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To the Honourable Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin.
The undersigned inhabitants of the village of Rochester, Racine County respectfully ask your honourable body to grant corporate powers to Orrin Wright, Seth Warner, Levi Godfrey, Kiland S. Balbard, George W. Taggart, Philo Belden, Horace Frost, George Hill, Wm Gates, Abel Whitman, Peter Campbell, John A. Bloomer, Solomon Blood, Henry Cady, Tyler Caldwell, George W. Gamble, and Richard E. Etan, such as will enable them to hold lands and dispose of the same for cemetary purposes with other suitable and proper powers in the premises.
Rochester, Dec. 21st 1846
B.P. VanCourt Matthias H. Ogden HW Ogden Wm Ogden K. Henry E Van Zalin Goe. W. Taggart PS Graves Wm Hambright Stacey E Margrem SB Lambuston Wm Gates David F. Stoll H.S. Aulbrin Geo Hill Alexander Hutchinson John Mitchell G.B. Dickinson Thomas Bowen Tyler Caldwell Richard E. Etan Abial Whitman J. Jones [illegible] Bullis Thomas Hackney Seth Warner