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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Having now completed our sketch of the history of Lenawee county, so far as the territorial government and legislation was concerned, we may remark that after the passage of the act to enable the people of Michigan to form a constitution and state government, approved January 26, 1835, the legislative council seemed to almost abdicate their powers and to leave all future legislation in respect to Lenawee county, and all other portions of the territory intended to be embraced in the new state, to the state legislature, when organized ; that is to say, within the boundaries of the original territory of Michigan, as first defined and bounded by the act of January 11, 1805. The council had laid off and organized all that part of the territory west of Lake Michigan and east of the Mississippi river, except what was nominally part of the counties of Chippewa and Michilimackinac, into the counties of Crawford, Brown, Iowa and Milwaukie; and in that portion west of the Mississippi river they laid off and organized the counties of Dubuque and Demoine.
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