Petition for allowing the school fund to be used to pay for plank roads throughout the state

To the Senate and Assembly of the State of Wisconsin:

The undersigned citizens of th County of Racine would beg leave respectfully to represent that, in their opinion, the general prosperity of the whole State of Wisconsin would be greatly promotoed, and the whole farming, mechanical and commercial intersts would be materially benefitted by loaning the School Fund, in moderate sums, upon good security, to aid in the immediate construction of Plan Roads upon all the principal thoroughfares throught the State; -- and as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.

JB Olsen Gunval [illegible] N.C. Kloed JS [illegible] Hellick Gundern Wm. Warren Even M. Tuley Andrews [illegible] E Wold A Landborg Blandborg N.C. Branson John Ellinger J Retz C Miller F May E. Pedersen E Gullicksen