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840,378
1,904.988 2.288.420
8,213.255
1,500
150,200
129,310
180,000
140.000
670.710 188.213
Washington ...
1.042.347
4,927.634
5.989,981
7,500
500
218,760
2,300
2,325
74.225
Wanshara
343.509
1,343,029
1,686 538
21,350
21.080
02.524
Winnebago
3,081,308
9,810.290
12.891.598
6.3×0
29,495
36,860
84.780
1,550
139.065
Wood
251,669
598,920
850,589
1,500
27.000
2.720
7.740
88,960
Total
$274,417,873
$351,780.354
82,13,636
2.735,817
4,774,828
7.487,627
1,663.388
18.524,196
Door .
135.107
659,650
794,757
2,927,448
5,558.375
72,130
16,933
56,930
627,155
838 153
Eau Claire.
1.354.142
4,20-1,233
14.139,528 9.541.996 8,257.428
500
88.070
Green Lake ..
789.736
3,485,819
600
253,599
Jefferson ..
1,753.985
7,896,833
9,650,818
12,600
19,280
51,800
6.275
123.525
Kenosha ..
1.320,957
4,488,186
300
102,600
400
254,828
1.141.320
5.290,599
6.431.923
28.210
21,248
Marathon ..
335.078 326,668
1,033,967
46.477.253
9.653.102 3,867.298
38,100
76,720
... 3,000
Ozaukee
381,784
2,803,688
3,185,472
5,280
18,415
32,920
136,000
44,253
595,316
8,071.811
22,700
2.520.557
525
50,000
242,650
Rock ..
4,462,048
18.393.458
28,000
9.000,031
10,725
4,125
Taylor ..
53.812
816.421
870.233
350
2,000
26.300
8,300
1,300
26.050
Walworth
8.187,722
10,559.51
13,747.241
70.200
120,670
200
220.150
Waupaca
480.837
1.826,908
2,307.745
250
34.940
34,410
336,400
775
35,725
Vernon.
924,835
60,033
Waukesha.
3.165,504
11,892.119
15.057.623
700
2,800
5.714
Sheboygan
1,903.861
7.096,170
191,275
Marquette ..
1.052,300
1,875,148
3.200
3.200
15.075
237.915
402.300
Chippewa
965.624
4.359,245
5,324,869
699.357
89,800
252.987
296 305
Dodge.
2.446,793
11.014,318
13,461,111
7,029
200
22 638
428 004
31 200
77.3
5,257,555
Milwaukee
Monroe
Oconto ...
Ontagamute
196,090
114.740
2.435.319
1.121.599
8,000
236,000
39,410
Richland.
612,121
1,908.386
13,931,410
4,036.813
14.925
123.895
2.325
900
1,592.018
1,275,555
4,348.452
1-1,393
13,220
73
60,174
184.875
812,028
l'o., town, 'School, col- church and
$ 21.158
195
125
326,638
359,390
1,200
2,745.366
Manitowoc
1,744,901
261
STATISTICS OF WISCONSIN.
ACREAGE OF PRINCIPAL CROPS
GROWN IN 1876.
NUMBER OF ACRES.
COUNTIES.
Wheat.
Corn.
Oats.
Barley.
Rye.
Hops.
Tobacco.
Flax-seed.
Adams
5,146
11,456
5,353
83
8,488
660
5%
Ashland.
5
26
84
Barron.
4,070%
6394
3.4774
759%
282%
27
116
Bayfield.
16.384
13.923
5.732
5,01%
5,254
17%
Buffalo.
18.50716
9,2134
12,573%
2,751
870
916
Burnett
1,179
216%
637
58
264
Calumet.
32.860%
4,583
9,858
4.048%
23116
39
9
Chippewa
10.442
2,734
9,032
1,258
185
10%
Clark ..
2,457
1,596
2.408
2018
95
3
Columbia
64,472
40,274
24.071
7 694
7 648
593%
Crawford
19,054
19.173
10,584
3.912
1.588
18
15
45
Dane ..
89,253
84,072
67,120
23.499
7,410
317%
2.4591%
153%
Dodge.
128.708
29,401 %
25,592X
11,463
2.134%
136
8
Door ..
4,771
352
3,391
696
788
Douglas.
5
30
1.560
1,156
68
Eau Claire.
