Petition for abolishing the county school superintendent office and creating town school superintendents instead

Mem no 49a

Petition of D.L. Bancroft, John Man and others, praying for the repeal of Chapter 129, of the Session Laws of 1861 entitled "An Act to Amend Chapter Thirteen (13) of the Revenue Statutes, entitled "Of Counties and County Offices"

4/2 Intro by Mr. Barrow H.C. Org. 1/3 rep back [illegible]

To the Honourable the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin

The undersigned residents of the State of Wisconsin would respectfully represent, that in their belief, the acts of the Legislature of 1861 creating the office of county supervisors and of county school superintendents are unwise and impolitic creating an additional expense which we are poorly prepared to bear, feeling assured as we do that we shall receive no additional benefit therefrom but on the contrary a disadvantage, as we believe it to be for our interest and convenience to have a member of the county board also a school superintendent in each town to represent and look after our interest.

For these, among other reasons we would petition you Honourable body to repeal said acts and as in duty bound we will ever pray.

D.L. Bancroft G.A. Hewitt John Ware F.F. Cleveland N.J. Gage Wm Simpson W.G. Scott J. Elmore R.W. Wells Ian Scott L.P. Reston N.J. Newton C. Wills I.L. Chandler Abel Wright Wm. Tompkins Jedediah Ammadon George & Howland Saml. Pebbles Homer Atwood James Titan Luke Roller [illegible] D.W. House Jaa. McElray Willis Sperry N.N. Taylor T. Carpenter

E.C. Hummack [illegible] Wells Robert Johnston L.G. Mattoon N. Carey R.C. Dodge L. Blodger Geo. W. Bly John Marshall O.A. Morse L. Geager Thom. Quinn John Noyes Wm St. Oliver N.J. Masse H.B. Wilcox A.A. [illegible] D.C. Brooks Newell Whitney R.S. Darmouds Reese Weisler Isaac Fowler E. Cuthbert Wm. H. Young E.M. Dodgson James Palmer Philander Cole James V. Vaughn Geo. W. Kirk Ira Albertson B.S. Crawford Harvey Hutchens Wm. C. Carrier Isaac [illegible] I.N. Randall JM Markle Z. Bern J.D. Preston LD Jackson A. Carter S. Wilcox BB Baldwin HC Babcock FB Moon AA Hubbard S Wint John Howard Simon Sheath Joseph Bardwell David Maul John Cochran Caspar Short J Wilcox Lyan Updike AC Dake Lewis Foster I.H. Lauren Oliver Harnby Geo Babcock Orson Greene