. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . refore important that all persons contemplating sub-scribing should distinctly understand^hat all talk before or after the sub-scription is made is not admissible as evidence, and is no part of the contract. Persons employed to
. History of Lafayette county, Mo. , carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns, and villages, together with a condensed history of Missouri; the Constitution of the United States, and state of Missouri; a military record of volunteers in either army of the great civil war .. . refore important that all persons contemplating sub-scribing should distinctly understand^hat all talk before or after the sub-scription is made is not admissible as evidence, and is no part of the contract. Persons employed to solicit subscriptions are known to the trade as can-vassers They are agents appointed to do a particular business in a pre-scribed mode, and have no authority to do it in any other way to theprejudice of their principal, nor can they bind their principal in anyother matter. They cannot collect money, or agree that payment may bemade in anything else but money. They cannot extend the time of paymentbeyond the time of delivery, nor bind their principal for the payment ofexpenses incurred in their business. It would save a great deal of trouble, and often serious loss, if persons,before signing their names to any subscription book, or any written instru-ment, would examine carefully what it is; if they cannot read themselves,call on some one disinterested who can-. History of Lafayette County. PIONEER EVENTS. THE EVOLUTION OF THE COUNTY. The first election held in the territory of Missouri was in October, 1812,and it was then divided into five voting or representative precincts; butjust how and when this sub-division originated, history does not district of St. Charles embraced all north of the Missouri river; thedistrict of St. Louis embraced all south of the Missouri river, except theold settlements of St. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau and New Madrid, onthe Mississippi river; and therefore the territory now constituting Lafay-ette county, was at that time a part of what
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