2F >85
11.765
7,183
1.212
933
11
Fond du Lac.
87.612
18,208%
20,763
8 554
75416
4.1
Grant
29,643
98.709
62,054
2.839
3.296
113%
29
25.217
Green ..
4.409
58.168
34,191
666%
3.79314
28
863
Green Lake.
37,064
15.608
8,013
1,170
3.455
219
22
lowa ..
21,676
46,980
34,433
2.609%
1.892
179%
1
10,145
Jackson.
19.953
8,071%
12,1891
1,739
613
~116
Jefferson
33.569
28,379
16.845
8,773
7,611
840
100
6
Kenosha
4,782
15,813
14,174
1,649
611
Kewaunee
17.702
1,056
10.632
2,164
3.520
La Crosse.
38,800
10,581
J'.949
3,045
3,177
24916
4,403
61,549
50,194
1,273
1.735
13
16,670
Manitowoc
4,538%
85444
21.437%
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
7.104%
10,213%
5,063
3.074%
G5
31,634
12,608
12,864
1.769
1,2207
390
2,490
734
3.412
352
724
3
8 076
4 761
2.4471%
94014
514
115
Ozaukee
27 -251%
2 6841
9 473
4.116%.
2.430%
15
Pepiu
13.590%
6,924
4.475
613%
563
254
Pierce
11,187
8,984
8,338
2.851
258
3
10
Polk ..
9.293
4.104
1,842
440
326
15.701%
11,056
9,086%
1.28414
7,665%
584%
7.884%
11.904%
15.241%
5894
1,770%
499%
212
Rock.
12.384%
: 2.0411
60,103
19.424
15.038%
41%
2.10514
282
St. Croix
77.810
5.390
17,541
2.022
173
Sank ...
27,701
33.816%
24.469%
2.197%
6.1644
3,1184
Shawano
6,485
1,904
4,40812
205
1,160%
Sheboygan
45,959
8.244
16,704
7.519
4,332
49
13
Taylor
6014
544
3
X
Trempealean
53.656
12.106
15,034
2.381%
550
12
Vernon
42.27
22.499
23.055
5.542
633
187
11
Walworth
20,588
45.456
28.225
8.934%
4.875%
107%
114
1,169
Waukesha.
34,140
26,318
18.980
8,527
7,659
239
5
Waupaca.
13.516
9.534
7.418
1,060
4,363
3
Wanshara
12 573
18.726%
8.847
636%
15,416
340
9
Winnebago.
49 999
15.404
13,813
1.427
982
110
Wood
637
958
1,029
294
37244
Total
1,445.650%
1.025.801%
854.861%
183.030%
175.3144
11.184%
4.842
62.008%
2
Juneau
11.598%
11,848%
14,27216
415
3,137
1.169
8
3.434
Lincoln
262
~12
20
Marquette
Milwaukee.
Monroe
Oconto.
Ontagamie
Portage
2,212
3116
4.2851
Richland.
13.2244
. 460%
11,606x
1
Washington
53,691
11,613
14,104
6.614
6,002
113
La Fayette.
27.308
9.671
13.833
14
Dunn
..
2%
1115
3
Racine.
1
20
15
Brown.
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HISTORY OF WISCONSIN.
ACREAGE OF PRINCIPAL CROPS
GROWN IN 1876.
NUMBER OF ACRES.
COUNTIES.
Cultivated Grasses.
Potatoes.
Roots.
Apples.
vateil Cranur Fries.
Finiber.
Adams
3.161
771
6
58
25,040
553
Ashland
Barrou.
1.843%
34114
553
28%
24,175
Bayfieldl.
100
30
5
Brown
5,769%
909%
254
219
16
14,739
Calumet
13,361
1.017
37
552%
57.463
1,733
Chippewa
9.348
425
78
36
51,879
1,689
Crawford
4,925
2.493
618
2.460
50
Dane ..
53.219
3.585
80
4.830%
30
111.463
2.9691
Dodge
29.552
3.7801
89
16,254
49,3694
2.489%
Door
257
20
100
10
61×
5,414
8
Eau Claire
41,609
2.701%
6144
2.935%
44.986
1,500
37,792
3.034
16
5.980%
20,3135
1.037
Green Lake.
13.920
921
5
1.467
45
22,393
566
Iowa.
