History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources : an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages-their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies : Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers : the Whole Preceeded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United StatesWestern Historical Company, 1881 - 862 pages |
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... miles in width from near the portage north , on each side of the Wisconsin river and forty - eight miles long - still leaving them in peace- able possession of a country about one hundred and twenty miles long , and about eighty broad ...
... miles in width from near the portage north , on each side of the Wisconsin river and forty - eight miles long - still leaving them in peace- able possession of a country about one hundred and twenty miles long , and about eighty broad ...
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... miles from its mouth , and down that stream to the Missis- sippi . It then ran up the latter river to the mouth of the Wisconsin , and up that stream to a point thirty - six miles in a direct line from its mouth ; thence by a straight ...
... miles from its mouth , and down that stream to the Missis- sippi . It then ran up the latter river to the mouth of the Wisconsin , and up that stream to a point thirty - six miles in a direct line from its mouth ; thence by a straight ...
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... miles in width , and extending from the Missouri State line as far north as the northern boundary of the present State of Iowa , constituted the whole extent of country over which the Indians had no claim . The second session of the ...
... miles in width , and extending from the Missouri State line as far north as the northern boundary of the present State of Iowa , constituted the whole extent of country over which the Indians had no claim . The second session of the ...
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... miles ; an average breadth of two hundred and fifteen miles . The constitution of Wisconsin , adopted by the people on the second Monday of March , 1848 , provided for the election of a governor , lieutenant governor , secretary of ...
... miles ; an average breadth of two hundred and fifteen miles . The constitution of Wisconsin , adopted by the people on the second Monday of March , 1848 , provided for the election of a governor , lieutenant governor , secretary of ...
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... miles in length and one hundred miles in width . The action was not confined to a single overflow , but eruption followed eruption , sometimes apparently in quick succession , sometimes evidently at long intervals . Each outpouring ...
... miles in length and one hundred miles in width . The action was not confined to a single overflow , but eruption followed eruption , sometimes apparently in quick succession , sometimes evidently at long intervals . Each outpouring ...
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Page 71 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 101 - ... five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 301 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...
Page 101 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 35 - Woods and Mississippi. The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said...
Page 302 - ... claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. SEC. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
Page 300 - That in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability...
Page 298 - No person shall' be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Page 95 - That all persons shall before conviction be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great.
Page 287 - PREAMBLE* We. the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, form a more perfect government, insure domestic tranquility and promote the general welfare, do establish this constitution.