kind of system and symmetry readily recognizable. As this erosion occupied the time preceding the glacial period, we may conveniently designate the features produced by it, pre- glacial. We have the best example of this kind of surface conformation in the lead region, over which the drift forces did not aet, and which has not been resubmerged, so that we have the results of this class of action pure and simple. As we proceed eastward into the region of drift action in the central part of the State. these features are modified more and more by the results of glacial action, until. in Eastern Wisconsin, they become wholly obscured, except in their grander outlines.
2. The modifications of the surface constituting this first class of topographical features were produced by running water; those of the second class, which were formed next in order of time, were caused by ice in the form of glaciers, it is confidently believed, and by the agencies brought into action through their melting. The work of the ice was twofold : First, in the level- ing of the surface by planing down the hills and filling up the valleys ; and second, in the cre- ation of a new uneven surface, by hcaping up in an irregular and promiscuous manner the clay, sand, gravel and bowlders it had formed, thus giving the surface a new aspect. Among the features produced by the action of the ice are parallel ridges, sometimes miles in length, having the same direction as the ice movement, hills of rounded, flowing contour, sometimes having a linear arrangement in the direction of glacial progress, mounds and hummocks of drift promis- cuously arranged on an otherwise plane surface, oval domes of rock (roches moutonees), sharp gravel ridges, often having a tortuous, serpentine course, transverse to the drift movement,
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peculiar depressions known as " kettles," and half-submerged rock gorges, known as " fiords," all of which combine to form a peculiar and distinctive surface contour. The melting of the ice mass gave rise to swollen lakes and flooded rivers, which eroded at some points and filled up at others, and so still farther modified the face of the country. All these peculiarities, being the result, directly or indirectly, of the ice action, may be denominated glacial features.
3. Subsequent to the glacial period, the wearing action of the streams was resumed, but under somewhat new conditions, and carved out a new surface contour, the features of which may be termed post-glacial.
To the agencies, ice and water, assisted slightly by winds, the topographical peculiarities of the county are chiefly due. There is no evidence of violent eruptions, upheavals or outbursts. There was, indeed, the gradual elevation and depression of the surface, and probably some little flexure of the crust; but the region has been free from violent agitation, and owes none of its salient topographical features to such causes.
Having thus briefly considered the general methods by which the present aspect of the county was produced, we may now more satisfactorily examine some of its special features.
No part of Wisconsin can properly be said to be mountainous, nor does it, over any consid- erable area, sink to a dead level. It presents the goklen mean in a gently undulating, diversified surface, readily traversible in all directions by the various highways of communica- tion.
Setting aside minor details, the State presents two general slopes-a short, abrupt declivity northward to Lake Superior, and a long, gentler incline southward. Through the center of this southward slope there extends a moderate north and south elevation, or arch-a low anti- clinal axis-giving a southeasterly and southwesterly inclination to the strata on either side. Fond du Lac County is situated in the center of the eastern slope.
The rock floor of this county would indicate an east southeast inclination of twenty-three feet to the mile, and a similar inclination continues beneath Sheboygan County and Lake Michigan. The bottom of that lake, at the depth of the ocean level (589 feet), is in the same geological horizon as Fond du Lac City. Take for example, the lower magnesian limestone, which is the lowest rock of any formation that outcrops in the county. The upper surface is easily recognized, being well defined. It outcrops in the town of Ripon, in the bluffs west of Ripon City, at an elevation of 382 feet above Lake Michigan. At the lligh School artesian well in the city of Fond du Lac, it was found at the depth of 425 feet, the surface of the well being 172 feet above Lake Michigan. The rock is, therefore, 625 feet lower than the top of the bluff at Ripon. At the village of Elmore, Section 15, town of Ashford, the lower mag- nesian limestone is found at 802 feet below the surface of the artesian well, which surface is 411 feet above Lake Michigan. The rock is, therefore, 391 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, and 773 feet lower than the top of the bluff at Ripon.
ELEVATIONS OF DIFFERENT POINTS.
Among the most instructive of the minor characteristics of the topography of Fond du Lac County are the elevations of a number of different points of its surface above Lake Michigan. These are given in feet. By adding 589 feet to those of any given point, the result will be the elevation above the ocean.
Township 13 north, of Range 18 east (Ashford) : Section 2, north line, 441 feet ; Section 2, average 516 feet ; Section 3, railroad cut, 459 feet ; Section 11, northeast quarter, 498 feet ; Section 13, center, 466 feet ; Section 23, Elmore Village, 421 feet ; Section 23, surface kettle formation, 444 feet ; Section 24, west side of the river, 322 feet.
