Rock County, Wisconsin
Formation of the County
Source: The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth; By Western historical company, Chicago, pub, Western Historical Society; Publ. 1879; Pgs. 287-312;
Rock County, Wisconsin
Formation of the County
Source: The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth;
By Western historical company, Chicago, pub, Western Historical Society; Publ. 1879; Pgs. 287-312;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN
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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.
Article I.
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
Section 1. All men are born free and independent, and have, among other rights, those of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Governments are instituted to secure these rights.
Section 2. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crimes.
Section 3. Liberty of speech and of the press shall not be abridged.
Section 4. The right of the people to peaceably assemble to consult for the common good shall never be abridged.
Section 5. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.
Section 6. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishments inflicted.
Section 7. In criminal prosecutions, the rights of the accused shall be protected.
Section 8. Criminal offenses shall be prosecuted on presentment of a grand jury. No one shall be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense, nor be compelled to be a witness against himself. Every one stall have the right of giving bail except in capital offenses ; and the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, except in case of rebellion or invasion.
Section 9. Every person is entitled to a certain remedy for all injuries or wrongs.
Section 10. Treason consists in levying war against the State, or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Two witnesses are necessary to convict a person of the crime.
Section 11. The people are to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Section 12. Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, or laws impairing obligation of contracts, shall never be passed.
Section 13. No property shall be taken for public use without compensation.
Section 14. All laws in the State are allodial. Feudal tenures are prohibited.
Section 15. The rights of property are the same in resident aliens and citizens.
Section 16. No person shall be imprisoned for debt.
Section 17. Wholesome exemption laws shall be passed.
Section 18. Liberty of conscience and rights of worship shall never be abridged. The public money shall never be applied to sectarian uses.
Section 19. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for any office.
Section 20. The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.
Section 21. Writs of error shall never be prohibited by law.
Section 22. A free government can only be maintained by adhering to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue.
Article II.
BOUNDARIES.
Section 1. The boundary of the State, beginning at the northeast corner of the State of Illinois, runs with the boundary line of Michigan, through Lake Michigan and Green Bay, to the mouth of the Menominie River; up that stream and the Brule River to Lake Brule; along the southern shore of that lake to the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head of Montreal River; down the main channel of that stream to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the center of said lake to the mouth of St. Louis River; up the channel of that stream to the first rapids; thence due south to the main branch of the St. Croix; down that river and the Mississippi to the northwest corner of Illinois; thence due east with the northern boundary of that State to the place of beginning.
Section 2. The propositions in the enabling act of Congress are accepted and confirmed.
Article III.
SUFFRAGE.
Section 1. The qualified electors are all male persons twenty-one years of age or upward, who are
(1.) white citizens of the United States;
(2.) who are white persons of foreign birth that have declared their intentions, according to law, to become citizens;
(3) who are persons of Indian blood and citizens of the United States; and
(4.) civilized Indians not members of any tribe.
Section 2. Persons under guardianship, such as are non compus mentis or insane and those convicted of treason and felony and not pardoned, are not qualified electors.
Section 3. All votes shall be by ballot, except for township officers when otherwise directed by law.
Section 4. No person shall be deemed to have lost his residence by reason of his absence on business for the State or United States.
Section 5. No person in the army or navy shall become a resident of the State in consequence of being stationed therein.
Section 6. Persons convicted of bribery, larceny or any infamous crime, or those who hot on elections, may be excluded by law from the right of suffrage.
Article IV.
LEGISLATIVE.
Section 1. The Legislative power is invested in a Senate and Assembly.
Section 2. Members of the Assembly shall never number less than fifty-four, nor more than one hundred; of the Senate, not more than one-third, nor less than one-fourth of the members of the Assembly.
Section 3. Census shall be taken, every ten years, of the inhabitants of the State, beginning with 1855, when a new apportionment of members of the Senate and Assembly shall be made; also, after each United States census.
Section 4. Members of the Assembly shall be chosen on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November of each year.
Section 5. Members of the Senate shall be elected for two years, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the Assembly.
Section 6. No person shall be eligible to the Legislature, unless a resident of the State one year, and ? qualified elector.
Section 7. Each House shall be the judge of the qualifications of its members. A majority shall be necessary to form a quorum.
Section 8. Each House shall make its own rules.
