An act abolished imprisonment for debt and repealed all laws against the body.

The evidence

• “Act No. 37, approved January 12, 1838, abolished imprisonment for debt, and repealed all laws against the body.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/05-historic-evolution.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 133 / book p. 119

  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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