Rock County expended $5,000 for the support of the poor.

The evidence

• “$4,000 ; in 1859, $5,000 ; in 1860, $4,000 ; in 1861, $4,500 ; in 1862, $4,600 ; in 1863, $5,600 ;- in 1864, $6,000 ; in 1865, $7,000 ; in 1866, $6,000 ; in 1867, $6,000 ; in 1868, $9,000 ; in 1869, $10,000 ; in 1870, $8,000 ; in 1871, 1872, 1873, $9,000 each year ; in 1874 and 1875, $8,000 each, and in 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879, $9,000 each year. A little more than one-half of these sums have been expended on an average at the Poor House, and the remainder for the relief of indigent persons in the county.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/11-rock-county-ch05-press-institutions-tragedy.md, PDF p. 409 / book p. 413

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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