Section 9. Each House shall choose its own officers.
Section 10. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings.
Section 11. The Legislature shall meet at the seat of government once a year.
Section 12. No member shall be eligible to any other civil office in the State, during the term for which he was elected.
Section 13. No member shall be eligible to any office of the United States, during the term for which he was elected.
Section 14. Writs of election, to fill vacancies in either House, shall be issued by the Governor.
Section 15. Except treason, felony and breach of the peace, members are privileged from arrest in all cases; nor subject to any civil process during a session.
Section 16. Members are not liable for words spoken in debate.
Section 17. The style of all laws shall be, " The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:"
Section 18. Private or local bills shall not embrace more than one subject.
Section 19. Bills may originate in either House, and a bill passed by one House may be amended by the other.
Section 20. Yeas and nays, at the request of one-sixth of the members present, shall be entered on the journal.
Section 21. [Each member shall receive, as an annual compensation, three hundred and fifty dollars and ten cents for each mile traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government]. As amended in 1867.
Section 22. Boards of Supervisors may be vested with powers of a local, legislative and administrative character, such as shall be conferred by the Legislature.
Section 23. One system only, of town and county government, shall be established by the Legislature.
Section 24. The Legislature shall never authorize any lottery, or grant any divorce.
Section 25. Stationery, for State use and State printing, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder.
Section 26. Extra compensation to any public officer shall not be granted after service is rendered, nor shall his compensation be increased or diminished during his term of office.
Section 27. The Legislature shall direct, by law, in what manner and in what Courts suits against the State may be brought.
Section 28. Public officers shall all take an oath of office.
Section 29. The Legislature shall determine what persons shall constitute the militia, and may provide for organizing the same.
Section 30. Members of the Legislature shall vote viva voce in all elections made by them.
Section 31. [Special legislation is prohibited
(1) for changing the name of persons, or constituting one person the heir-at-law of another;
(2) for laying out, opening or altering highways, except in certain cases;
(3) for authorizing persons to keep ferries;
(4) for authorizing the sale of the property of minors;
(5) for locating a county seat;
(6) for assessment of taxes;
(7) for granting corporate powers, except to cities;
(8) for apportioning any part of the school fund; and
(9) for incorporating any town or village, or to award the charter thereof]. Added by amendment, in 1871.
Section 32. [General laws shall be passed for the transaction of any business prohibited by Section 21 of this Article.] Added by amendment, in 1871.
Article V.
Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a Governor, who shall hold his office two years. A Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the same time and for the same term.
Section 2. Governor and Lieutenant Governor must be citizens of the United States, and qualified electors of the State.
Section 3. Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected at the times and places of choosing members of the Legislature.
Section 4. The Governor shall be
(1) commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of the State;
(2) he has power to convene the Legislature in extra session;
(3) he shall communicate to the Legislature all necessary information;
(4) he shall transact all necessary business with the officers of the State; and
(5) shall expedite all legislative measures, and see that the laws are faithfully executed.
Section 5. [The Governor's salary shall be five thousand dollars per annum.] As amended in 1869.
Section 6. The Governor shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons.
Section 7. The executive duties shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor when, from any cause, the executive office is vacated by the Governor.
Section 8. The Lieutenant Governor shall be President of the Senate. The Secretary of State shall act as Governor when both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are incapacitated from any causes to fill the executive office.
Section 9. [The Lieutenant Governor shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per: anum.] As amended in 18G9.
Section 10. All legislative bills shall be presented to the Governor for his signature before they become laws. Bills returned by the Governor without his signature may become laws by agreement of two-thirds of the members present in each house.
Article VI.
ADMINISTRATION.
Section 1. A Secretary of State, Treasurer and Attorney General shall be elected at the times and places of choosing members of the Legislature, who shall severally hold their offices for two years.
Section 2. The Secretary of State shall keep a record of the official acts of the Legislature and Executive Department. He shall be ex officio Auditor.
Section 3. The powers, duties and compensation of the Treasurer and Attorney General shall be prescribed by law.
Section 4. Sheriffs, Coroners, Registers of Deeds and District Attorneys shall be elected every two years.
Article VII.
Judiciary.
Section 1. The Senate shall form the Court of Impeachment. Judgment shall not extend further than removal from office; but the person impeached shall be liable to indictment, trial and punishment, according to law.
