was repealed, and the county was attached to the county of Crawford. A number of laws were passed creating and changing the boundaries of towns. These are stated as a matter of historical interest to the different localities. In Walworth county the original town of Troy embraced town 4, ranges 17 and 18. It was divided, the west half being called Meacham and the east half retaining the name of Troy. At the same session, in less than three weeks, such was the dissatisfaction that another law was passed giving to Meacham the name of Troy, and to Troy that of East Troy. The towns of La'Fayette La'Grange and Sharon in the same county were created. In Milwaukee county the towns of Nemahbin and Ottawa were organized. In Rock county the towns of Johnstown and Fulton were organized; the north half of town three, range eleven, was annexed to Union; fractional sections one and two lying north and west of Rock River in town two, range twelve, were attached to the town of Rock; five sections in the town of Beloit were attached to the town of Clinton, and that part of town three, range twelve, west of Rock River was annexed to the town of Janesville. In Jefferson county the town of Oakland was detached from the town of Jefferson and organized separately, and the north half of town 6, and the two southern tiers of sections in town 7, ranges 15 and 16, were annexed to the town of Jefferson. The county of Calumet was incorporated into one town with the name of Manchester. The county of Marquette was created into a town with the name of Marquette. The county of Winnebago was formed into one town, the name of which was changed from Butte des Morts to Winnebago. In Brown county the boundaries of the towns of Depere, Green Bay and Kaukaulin were defined and prescribed. In Racine county the town of Pike was organized out of town 2, range 22, into a separate town; that part of the town of Pleasant Prairie comprised in fractional town 1, range 23 east, was annexed to the town of Southport; sec tion 31, town 3, range 22, was set off from the town of Paris and annexed to the town of Mount Pleasant; and lot 5, in section 9, town 3, range 23, was excluded from the village of Racine. Acts were passed authorizing the laying out and establishing eighteen different Territorial roads to and from the several points named in such acts. Acts were passed authorizing the construction of dams on navigable rivers as follows: On the Fox River in the county of Racine, on sections 2 and 11, town 3, range 19, in the town of Rochester; and in section 32, same town and range, in the town of Burlington. On Rock River in section 36, town 3, range 12, in town of Janesville, and on section 21 or 16 in town 4, range 12, in the town of Fulton. On the Milwaukee River, in section 23, town 9, range 21 east, in Washington county. Also, amendments of laws heretofore passed, authorizing dams on the Manitowoc and Menomonee rivers. The trustees of the village of Racine were empowered to levy and collect a special tax not exceeding five thousand dollars annually, for three years, for the purpose of constructing a harbor at the mouth of Root River. Congress having authorized the Legislature to provide by law that the offices of sheriffs, judges of probate, and justices of the peace might be made elective by the people, an act was passed that there should be a general special election on Monday, the first day of May, 1843, for the election of those officers. An act was passed to incorporate the Prairieville Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing flour and other commodities for market. The act passed in 1839 to incorporate "The State Bank of Wisconsin" was repealed. As showing the feeling of opposition to agitation of the question of slavery, which then existed, mention is made of the fact that a resolution granting the use of the Council Chamber to the Rev. Mr. MATTHEWS to deliver an antislavery address, received but three votes (Messrs. BAKER, CROCKER, and HUGUNIN), while the other ten members all voted against it. A like resolution, granting the Representatives' Hall for the same purpose, was the next day defeated in the House by a vote of 7 to 18. The receivers of the Bank of Mineral Point, appointed in 1841, submitted their report to the court in January, 1843, which showed that nearly all the assets, consisting of liabilities of foreign debtors, in Saint Louis, New York, and Boston, had been absorbed by attaching creditors, and that there was little or nothing left for the less fortunate creditors. In the latter part of the year 1843, the village of Platteville, was visited with that terrible scourge, the small pox, in its most virulent form. Quite a number of its most prominent citizens, in the full vigor of matured manhood, were victims of the terrible disease, and in numerous instances with fatal results. The whole number of cases was 153, which nine proved fatal. of Hon. STEVENS T. MASON, the last Governor of the Territory of Michigan, while Wisconsin was under its jurisdiction, and the first Governor of the State of Michigan, and whose name is inseparably connected with titles to lots in the city of Madison, died in the city of New York on the 4th of January, 1843, of suppressed scarlet fever, after a sickness of four days. The election for Delegate in Congress in 1843, was conducted on party grounds, so far as nominations by party conventions could make it political. The Democratic convention assembled at Madison on the 19th of July, and placed in nomination General HENRY DODGE, with entire unanimity. MARSHALL M. STRONG, presided. The Whig convention assembled at Madison on the 25th of July, and resulted in 27 votes for GEORGE W. HICKCOX and 17 votes for WILLIAM S. HAMILTON-Col. HAMILTON withdrew his name, and GEN. HICKCOX was nominated without opposition. The canvass was animated and resulted in 4,685 votes for General DODGE and 3,184 for General HICKCOX. The legislation of the paternal government at the first session of the twenty-eighth Congress, between December, 1843, and June, 1844, resulted in greater good to the Territory, than that of any former session, or of all the three next preceding it. An appropriation of twenty thousand dollars was made "for continuing the works at the harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin" which had been commenced under an appropriation made at the preceding session. This appropriation was placed in the general river and harbor bill, which association secured for it in the future its proper share of the fostering care of the government, which might be bestowed upon other works of a like character. Two separate and special acts were also passed, each having a single object. One appropriated twelve thousand five hundred dollars "for the construction of a harbor at the town of Southport" and the other appropriated a like sum "to aid in the completion of a harbor already commenced by the citizens of Racine at the mouth of Root river." The annual appropriation "for compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, pay of their clerk, librarian and superintendent of public buildings, printing, stationery, fuel, lights, arrearages of previous sessions and all other incidental and miscellaneous objects" was only seventeen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, that being the amount of the estimate furnished by the Governor. This was for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1845, and was in the general civil and diplomatic appropriation bill. Another act was passed of great importance to the town of Potosi, and to the improvement of the approaches to the banks of the Mississippi River, near that place. Section 34, town 3, range 3 west, containing 640 acres of valuable land, was one of the numerous tracts which had been reserved from sale by the Government in consequence of its supposed mineral character. Numerous settlements had been made upon it, and a large portion of it, probably |