1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and o the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and te wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the ates; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, ty, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within ction the equal protection of the laws.

Representatives shall be appointed among the several states to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of à each state, excluding Indians not taxed; but when the right any election for the choice of electors for President and ident of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the Legisreof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, enty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in bridged except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number tizens twenty-one years of age in such state.

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or under the United States, or under any state, who, having taken an oath as a member of Congress, or as an officer of d States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an or judicial officer of any state, to support the constitution of d States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion e same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But nay, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such dis

The validity of the public debt of the United States authoraw, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and or services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not ned. But neither the United States nor any state shall pay

ARTICLE XV.

SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

unty lies on the Mississippi River, and is bounded on the Dakota county and the Mississippi River; on the east by the i, Lake Pepin and Wabasha county; on the south by Olmsted è counties; and on the west by Rice and Dakota counties. about 764 square miles, or 488,833.84 acres, according to the plats of the U. S. Land Office. The townships are twenty-four , those bordering on the Mississippi being fractional. owing table, taken from the records of the Surveyor General's s the number of acres in each township in the county:

Township N. Range W. Acres and Fractions.

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The general surface of the county, except the land bordering on the Mississippi, a strip averaging two miles in width, and the valleys of the streams, which have been formed by the erosion of running water, is a plane, or a gently rolling prairie.

DRAINAGE.

Streams are numerous, and their falls sufficiently rapid to afford excellent mill-sites. The surface is drained by the Great and Little Cannon Rivers; the north branch, and the north middle branch of the Zumbro; the Vermillion River;* Belle, Prairie, Spring, Hay, Wells, Bullard, Rock

* Sometimes called Vermillion Slough. It is formed, in the main, by an arm of the Mississippi River that puts out from the main channel a few miles below Hastings, and re-unites therewith about six miles above Red Wing. Foote and Warner in their recently published map of Goodhue county designate this body of water as a river; and there is no good reason why it should not be so called. It receives the water of the Vermillion River that comes down from Dakota county, and is always moved by a current. In the spring of 1868, when stage travel was interrupted by the washing out of bridges on the route of travel between Red Wing and Hastings, the mail and passengers were carried from Red Wing to

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creeks. These streams belong to three main paths by which that falls upon the surface of the county is conveyed into the

The southern portion is drained by the Zumbro and its ; the northern and western by the Great Cannon and its anches; and the interior and eastern by Spring, Hay and ks, and their numerous branches. Besides these, Vermillion er draining a large portion of Dakota county, separates and, which forms parts of the townships of Burnside and m the main land. There are no lakes in the county, and but

prings of cool, pure water, of the very best quality, abound very section. They are most common on the south or west uffs, where the green shale of the Lower Trenton Limestone ace rock. Good water is also easily procured in all sections nty, by sinking wells to a reasonable depth, except on the Magnesian Limestone bluffs bordering the Mississippi. This contains so many seams and fissures between the different t there seems to be an absence of living water in such localin ordinary striking distance of the surface.

SURFACE AND TIMBER.

owing information in reference to the surface and timber of al townships of Goodhue county, was obtained from Mr. . Hart, who has for many years filled the office of county and is, perhaps, more familiar with the general topography of than any other resident of it.

d.—(T. 109 N., 13 W.)

timber in the northeast corner of the township which covers sections, viz., section 8, of 9, of 17, and the south of 18. on 31 and part of section 32. The growth consists of red and ak, aspen, basswood, maple, and a few scattering pine. The le branch of the Zumbro, extends through the S. W. corner nship. In the N. E. corner the surface is somewhat broken. excellent. Magnetic variation, 9° 28'.

ove.-(T. 109 N., 17 W.)

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