Section 2. The judicial power of the State is vested in a Supreme Court, Circuit Courts. Courts of Probate, and in Justices of the Peace. Municipal courts, also, may be authorized.
Section 3. The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction only. Trial by jury is not allowed in any case. The Court shall have a general superintending control over inferior courts, and power to issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, injunction, quo warranto, certiorari and other original and remedial writs.
Section 4. [The Supreme Court shall consist of one Chief Justice, and four Associate Justices, each for the term often years.] As amended in 1877.
Section 5. The State shall be divided into five Judicial Circuits.
Section 6. The Legislature may alter the limits or increase the number of the circuits.
Section 7. There shall be a Judge chosen for each Circuit, who shall reside therein; his term of office shall be six years.
Section 8. The Circuit Courts shall have original jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal, not excepted in this Constitution, and not prohibited hereafter by law, arid appellate jurisdiction from all inferior courts. They shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus, mandamus, injunction, quo warranto, certiorari, and all other writs necessary to carry their orders and judgments into effect.
Section 9. Vacancies in the office of Supreme or Circuit Judge shall be filled by the Governor. Election for Judges shall not be at any general election, nor within thirty days before or after said election.
Section 10. Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts shall receive a salary of not less than one thousand five hundred dollars, and shall hold no other office, except a judicial one, during the term for which they are respectively elected. Each Judge shall be a citizen of the United States, and have attained the age of twenty-five years. He shall also be a qualified elector within the jurisdiction for which he may be chosen.
Section 11. The Supreme Court shall hold at least one term annually. A Circuit Court shall be held at least twice in each year, in each county of this State organized for judicial purposes.
Section 12. There shall be a Clerk of the Circuit Court chosen in each county, whose term of office shall be two years. The Supreme Court shall appoint its own Clerk.
Section 13. Any Judge of the Supreme or Circuit Court may be removed from office by vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to both Senate and Assembly.
Section 14. A Judge of Probate shall be elected in each county, who shall hold his office for two years.
Section 15. Justices of the Peace shall be elected in the several towns, villages and cities of the State, in such manner as the Legislature may direct, whose term of office shall be two years. Their civil and criminal jurisdiction shall be prescribed by law.
Section 16. Laws shall be passed for the regulation of tribunals of conciliation. These may be established in and for any township.
Section 17. The style of all writs and process shall be "The State of Wisconsin." Criminal prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by authority of the State; and all indictments shall conclude against the peace and dignity of the same.
Section 18. A tax shall be imposed by the Legislature on all civil suits, which shall constitute a fund, to be applied toward the payment of the salary of Judges.
Section 19. Testimony in equity causes shall be taken the same as in cases at law. The office of Master in Chancery is prohibited.
Section 20. Any suitor may prosecute or defend his case in his own proper person, or by attorney or agent.
Section 21. Statute laws and such judicial decisions as are deemed expedient shall be published. No general law shall be in force until published.
Section 22. The Legislature at its first session shall provide for the appointment of three Commissioners to revise the rules of practice in the several Courts of Record in the State.
Section 23. The Legislature may confer judicial powers on one or more persons in each organized county of the State. Powers granted to such Commissioners shall not exceed that for a Judge of a Circuit Court at chambers.
Article VIII.
FINANCE.
Section 1. Taxation shall be uniform, and taxes shall be levied upon such property as the Legislature may prescribe.
Section 2. [No money shall be paid out of the treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation by law. Claims made against the State must be filed within six years after having accrued.] As amended in 1877.
Section 3. The credit of the State shall never be given or loaned in aid of any individual, association or corporation.
Section 4. The State shall never contract any public debt, except in the cases and manner provided in this Constitution.
Section 5. A tax shall be levied each year sufficient to defray estimated expenses.
Section 6. Debts not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars may be contracted by the State, which shall be paid within five years thereafter.
Section 7. The Legislature may borrow money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection or defend the State in time of war.
Section 8. All fiscal laws in the Legislature shall be voted on by yeas and nays.
Section 9. State scrip shall not be issued except for such debts as are authorized by the sixth and seventh sections of this article.
Section 10. No debt for internal improvements shall be contracted by the State.
Article IX.
