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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... river of the Illinois , in that of Rock river and its branches , in the valley of Fox river of Green bay , in that of the Wisconsin , as well as near the waters of the Mississippi . While a few circumvallations and immense mounds , such ...
... river of the Illinois , in that of Rock river and its branches , in the valley of Fox river of Green bay , in that of the Wisconsin , as well as near the waters of the Mississippi . While a few circumvallations and immense mounds , such ...
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... river . Finally , after the lapse of a century and a quarter , down to 1760 , when the French yielded to the English all claims to the country , the territory of the Menomonees had shifted somewhat to the westward and southward , and ...
... river . Finally , after the lapse of a century and a quarter , down to 1760 , when the French yielded to the English all claims to the country , the territory of the Menomonees had shifted somewhat to the westward and southward , and ...
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... river , the shore of Lake Michigan , Green bay , Fox river , and Winnebago lake ; its western division , by the Wisconsin and Chippewa rivers on the west ; Fox river on the south ; Green bay on the east , and the high lands whence flow ...
... river , the shore of Lake Michigan , Green bay , Fox river , and Winnebago lake ; its western division , by the Wisconsin and Chippewa rivers on the west ; Fox river on the south ; Green bay on the east , and the high lands whence flow ...
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... river of Green bay was found at that date a difficult stream to navigate . Two Jesuits who ascended the river in 1670 , had " three or four leagues of rapids to contend with , " when they had advanced “ one day's journey " from the head ...
... river of Green bay was found at that date a difficult stream to navigate . Two Jesuits who ascended the river in 1670 , had " three or four leagues of rapids to contend with , " when they had advanced “ one day's journey " from the head ...
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... river ; afterward extended to the Wisconsin and Rock rivers . They readily changed their course of trade — asking now of the commandant at the fort for English traders to be sent among them . In the Indian outbreak under Pontiac in 1763 ...
... river ; afterward extended to the Wisconsin and Rock rivers . They readily changed their course of trade — asking now of the commandant at the fort for English traders to be sent among them . In the Indian outbreak under Pontiac in 1763 ...
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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.