Proceedings [of The] Annual Business MeetingState Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1921 |
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Acting Governor adjourned adopted amount appointed assembly balance borrowers Burnett moved Cassville cent certificate chairman collection commissioners Congress constitution court district Domesday Book Doty duty Edgerton election executive exhibits favor Five Hundred Thousand Fond du Lac Fund Income gentleman from Brown Grant County Green Bay Hamilton Historical Society Horner Hundred Thousand Acres Indian interest Iowa Iowa County January John Joseph Schafer July Knapp Lacher Lake Michigan Lake Winnebago land office Legislative Council legislature loan Madison measure memorial ment Milwaukee Mississippi mittee motion moved to amend Museum newspaper paid Prairie du Chien present President proclamation purchase railroad Ray Stevens received resolution Resolved River Sauk Sauk County school fund seat of government Secretary section lands secure session settlers sixteenth section Slaughter speculators Steensland Superintendent survey territorial government territory of Michigan tion Treasurer university lands Vineyard vote Waukesha William Winnebago Wisconsin
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Страница 183 - B5 page 31. 66 That these lands were generally sold prematurely is evidenced by the fact that the average price received for 476,795 acres of them was only $1.42, while half a million acres of the sixteenth section lands sold during the same period brought on the average $2.74. This in spite of the fact that the former were "selected" lands. See Report of Joint Select Committee, 1856, p. 25. Premature sales meant the speculator's opportunity. The sixteenth section lands went more largely to settlers,...
Страница 111 - Mississippi are not within its jurisdiction, and presuming such decision to be correct, the monstrous anomaly was presented, that ten or twelve thousand freemen, citizens of the United States, living in its territory, should be unprotected in their lives and their property by its courts of civil and criminal jurisprudence, which was unparalleled in the annals of republican legislation.
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