EMINENT DOMAIN AND PROPERTY OF THE STATE.
Section 1. The State shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers and lakes bordering on Wisconsin.
Section 2. The title to all property which has accrued to the Territory of Wisconsin shall vest in the State of Wisconsin.
Section 3. The ultimate property in and to all lands of the State is possessed by the people.
Article X.
Education.
Section 1. The supervision of public instruction shall be vested in a State Superintendent and such other officers as the Legislature shall direct. The annual compensation of the State Superintendent shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars.
Section 2. The school fund to support and maintain common schools, academies and normal schools, and to purchase apparatus and libraries therefore, shall be created out of
(1) the proceeds of lands from the United States;
(2) out of forfeitures and escheats;
(3) out of moneys paid as exemptions from military duty;
(4) out of fines collected for breach of penal laws;
(5) out of any grant to the State where the purposes of such grant are not specified;
(6) out of the proceeds of the sale of five hundred thousand acres of land granted by Congress September 14, 1841; and
(7) out of the five per centum of the net proceeds of the public lands to which the State shall become entitled on her admission into the Union (if Congress shall consent to such appropriation of the two grants last mentioned.)
Section 3. District schools shall be established by law which shall be free to all children between the ages of four and twenty years. No sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.
Section 4. Each town and city shall raise for common schools therein by taxation a sum equal to one-half the amount received from the school fund of the State.
Section 5. Provisions shall be made by law for the distribution of the income of the schools fund among the several towns and cities for the support of common schools therein; but no appropriation shall be made when there is a failure to raise the proper tax, or when a school shall not have been maintained at least three months of the year.
Section 6. Provision shall be made by law for the establishment of a State University. The proceeds of all lands granted for the support of a university by the United States shall constitute "the University fund," the interest of which shall be appropriated to the support of the State University. No sectarian instruction shall be allowed in such university.
Section 7. The Secretary of State, Treasurer and Attorney General shall constitute a Board of Commissioners to sell school and university lands and for the investments of the proceeds thereof.
Section 8. School and university lands shall be appraised and sold according to law. The Commissioners shall execute deeds to purchasers, and shall invest the proceeds of the sales of such lands in such manner as the Legislature shall provide.
Article XI
CORPORATIONS.
Section 1. Corporations without banking powers may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws.
Section 2. No municipal corporation shall take private property for public use, against the consent of the owner, except by jury trial.
Section 3. Cities and incorporated villages shall be organized, and their powers restricted by law so as to prevent abuses. [No county, city, town, village, school district, or other municipal corporation, shall become indebted to exceed five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein.] As amended in 1874.
Section 4. Banks shall not be created except as provided in this article.
Section 5. The question of " bank " or no bank " may be submitted to the voters of the State; and if a majority of all the votes cast shall be in favor of banks, the Legislature shall have power to grant bank charters, or pass a general banking law.
Article XII.
Section 1. Amendments to the Constitution may be proposed in either house of the Legislature, and referred to the next Legislature and published for three months previous. If agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then the amendment or amendments shall submit them to the vote of the people; and if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, they shall become a part of the Constitution.
Section 2. If a convention to revise or change the Constitution shall be deemed necessary by the Legislature, they shall recommend to the electors of the State to vote at the next general election for or against the same. If the vote shall be for the calling of such convention, then the Legislature, at its next session, shall provide for the same.
Article XIII.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Section 1. The political year for Wisconsin shall commence on the first Monday in January in each year. General elections shall be holden on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November.
Section 2. A duelist shall not be qualified as an elector in this State.
Section 3. United States officers (except Postmasters), public defaulters, or persons convicted of infamous crimes, shall not be eligible to office in this State.
Section 4. A great seal for the State shall be provided, and all official acts of the Governor (except his approbation of the laws), shall be authenticated thereby. 7
Section 5. Residents on Indian lands may vote, if duly qualified, at the polls nearest their residence.
Section 6. Elective officers of the Legislature, other than the presiding officers, shall be a Chief Clerk, and a Sergeant-at-Arms, to be elected by each House.
Section 7. No county with an area of nine hundred square miles or less shall be divided, without submitting the question to the vote of the people of the county.
Section 8. [The Legislature is prohibited from enacting any special or private laws, for locating or changing any county seat.] See amendment adopted in 1871, as Sec. 31 (Subdivision 5) of Art. IV.
