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WISCONSIN. 



A high-license measure providing for cities and vil- 

 lages of over 500 inhabitants a minimum of $200, 

 which may be worked up to $500 by popular vote ; 

 in smaller places the minimum of $100 ana maximum 

 of $400 have been established. 



Prohibiting the sale of intoxicants or the practice of 

 gambling games on agricultural fair grounds. 



Prohibiting farming out the care of insane persons 

 and paupers to the lowest bidders. 



The State University was voted $190.000 for the 

 purpose of replacing Science Hall, burnea in Decem- 

 ber, 1884, with three substantial buildings, and fur- 

 nishing and stocking them. 



A State tax for the maintenance of the common 

 schools, at the rate of one mill on the dollar of assessed 

 valuation. 



The State Board of Health was given greater 

 power. 



The Insurance Commissioner was authorized to sue 

 for and collect penalties and compromise judgments. 



For compiling, perfecting, recopying, and publish- 

 ing the war records in the Adjutant-General's office. 



Creating the new counties of Oueida and Forest, in 

 northern Wisconsin. 



To secure the payment by receivers of past wages 

 due to employe's. 



The salary of Circuit Court judges was fixed at 

 $3 600. - 



Fire-escapes were ordered to be applied to all three- 

 story hotels and factories ; and all churches, school- 

 houses, and places of entertainment are obliged to 

 have their doors swing outward. 



To protect the Ashing industries by regulating the 

 size of net-meshes and shortening the seasons for 

 catching. 



A stringent registry law was enacted for cities of 

 over 25,000 inhabitants. 



Women were granted the right of suffrage on school 

 matters. 



The manufacture or sale of oleomargarine or other 

 imitations of dairy products was prohibited. 



The official time of the State was declared to be 

 Central Railway time. 



Making telegraph companies liable for damages oc- 

 casioned by the non-delivery of massages Vithin 

 twenty-four hours of receipt. 



A special list of Union veterans in the next State 

 census, to be taken this year, was provided for. 



The new cities of Mayville, Cedarburg. Cumber- 

 land, Viroqurx, Augusta. Alma, River Falls, New 

 Richmond, West Bend, Whitewater, and Kaukauna 

 were incorporated. 



John 0. Spooner, Republican, was chosen 

 United States Senator. 



Financial, The balance to the credit of the 

 general fund, Sept. 30, 1884, was $938,567.15 ; 

 receipts during the following year, $1,193,272.- 

 58; total, $2,131,839.73; disbursements, $1,- 

 653,951.80; balance, Sept. 30, 1885, $477,887.- 

 93. Of the receipts, $733,195.57 was derived 

 from railroad companies. The balance to the 

 credit of the trust funds, Sept. 30, 1884, was 

 $142,397.84; receipts, $842,481.75; total, 

 $984,879.59; disbursements, $753,896.30; bal- 

 ance, Sept. 30, 1885, $230,983.29. The fol- 

 lowing statement shows the investments of 

 the trust funds : 



School $2,838.739 15 



University 225.672 95 



A gricultural College 285.447 48 



Normal School 1,296,981 89 



Total $4,646,840 97 



Population* The census taken in 1885 exhib- 

 its a gain of about 21 per cent, over 1880. The 



following table gives the results of this census 

 by counties: 



*Loss. t Not organized in 1880. 



Not separately computed, being included in Lincoln. 



Totals correct ; county figures subject to slight corrections. 



There are 806,342 white males and 748,810 

 white females. Of the population, 1,069,433 

 are natives of the United States, 265,756 of 

 Germany, 90,057 of the Scandinavian coun- 

 tries, 36,371 of Ireland, 32,731 of Great Brit- 

 ain, 21,887 of British America, 15,838 of Bo- 



