Excerpt from History of Portage County, Wisconsin: Read at the Centennial Celebration, Held at the City of Stevens Point, July 4th, 1876For several years previous, uneasiness had existed in regard to the location of the seat ot'justice at Plover, the plea being that it should be at the business center of the county, which was Stevens Point. Frequent diseussions and agitations of the matter ensued, finally it was referred to the Legislature, which in 1867 passed an act requiring a vote of the people to settle the question. The vote was had, and carried in favor o'f Stevens Point, and the county seat was removed in 1869. The-t ounty buildings, a court house and jail of beautiful stone, were erected in at a cost ot dollars.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.