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Public Lands

There are three land offices in Wisconsin for the disposal of the public or government lands- at Milwaukee, Mineral Point, and Green Bay.

The Milwaukee Land District includes all the land from range number nine east, to Lake Michigan; and from the Illinois state line, to town ten inclusive, and also towns eleven and twelve in the ranges number twenty, twenty one, & twenty two. The first public sale at this office was held in the early part of the year 1839, and the amount of money received was nearly half a million of dollars.

The Green Bay Land District includes all the country north of the Milwaukee District, and the first public sale was in 1835.

The Mineral Point District lies west of the Milwaukee District, extending to the Mississippi river, and including all the "Mineral

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