Section 9. Officers not provided for by this Constitution shall be elected as the Legislature shall direct.
Section 10. The Legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant, and also the manner of filling the vacancy, where no provision is made for that purpose in this Constitution.
Article XIV.
SCHEDULE.
Section 1. All rights under the Territorial government are continued under the State government. Territorial processes are valid after the State is admitted into the Union.
Section 2. Existing laws of the Territory of Wisconsin not repugnant to this Constitution shall remain in force until they expire by limitation or are altered or repealed.
Section 3. All fines, penalties or forfeitures accruing to the Territory of Wisconsin shall inure to the use of the State.
Section 4. Territorial recognizance's, bonds and public property shall pass to and be vested in the State. Criminal prosecutions, offenses committed against the laws, and all actions at law and suits in equity in the Territory of Wisconsin shall be contained in and prosecuted by the State.
Section 5. Officers holding under authority of the United States or of the Territory of Wisconsin shall continue in office until superseded by State authority.
Section 6. The first session of the State Legislature shall commence on the first Monday in June next, and shall be held at the village of Madison, which shall be and remain the seat of government until otherwise provided by law.
Section 7. Existing county and town officers shall hold their offices until the Legislature of the State shall provide for the holding of elections to fill such offices.
Section 8. A copy of this Constitution shall be transmitted to the President of the United States to be laid before Congress at its present session.
Section 9. This Constitution shall be submitted to the vote of the people for ratification or rejection on the second Monday in March next. If ratified, an election shall be held for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Attorney General, members of the State Legislature and members of Congress, on the second Monday of May next.
Section 10. [Omitted. See Section 1, Chapter 3, Acts of Extra Session of 1878.]
Section 11. The several elections provided for in this Article shall be conducted according to the existing laws of the Territory of Wisconsin.
Section 12. [Omitted. See Section 1, Chapter 3, Acts of Extra Session of 1878.]
Section 13. The common law in force in the Territory of Wisconsin shall continue in force in the State until altered or suspended by the Legislature.
Section 14. The Senators first elected in the even-numbered Senate districts, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and other State officers first elected under this Constitution, shall enter upon their duties on the first Monday of June next, and hold their offices for one year from the first Monday of January next. The Senators first elected in the odd-numbered districts and the
members of the Assembly first elected shall enter upon their duties on the first Monday of June next, and continue in office until the first Monday in January next.
Section 15. The oath of office may be administered by any Judge or Justice of the Peace, until the Legislature shall otherwise direct.
We, the undersigned, members of the Convention to form a Constitution for the State of Wisconsin, to be submitted to the people thereof for their ratification or rejection, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the Constitution adopted by the Convention.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, at Madison,
On the 1st day of February, A. D. 1848.
Morgan L. Martin, President of the Convention and Delegate from Brown County.
Thomas McHugh, Secretary.
Having thus briefly considered the general methods by which the present aspect of the county was produced, we may now more satisfactorily examine its special features.
No part of Wisconsin can properly be said to be mountainous, nor does it, over any considerable area, sink to a dead level. It presents the golden mean in a gently undulating, diversified surface, readily traversable in all directions by the various highways of communication.
Setting aside minor details, the State presents two general slopes-a short, abrupt declivity northward to Lake Superior, and a long, gentler incline southward. Through the center of this southward slope there extends a moderate north and south elevation, or arch-a low anticlinal axis-giving a southeasterly and southwesterly inclination to the strata on either side.
Rock County lies nearly on the summit of this low arch, or, to speak more exactly, its western line does; while the rest of the county belongs to the eastern slope. The general inclination of the surface of the county is, however, decidedly southward. The valley of Rock River runs southerly through the center of the county, and at the point where it leaves the State is only about one hundred and fifty feet above the surface of Lake Michigan. The surface on either side of this valley slopes toward it. This includes all the county, except the southwestern corner, which drains into Sugar River.
In the immediate vicinity of Rock River there is an extensive plain, RockPrairie, three to five miles wide, with prolongations extending further back from the river at certain points. There is also a similar level area bordering Sugar River ; but with the exception of these and some minor areas, the surface of the county is gently undulatory or moderately rolling. At a few points facing the streams there are abrupt cliffs, but the amount of surface too steep for cultivation is very small.
