Petition for building a float bridge on the Fox River at De Pere

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[Mr An?a] [Nr?] 22 / B[?]

Bridge. De pere

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

The Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the Town of Depere in Brown County respectfully Represent that travellers are often subjected to great inconvenience and difficulty to procure a passage a cross the River at that place. They therefore humbly Request of your honorable body; that a law may be passed to authorize [William Dickinson] and others to build a float Bridge from Dickinsons addition of the Town of Depere to the opposite Bank of the River to be constructed in such manner that carriages can pass and repass on the Bridge, and Boats twenty four feet in width pass through. And that the said [William Dickinson] and his associates shall have the sole profits accruing therefrom, as long as said Bridge may remain sound or safe to cross on The Toll to be assessed by the superior Court of the County. And as no monopoly is intended they propri=etors are willing at any time to relinguish their claim or ownership of said Bridge to the County of Brown, upon their being paid by the County the amount of money expended in building the same.

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