OF THE

TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN,

FROM 1836 TO 1848.

PRECEDED BY AN ACCOUNT OF SOME EVENTS DURING THE
PERIOD IN WHICH IT WAS UNDER THE DOMINION

OF KINGS, STATES OR OTHER TERRITORIES,
PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1836.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by

MOSES M. STRONG,

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

NOTICE.

AT the last session of the legislature an act was passed (chapter 285, laws of 1885) to provide for the purchase of certain copies of this history.

The act appointed a commission consisting of ROBERT GRAHAM, state superintendent; JAMES D. BUTLER, late professor of the University of Wisconsin; and J. W. STEARNS, professor in the University, who were authorized and requested to examine and read the manuscript of the book; and if they should be satisfied that it would when published be a work of merit and a valuable compilation of the history of the territory of Wisconsin, and of the preceding period to which it relates, they were to give notice thereof to the commissioners of public printing, who were authorized on behalf of the state to cause to be printed and suitably bound in cloth by the state printer under the existing contract for state printing, and cause to be delivered to the superintendent of public property, for the use of the state, on or before the first day of September, 1885, such number of copies of said book, not exceeding two thousand, as would enable him as far as practicable to make the distribution provided for by the act.

The commission appointed to examine and read the manuscript, made and unanimously signed on the 7th of May, 1885, the certificate contemplated by the said act.

Upon notice of said certificate given to the commissioners of public printing, they directed the book to be printed and bound by the state printer as required by said act.

The distribution of the two thousand copies, printed by the state, provided for by said act, was required to be made among the educational institutions of the state, school-districts having libraries, other libraries, the public institutions and societies of the state, public officers and to members and employés of the legislature.

The compiler has procured the state printer to stereotype the work and to print an edition for sale by subscription.