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Washington Co. Dec. 1, 1841

To the Honorable Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin

Your petitioners respectfully state that there is such a number of Germans in the County of Washington as to fill entire school and road districts without an American born amongst them. We, the inhabitants of the County of Washington, therefore respectfully ask of your honorable body, to pass a law, entitling those Germans to hold the offices of overseers of highways and school district officers.

We remain, as in duty bound etc.

Frederick W. Horn
Peter Burch
Martin Schreiber
Myone Heuer
Benjamin Reybou
Friedrick Prahl
Winfor Mather
Martin Senite
Carl Klug
Friedrich Lathrow
Johann Bartelt
Ernst Wilbrat
Earl Klug
Michael Bellin
Johannes Swift
Carl Wilke
Joachim Depvorn
[illegible]
Auguts Reidell