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Santa Clara was first settled by Fransicans in 1777; it became town 1852 a town in 1852; and received a new charter in 1867. The old Santa Clara Mission is of great historic interest. A fine boulevard, the Alameda, connects the town with San Jose. Municipal government is administered bv a board made up of five trustees. Populatioj 58,880.

Voters must be United States citizens, at least . years of age, and residents of the state for le year and of the town for six months, and ey must also be registered in the town. No one ay vote on town financial matters unless he vns real estate in the town to the value of $134 has paid a property tax of at least $134 within e preceding year. Rhode Island sends two senators and two rep-sentatives to Congress.

Rockford was first settled in 1834 by former inhabitants of Galena. Its name was suggested by the rocky-bottomed ford used by the Galena-Chicago stagecoaches before the city came into being. Many New Englanders moved into the new settlement, and in 1839 it was incorporated as a town and selected as the seat of Winnebago County, which had been organized in 1836. In 1852 the Chicago and Galena Union Railroad reached Rockford, and in 1853 a reaper manufacturing plant was set up here.