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Michigan Jackson Mi.
Proclamation was then made that notice of said election had been duly given, and that the polls of the election were then open for the reception of ballots.
The office of supervisor was that first in order, and there were thirty-one votes cast.
Here we have in township and county, which in extent are one, thirty-one votes cast at an election which was likely to call out every voter.
After the election there were adopted by the meeting some municipal by-laws, which had been prepared, for paying bounty on wolf scalps, and for the regulation of cattle running at large, after which the meeting adjourned, well satisfied with now having a local government of their
own.
The conamon council of the city of Jackson are not in such fear of wolves as to cause them to offer rewards for their scalps, but with them there is no more troublesome question than that of restraining cattle from running at large in the streets, and when the average alderman votes on the question, he is inclined to vote for the largest liberty; having in his mind the otherwise indignant voter who at the next election would most likely go for his political scalp, if he did not even value it sufficiently to offer a reward for it, as did our worthy pioneers for that of the wolf.
Jackson
Section 1
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