ELEVATIONS.
Having disposed of the salient features of the topography of the Rock River Valley, attention is naturally directed to its minor characteristics. A consideration of these will be confined, in this connection, to Rock County. Among the most instructive are the elevations of different points. The figures indicate the altitude in feet above Lake Michigan. By adding 589 feet to those of any given point, the result will be the elevation above the ocean.
Township 1 North, Range 10 East (Avon).-Section 5, northeast quarter, 272 feet; Section 5, southeast quarter, stream, 192 feet; Section 9, southwest quarter, 320 feet; Section 13, southwest quarter, 327 feet; Section 13, bottom of Galena limestone, 330 feet; Section 18, southeast corner, 318 feet; Section 22, southwest quarter, 245 feet; Section 25, southwest quarter, slough, 171 feet.
Township 2 North, Range 10 East (Spring Valley).-Oxford Station, 313 feet; Section 2, middle, east line, 350 feet; Section 3, north line of northeast quarter, 418 feet; Section 3, southeast quarter, 334 feet; Section 3, southwest quarter of southwest quarter, 314 feet ; Section 4, northwest quarter, stream 291 feet; Section 4, 338 feet; Section 4, southwest quarter, flat, 253 feet; Section 4, southeast quarter of southeast quarter, 352 feet; Section 9, center, 321 feet; Section 11, northeast quarter, 423 feet; Section 11, southwest quarter, 342 feet; Section 11, hill, 396 feet; Section 12, center, north half, 389 feet; Section 12, southeast quarter, flat, 283 feet; Section 12, outcrop, 301 feet; Section 13, middle, north line, 300 feet; Section 15 southeast quarter, 321 feet; Section 17, southeast quarter, stream, 215 feet; Section 18, southeast quarter, Taylor's Creek, 204 feet; Section 19. northwest corner, 220 feet; Section 21, northeast quarter of northwest quarter, railroad, 236 feet; Section 21, east line of southeast quarter, 405 feet; Section 28, northeast quarter, 296 foot; Section 33, southeast quarter, 268 feet; Section 34, northwest quarter, Galena limestone, 345 feet; Section 34, northwest quarter, summit, 394 feet; Section 34, south line southwest quarter, 3365 feet.
Township 3 North, Range 10 East (Magnolia).-Magnolia Station, 340 feet; Section 6, middle, west line, northwest quarter, 354 feet; Section 6, middle, west line, 285 feet; Section 6, southwest quarter, flat, 286 feet; Section 6, southwest quarter, 309 feet; Section 6, southwest quarter, Allen's Creek, 278 feet: Section 6, southeast quarter. 360 feet; Section 7, southeast quarter, 433 feet; Section 7, southeast quarter, road, 323 feet; Section 7, southeast quarter, top of ledge, 450 feet; Section 9, northwest quarter, Allen's Creek, 292 feet; Section 23, northwest quarter, 339 feet; Section 26, southwest quarter, 384 feet; Section 20, southwest quarter, summit, 441 feet; Section 28, southwest quarter, 339 feet; Section 34, northwest quarter, 432 feet.
Township 4 North, Range 10 East (Union).-Evansville Station, 325 feet; Section 1, northwest corner, 321 feet; Section 1, northeast quarter of northeast quarter, mill, 238 feet; Section 2, northwest corner, 336 feet; Section 2, northwest quarter, 339 feet; Section 2, northwest quarter, stream, 288 feet; Section 4, northwest quarter, 379 feet; Section 5, northeast quarter, 379 feet; Section 6, northwest corner, railroad, 490 feet; Section 6, west half, marsh, 377 feet; Section 6, southwest corner, 427 feet; Section 7. northwest quarter, 442 feet; Section 10, west half Union village, 375 feet; Section 12, northwest quarter, hill, 412 feet; Section 12, near center, 298 feet; Section 13, northwest quarter, stream, 293 feet; Section 14, center, east half, 339 feet; Section 18, middle, west line, stream, 382 feet; Section 18, southwest quarter, flat, 368 feet; Section 19, southwest quarter, 391 feet; Section 19, northwest corner, 382 feet; Section 22 (est.), 407 feet; Section 26, southeast quarter, 334 feet: Section 26, near northeast corner, 389 feet; Section 29, center south half, flat, 367 feet; Section 30, southeast quarter, well, 402 feet; Section 30, southwest quarter, valley, 345 feet; Section 30, near center, west line, 3£6 feet; Section 31, northeast quarter, 383 feet; Section 31, northeast quarter, summit, 423 feet; Section 31, southwest quarter, 290 feet; Section 33, near center, stream, 352 feet: Section 34, near northwest corner, 400 feet.
