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10,250 acres in the Milwaukee Land District and an equal number [quantity] in the Green Bay District; the remainder is yet to be selected by commissioners recently appointed.*In words not figures.[of a few sections on each Land District].

Should this subject be placed in the hands of a few discreet & practical men, it is believed that the lands donated might be made to produce a fund sufficient to establish, in a few years, an institution which would be a great honor and blessing to the country. Why is this matter so neglected in this enlightened age and country?

One thirty sixth part of the whole Territory, in being the section numbered sixteen in each township, is set apart for the use of schools, [in the township]. These sections are reserved from sale by the general government and are to be transferred to Wisconsin whenever she becomes a state. School commissions are appointed in each town to take charge of the lands- to lease them for a term of years- and to attend to other matters relative to common schools. A tax is levied upon all the taxable property for

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