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the purpose of erecting school houses and of paying the incidental expenses of teaching. Already have a great number of school houses been erected in the different towns and school districts. The number of scholars taught in 1840 according to the census then taken was nearly two thousand.

A college has been commenced at a most beautiful location on the Twin Lakes twenty seven miles west from Milwaukee, under the management of the Episcopalian Church. The energy which has characterized its commencement gives promise of much future usefulness.

[At the session] The Legislature on the 5th of April 1843 adopted resolutions asking an appropriation of land by Congress for the purpose of establishing within the limits of this Territory institutions for the instruction of the deaf and dumb and blind, and an asylum for the insane. Whether Congress will grant this very reasonable request, remains to be seen.

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