DR. 1841. TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN. Sept. 18. For amount due William Walters for printing governor's proclamations for the years A.D. 1837 and 1838, Nov'r 11, For amount due William R. Smith for half For amount due Julius T. Clark for quarter For amount due Abner Adkins for services Jan'y 26, For amount due William R. Smith for half years salary as adjutant general, 75 00 Feb'y 18. For amount due John P. Sheldon for services locating university lands, 27, For amount due M. M. Jackson for half years 21, For amount due M. M. Jackson, appropria- salary as attorney general, For amount due N. C. Prentiss, appropria- Amount carried over DR. 1842. TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN. Amount brought forward, For amount due H. N. Wells, appropriation May 14, For amount due M. M. Jackson for quarter For amount due Edward M'Sherry, appropri- For amount due John Bracken, appropria- June 27, For amount due Julius T.Clark for half years July 19, For amount due John Delany, appropriation made to said Delany by act of legislative assembly, approved February 18, 1842, For amount due John Delany, for printing done by him for adjutant general's office, as per order of adjutant general, For amount due Wm. R. Smith, for half years 75 00 21, For amount due John Blount for services as For amount allowed Wm. R. Smith, appro- For amount due M. M. Jackson, quarter Sept. 13, For amount due Edward N. Foster, sheriff Oct. Amount carried forward, DR. 1842, TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN. Amount brought forward, Oct. 28, For amount due M. M.Jackson,quarter years salary as attorney general, cnding Sept. 26, 1842, For amount due M.M. Jackson for half years Dec. 12, 1843. Jan. 16, For amount due Joseph Ward, sheriff of 22, For amount due Michael Myers, sheriff of 8. For amount due George Messersmith, sheriff 30, For amount paid Green county for two au- 101 00 59 74 Feb. 17, For amount paid Rock county for territorial bond, (cancelled) 1842. 27, For amount paid Milwaukee county for ter- Dec. 16, For amount paid Grant county for territorial For amount paid Walworth county for territo- 156 24 For amount paid Brown county for auditor's warrants, 100 00 March 7, For amount paid Jefferson county for audit TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN, By amount of territorial revenue in the several county treasuries, as per territorial treasurer's report made to the legislative assembly at their annual session of 1841 and 1842, By amount returned due from Milwaukee county, as per returns for the year A. D. 1841, By amount returned due from Racine county, as per returns for the year A. D. 1841, By amount due from the following named counties, as per returns on file, for the year A. D. 1842: Amount returned due from St. Croix county, $754 05 CR. $1794 86 317 76 1071 81 130 00 1947 73 By balance against the territory, exclusive of the amount that may be due from the counties of Fond du Lac and Washington, from which no returns have been received for the year A. D. 1842, 1081 37 $5,895 77 [SEE JOURNAL, PAGE 46-"D."] A PROCLAMATION, By JAMES DUANE DOTY, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin: BE IT KNOWN: that, whereas, the act of Congress of the 29th of August, 1842, declares that "ro session of the legislature of a Territory shall be held until the appropriation for its expenses shall have been made ;" and no appropriation was made for a session to be held on the first Monday in December last; by reason whereof the legislature of the territory of Wisconsin was unable lawfully to commence its session on the said first Monday; or to continue it to any other day: And whereas, the governor of the territory has been this day officially informed that the congress of the United States has, during its present session, to wit: on the 24th day of December, 1842, appropriated the sum of nineteen thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars in and by an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the half calendar year ending the 30th day of June 1843," for the expenses of a session of said legislature to be held according to law during the said half year: And whereas, it is provided in and by an act of the said legislature of Wisconsin, passed in the year 1839, "that the governor of the territory may, as often as in his opinion the public interest requires it, appoint by proclamation, special sessions to be holden at such time as he may designate, not less than thirty days from the isssuing any such proclamation; and any such special session shall not exceed twenty days," &c. And whereas, a majority of the members elect of the said legislative assembly did on the 10th of December last, declare "that there are many important subjects deeply affecting the interests of the people, upon which they are now anxiously desiring legislative action :" |