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PREFACE.

Two years ago I tried the experiment of compiling the "Blue Book" wholly in this department, with the aid of the clerical force, and from the gratuitous expression of approval from the legislature and the public generally, the book must have been regarded as very acceptable. The legislature immediately ordered a second edition, large enough to supply one copy to every school district and high school in the state, as well as one to every public library - thus recognizing its educational, as well as its statistical value. The present vol. ume has been compiled in the same manner. It has not only been re-compiled, but a large number of new features added. The old ideal pictures of our state institutions have been mostly replaced by actual cuts. Among the new or changed features will be found a list of members of Wisconsin legislature continued up to 1889, inclusive, alphabetically; electoral vote by states, 1860-1888; comparative table, popular vote, 1884-1888, with pluralities, by states; vote for president and governor, 1888, by counties, towns, cities and election districts; population 1885, with pluralities; comparative table presidential vote 18841888, by counties; same, president and governor, 1888; official vote for circuit judges, 1887-88; official vote for members of congress, 1888; financial transactions showing amounts received from and paid to counties, 1888; post-offices, by townships; number of pension claims presented and allowed by United States government, 1861-1888; number paid in Wisconsin, by counties, with amounts, quarter ending June 3, 1888; number of acres of public domain and forests; immigration into United States; troops engaged in civil war; list of consuls and consular agents of United States, 1887, with salary, etc.; public libraries in Wisconsin; party platforms, state and national; new cuts; maps of congressional, senate and assembly districts and judicial circuits, with population, 1885; members of 51st congress; internal revenue districts in Wisconsin, with territory embraced; United States government land offices. Trusting that this Blue Book will be found to be an improvement over that of 1887, I again invite intelligent criticism from the public.

E. G. T.

PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BLUE BOOKS.

CHAPTER 14, LAWS OF 1882..

AN ACT to amend chapter 123 of the laws of 1880, in relation to the distribution of the Blue
Book.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 123 of the laws of 1880, entitled an act to amend chapter 141 of the laws of 1879, in relation to the distribution of Blue Books, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The secretary of state shall cause to be printed eight thousand copies of such Blue Book at each regular session of the Wisconsin legislature, to be dis tributed as follows: Fifty copies to each member of the senate and assembly, five copies each to the chief clerks and sergeants-at-arms of the two houses, one copy to each of the clerks and employes of the two houses, whose names appear in the Blue Book; one copy to the clerk of each standing committee, fifty copies each to the governor, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction; twenty-five copies each to the lieutenant-governor, state treasurer, attorney general, and insurance and railroad commissioner; two copies each to the rest of the state officers in the capitol, and one to each of their assistants; one copy each to the state agricultural society, the state horticultural society, the state board of charities and reform, and to the academy of arts and science; one copy to the home office of the Wisconsin humane society, and one copy to each branch office of said society; one copy to each regent of the state university and normal schools; one copy to each of the college, academy, free high school, normal school and free public libraries of the state, and to the state penal and charitable institutions; one copy each to the county clerks and superintendents of schools of the several counties in this state, and to the clerk of the supreme court of the United States courts for Wisconsin; one copy each to the reporters in regular attendance on the legislature; one copy to each justice of the supreme court, to each judge of the United States courts sitting within this state, circuit judge and county judge, and sixty copies to the state historical society, and one copy to each member of the state board of health. The remainder shall be kept by the secretary of state, who shall deliver to the superintendent of public property, at the commencement of each session of the legislature, one hundred and thirty-seven copies, to be by him distributed to the members of the legislature, and to the chief clerks and sergeants-at-arms of each house at the opening of the session; the remainder to be kept for exchange. One copy of such Blue Book for each justice of the supreme court, state officer and each member of the senate and assembly and the chief clerks thereof, shall be bound in half morocco and be lettered with the name of the person entitled to receive it. Each county clerk receiving such Blue Book shall preserve and deliver the same to his successor in office, and it shall be for the use of all persons desiring to use the same in the office of said clerk. The expense for preparing and publishing such Blue Book, other than such as is covered by the contract with the state printer, shall be fixed by the secretary of state and paid out of the state treasury. SECTION 2. The provisions of this act shall be construed to apply to the publication and distribution for the year 1882.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved February 23, 1882.

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