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Public Lands
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The public lands in Wisconsin are, as elsewhere in the [illegible] surveyed into townships six miles squre each, and sub divided into sections of one mile square, or six hundred and forty acres. The townships are numbered from the base line, which is the south line of the Territory, and the ranges of townships are numbered east and west from a line in the Mineral Point district running between the counties of Grant and Iowa, called the Fourth Principal Meridian. Thus Milwaukee is said to be in Township number seven north, and in Range number twenty two east; and Cassville is in township number three north, and in range number five west of the Fourth Principal Meridian.

The sections in each township are numbered from one to thirty six, beginning at the north east corner, and running west west to number six; then back to number twelve, and so on alternately as is more clearly exhibited in the following figure

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