Township 13 north, of Range 19 east (Auburn) : Section 8, center north half, 490 feet ; New Cassel bridge, 438 feet ; New Cassel depot, 466 feet; Section 30, Five Points, 468 feet ; Section 30, railroad crossing, 409 feet ; Section 32, southeast quarter, Milwaukee River, 376 feet.
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Township 17 north, of Range 19 east (Calumet) : Section 26, middle north line, 381 feet ; Section 28, near west line (stream), 335 feet ; Section 35, northwest quarter, 410 feet.
Township 14 north, of Runge 18 east (Eden) : Section 6, northwest corner, 433 feet ; Section 22, center, 463 feet ; Section 22, south line, 489 feet ; Section 24, southwest quarter, 472 feet ; Section 25, north half (creek), 404 feet; Section 25, northwest quarter, 515 feet ; Section 27, northeast quarter, river, 434 feet ; Section 27, southeast quarter, 432 feet ; Section 27, north line, northeast quarter, 415 feet.
Township 15 north, of Range 18 east (Empire) : Section 4, southeast corner, 399 feet ; Section 12, northwest quarter, lowland, 368 feet.
Township 15 north, of Range 19 east (Forest) : Section 7, east half, Sheboygan River, 356 feet; Section 9, southwest quarter, 410 feet; Section 9, southeast corner, stream, 360 feet ; Section 13, center northeast quarter, 498 feet ; Section 13, east line, northeast quarter, 497 feet ; Section 14, near east line, 445 feet ; Section 14, center, 428 feet ; Section 16, northeast quarter, 389 feet ; Section 24, center north half, 424 feet; Section 25, southwest quarter, stream, 451 feet ; Section 36, center, northwest quarter, 515 feet.
Township 16 north, of Range 19 east (Marshfield) : Section 6, northwest corner (estimated), 402 feet ; Section 6, stream, 360 feet ; Section 6, southwest corner, 406 feet ; Section 6, south- east corner, 433 feet ; Section 14, southeast quarter, Reichart quarry, 357 feet; Section 16, south line, Maria Hotel, 365 feet ; Section 17, north line (estimated) railroad, 371 feet ; Section 17, southwest corner, hill, 442 feet ; Section 20, near center, hill, 450 feet ; Section 24, south- east quarter, 424 feet ; Section 25, north line, 420 feet ; Section 30, southwest quarter, Steffer's Quarry, 409 feet ; Calvary Station, 363 feet ; St. Cloud Station, 349 feet.
Township 15 north, of Range 14 east (Metomen) : Section 1, northeast quarter, River's quarry, 350 feet : Reed's Corners Station, 407 feet ; Brandon Station, 421 feet.
Township 14 north, of Range 19 east ( Osceola) : Section 1, middle west line, 500 feet ; Section 4, northwest quarter, cross roads, 458 feet ; Section 11, southeast quarter, stream, 453 feet ; Section 13, Long Lake, 443 feet; Section 30, east half, pond, 413 feet; Section 32, north line, 518 feet ; Section 34, general level, 504 feet ; Section 35, north half, Canton, 566 feet.
Township 16 north, Range 14 east (Ripon) : Ripon Station, 352 feet ; cliff, west of road, 341 feet ; City Falls, under tressel bridge, 332 feet; city, top of St. Peters, near lime-kiln, 351 feet ; city, top of hill, west of lime-kiln, 373 feet; St. Peter's, west of lime-kiln, 358 feet ; Coomb's quarry, bottom, 370 feet ; Section 2 (estimated), southeast corner, 309 feet ; Section 19, middle west line, 304 feet ; Section 20, northwest quarter of northwest quarter, 327 feet ; Section 20, northwest of center, quarry, 400 feet; Section 20, little west of center, 397 feet ; Section 20, near middle of south line, 350 feet; Section 20, southwest quarter of southeast quarter, 351 feet ; Section 20, northeast quarter of northwest quarter, 381 feet; Section 21, quarry southwest of Mr. Starr's, 364 feet ; Section 26, northwest quarter, 366 feet ; Section 28, north line northeast quarter, 370 feet ; Section 29, northeast quarter, near center, 350 feet ; Section 29, northeast quarter, top of limestone, 370 feet ; Section 29, twenty rods south of limestone, 341 feet ; Section 35, southeast quarter, 364 feet ; Section 36, southeast quarter, .stream, 343 feet.
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