The county commissioners met; the "license" question came before them.

The evidence

• “The next meeting of the commissioners was held January 6, 1840. At this meeting the "license" question came to the front, and David J.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/09-county-government.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 257 / book p. 235

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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