Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 1.djvu/271

CHAPTER XVI The first census of Wisconsin Territory, taken in August, 1836, showed the population on the west side of the Mississippi to be as follows:

In May, 1838, a second census was taken in the sixteen counties organized from the territory of the two original counties, with the following result:

In June, 1838, the bill pending before Congress entitled, “An Act to divide the Territory of Wisconsin and to establish the territorial government of Iowa,” became a law, having been approved by the President on the 12th inst. It provided that