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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:
| Dubuque County | 4,274 |
| Des Moines County | 6,257 |
| Total | 10, 531 |
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:
| Lee | 2,839 |
| Slaughter | 283 |
| Clayton | 274 |
| Henry | 3,058 |
| Scott | 1,252 |
| Clinton | 445 |
| Muscatine | 1,247 |
| Des Moines | 4,605 |
| Van Buren | 3,174 |
| Cedar | 557 |
| Johnson | 237 |
| Dubuque | 2,381 |
| Linn | 205 |
| Jones | 241 |
| Jackson | 881 |
| Louisa | 1,180 |
| Total population | 22,859 |
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