Township 1 North, Range 11 East (Newark).-Section 1, northeast quarter, spring, 258 feet; Section 1, southwest quarter, 362 feet; Section 3, northwest quarter, 328 feet; Section 10, middle west line, 342 feet; Section 11, southwest quarter, 357 feet; Section 11, southwest quarter, hill, 379 feet; Section 13, west line, near middle, 313 feet; Section 13, southeast corner, 263 feet; Section 13, southeast quarter, flat, 193 feet; Section 14, northwest quarter, 305 feet; Section 14, southwest quarter, 331 feet; Section 15, southwest quarter, stream, 296feet; Section 16, southeast corner of southwest quarter, 244 feet; Section 16, southwest quarter, Coon Creek, 183 feet; Section 20, middle south line, ridge, 318 feet; Section 24, northeast quarter, stream, 196 feet; Section 25, center west half, 252 feet; Section 25, southeast quarter, 274 feet; Section 28, northeast quarter, creek, 190 feet; Section 29, northeast quarter, quarry, 222 feet; Section 31, center east half, 222 feet; Section 31, near center, 263 feet; Section 31, west of center, 275 feet; Section 31, west half, 249 feet; Section 32, center, 281 feet; Section 33, near center, 207 feet; Section 33, middle west line, 220 feet; Section 33, bottom of outcrop, 245 feet; Section 34, center ridge, 207 feet; Section 35, center, creek, 144 feet.
Township 2 North, Range 11 East (Plymouth).-Hanover Junction, 209 feet; Section 1T southwest quarter, 261 feet; Section 9, northeast corner, railroad, 225 feet; Section 28, middle west line, 395feet; Section 33, northeast corner, 342 feet; Section 35, middle west line, 412 feet.
Township 3 North, Range 11 East (Center).-Section 9, stream and marsh, 293 feet: Section 16, northeast quarter, 363 feet ; Section 16, center, 364 feet ; Section 20, northwest quarter, 400 feet; Section 21, center, northwest quarter, 389 feet; Section 32, northeast quarter, 354 feet ; Section 33, northwest corner, 339 feet ; Footville Station, 238 feet.
Township 4 North, Range 11 East (Porter).-Section 1, northeast corner, 284 feet; Section 3, northeast quarter, Catfish River, 196 feet ; Section 3, north line, northwest quarter, 2o.r> feet ; Section 3, southwest quarter, stream, 196 feet ; Section 5, northeast corner, 247 feet ; Section 5, middle north line, northwest quarter, 261 feet; Section 6, middle east line, 261 feet; Section 9, northwest quarter, 250 feet ; Section 9, middle east line, northeast "quarter, 260 feet.
Township 1 North, Range 12 East (Beloit).-Section 3, southwest quarter of southwest quarter, 196 feet ; Section 6, near center west line, 200 feet ; Section 6, southwest corner hill. 309 feet ; Section 10, east line, northeast quarter, 152 feet ; Section 10, northeast quarter, ISO feet; Section 10, near center, 273 feet; Section 10, southeast quarter, 200 feet; Section 10, south line, southeast quarter, 302 feet; Section 17, near center, 314 feet; Section 17, northwest quarter, 228 feet; Section 18, southeast corner, 225 feet; Section 18, south line, hill, 260 feet; Section 19, center west half, 264 feet; Section 26, northwest quarter, 193 feet; Section 27, near center, 197 feet ; Section 28, middle south line, 251 feet ; Section 28, Hyde's place, 233 feet; Section 28, summit, Hyde's, 275 feet; Section 29, northeast quarter, creek. 189 feet: Section 30, southeast corner, ?67 feet ; Section 31, center, creek, 144 feet ; Section 33, middle west line, 210 feet; Section 34, northwest quarter, Hanchett's quarry, 213 feet; Section 34. southeast quarter of northwest quarter, 201 feet ; Section 34, middle west line, 236 feet ; Section 35, southeast quarter, 161 feet; Section 36, near center, southeast quarter, 176 feet ; south line College Campus, 192 feet ; lodo-Magnesian Springs, 177 feet.
