Organizational records relating to bankruptcy proceedings, 1842.

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Organizational records relating to bankruptcy proceedings, 1842.

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These files consist of original papers created when the Wisconsin Territorial Supreme Court organized itself as as a bankruptcy court. Included are rules regulating proceedings in bankruptcy cases, samples of proper forms to use in filing with the court, court orders appointing commissioners and assignees for different parts of the territory and oaths of office and/or bonds of the same.

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