An act was approved providing for the state enumeration of inhabitants required in 1855.

The evidence

• “The constitution of the State requiring the legislature to provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants in the year 1855, an act was passed by that body, approved March 31, of this^ year, for that purpose. The result showed a population for Wisconsin of over five hundred and fifty-two thousand.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/02-wisconsin-as-a-state.md, PDF p. 60

  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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