Township 2 North, Range 12 East (Rock).-Afton, 206 feet ; Section 7, northeast quarter, summit, 306 feet; Section 8, northwest quarter, railroad, marsh, 265 feet; Section 20, middle west line, Bass Creek, flat, 183 feet ; Section 21, middle west line, 206 feet.
Township 3 North, Range 12 East (Janesville).-Janesville fair grounds, 295 feet ; Janesville Station, 240 feet.
Township 4 North, Range 12 East (Fulton).-Newville bridge, 208 feet ; Edgerton Station, 242 feet ; Section 3, center north line, 251 feet ; Section 4, center north half, 232 feet; Section 5, center south line, 173 feet; Section 5, south line, southeast quarter, 284 feet: Section 6, northwest quarter, 240 feet ; Section 10, southwest quarter, 219 feet.
Township 1 North, Range 13 East ( Turtle}.-Crest of hill, east of Beloit, 405 feet ; Section 5, level, Rock Prairie, 217 feet : Section 9, northeast quarter, 227 feet ; Section 9, northwest quarter of southeast quarter, 225 feet; Section 13, southeast quarter, 330 feet; Section 13, middle south line, southwest quarter, 306 feet; Section 15, northeast corner, 222 feet: Section 16, center, 223 feet; Section 19, center, 202 feet; Section 21, middle south line, 228 feet ; Section 22, northwest quarter, 270 feet ; Section 22, northeast quarter, 280 feet ; Section 22, north half, near railroad cut, 302 feet; Section 22, bottom of Galena exposure, 246 feet; Section 22, summit of hill, 276 feet; Section 23, northeast quarter, 280 feet; Section 28. middle east line, 325 feet ; Section 29, near center, 218 feet ; Section 31, northeast corner, 211 feet; Section 31, north of center, 188 feet; Section 32, center north half, 229 feet; Section 33, northeast corner, 266 feet.
Township 2 North, Range 13 East (La Prairie).-Section 13, middle west line, 271 feet : Section 16, middle west line, 242 feet.
Township 3 North, Range 13 East (Harmony).-Section 2, northwest quarter, 344 feet.
Township 4 North, Range 13 East (Milton).-Milton Station, 293 feet; Milton Junction. 299 feet ; ridge south of Milton Junction, 318 feet ; Section 10, southeast corner, 216 feet : Section 22. center east half, hill, 375 feet; Section 25, southeast quarter, 307 feet; Section 26, southeast quarter, 303 feet ; Section 30, northeast quarter, 289 feet ; Section 30, northwest quarter, 255 feet.
Township 1 North, Range 14 East (Clinton).-Section 2, east half, 370 feet; Section 2, southwest quarter, 352 feet; Section 9, center, 373 feet; Section 10, northwest quarter, 362 feet ; Section 17, Clinton Junction, 364 feet ; Section 18, northeast quarter, 338 feet.
Township 2 North, Range 14 East (Bradford].-Hill west of Fairchild, 325 feet.
Township 3 North, Range 14 East (Johnstown).-Level of Rock Prairie, 316 feet.
Township 4 North, Range 14 East (Lima).-Section 6, southeast quarter, marsh, 243 feet; Section 13, northeast quarter, 307 feet; Section 14, southeast quarter, 316 feet; Section 18, near middle west line, 248 feet; Section 21, southeast corner, 301 feet; Section 22, Lima Station, 310 feet; Section 23, middle north half, 305 feet ; Section 23, west line, 308 feet ; Section 30, east line, 311 feet.
Rock County.
-The towns of Center, Fulton, Janesville, Lima, Milton, Magnolia, Porter, Union, the cities of Edgerton, Evansville, Janesville and the village of Milton shall constitute the first assembly district of Rock county.
The towns of Avon, Beloit, Bradford, Clinton, Harmony, Johnstown, La Prairie, Newark, Plymouth, Rock, Spring Valley, Turtle, the village of Clinton, the village of Oxfordville and the city of Beloit shall constitute the second assembly district of Rock county.
