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To the Hon. the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin:

The petition of the undersigned respectfully represents; that Abigail Hewit of the Town of Sox Lake in the County of Dodge, the wife of Julius M Hewit is the owner for life of forty acres of the South East Quarter of section no. thirty six (36) in township no. thirteen (13) north of range no. thirteen (13) east - The fee of said land after her decease descends to her children; to wit; Martha A. Hewit aged twenty (20) years, Roenia first Hewit aged eighteen (18) years & Sarah Jane Hewit aged fifteen (15) years.

That Julius M. Hewit is now, and has been for some seven years past laid up and totally incapable of performing any kind of labor, scarcely able to walk with the aid of a crutch and cane, by reason of rheumatism, from which, there is no reasonable hope that the will ever recover; that said land is mostly under cultivation and has had a small dwelling house upon it in which the family were enabled to live heretofore; that sometime in the month of December last, the house took fire and was entirely consumed, together with almost the entire articles of household