15.566
1,650%
16
1,987%!
51.026
1,515
Jackson
5.316
510
41
100
5:20
53 880
10%
Jefferson.
17.407
2,209
94
2.233
33.774
5,269
June:u.
8.705
1,738
5:2%
339
Kenosha
29.856
1,060
18%
2.170
19.896
1.321
Kewaunee
5,665
1.487
10
44
37.573
1,174
La Crosse
11.390
281
99
239
29.763
30
la Fayette.
22.719
1,633
994
24,037
1.007
Llucofu .. .
316
106
108
689
257.341
7741
Marathon ..
5.453
667
138
46
151
20.525
1.073
20,557
3.030%
137%
1,934%
1
16.211
113
14,217
1,520
406
4.412
33.756
1.666
Ocouto ..
6,170
836
71
11,681
51
13
1,266%
1
22,077
1,349
Pepin.
10.1423%
2,016%
1283
60%
580
52.150
343 840
Richland
18,9244
1.153K
10%
479
65.394
2.160%
Rock
57,1325
2.930
19003
3,676
57.587%
5,416
St. l'roix
14.293
1.176
10
457
3,606
80
Sheboygan
40,123
2.723
133
1,730
68,057
10,738
l'rempealeau
18,738
878%
4116
279%
1%
12.149
$270
Vernon
20,197
1.241
140
749
91,194
1,134
Walworth.
45.093
2,183%
5316
4.056%
50,221
2,798
Washington
6.513
46.821
9,430
50.095
137
50 080
16,080
Waukesha.
38,629
3.95%
353
4.952
30
42,690
1,529
Waupaca.
13,540
1,695
98
205
185
82.985
610
Waushara.
9,770
1,342
836%
1,053
66.510
117
Winnebago
23,433
1.630
35
1,561
194
25,737
720
Wood ...
1.35
169
400
93,242
Total.
889.0144
123.4204
13.6243
139.891%|
17,664%|
1.090 426%
76.945%
Pierce.
12,974
724
41
182.671
121
Polk
2.642
591
178
11
Racine
21.513%
1.5484
46%
16,004
28.718%
Shawano
-1.111
548
64%
3,101
80.533
16
Taylor.
173
34
2
225,222%
3,209%
1044
1.054%
88,058%
1.248%
Marquette.
3.387
946
50
1.856
Monroe
20
19.433
Ozankee.
8,528
1,566%
100
2,766
126.116
3,848
Green.
25,833
1,159
Columbia
32.326
1,918%
104
1.533%
Douglas
500,000
1)211311
10,032
989
219
Burnett.
39
120%
17%
4,000
126 000
Clover Seed, Bushels.
266
75
1.152.000
Clark
Fond du Lac.
Grant.
2,757%
Manitowoc
32.256%
2,251
Milwaukee
Outagamie.
Portage
100
150
Buffalo
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 elcetion, 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 proceed 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.
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IIISTORY OF WISCONSIN
SEC. 20. A registry of electors shall annually be made :
1. In cach 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 census. had a popula- tion of fifteen hundred or more.
9 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- tricts 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 distriets 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 S 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 clection 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 elect- 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 origmal 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 ten of the most public places of said election district, or may publish the same in a newspaper at an expense not exceeding one cent for each namc.
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
265
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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 therein 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 hereinbefore 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 continuous 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 freeholders, 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 al :o 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 moro 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.
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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- triet 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 district, and cause the same to bo 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 tho first meeting, and recorded in the minutes thereof : and every school district shall be considered.
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as duly organized after it shall have exercised the franchises and privileges of a district for the term of two years.
SEC. 425. The annual meeting of all school districts in which graded schools of two or more departments are taught, shall be held on the second Monday of July, and of all other school districts on the last Monday of September, in each year. The hour of such meeting shall be seven o'clock in the afternoon, unless otherwise provided by a vote of the district, duly recorded at the last previous annual meeting ; but at any annual meeting a majority of the electors present may determine that the annual meeting of such district shall be held on the last Monday of August instead of the last Monday of September. Said determination to take effect when a copy of the proceedings of said annual meeting in reference to such change shall have been filed with the Town Clerk in which the schoolhouse of such district is situated, and to remain in force until rescinded by a like vote of the electors of such district.
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