Petition for declaring the Oconto River navigable

No 32 (A)

Petition of D. Toms and others of Browns County to declare the Oconto River a navigable Stream

Clark of Navigation [?]

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Jany 13th (?) Wm clark Chairman Reported by bill No 32 (a)

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Wisconsin.

The Undersigned Citizens of Brown County in said State represents That the main Branch of the "Oconto River a stream tributary to Green Bay, and Called the "Omannacagon" or "Little River" was not meandered by the Public Survey which was made under the authority of the General Government of the Lands lying upon its borders : That said River from its junction with the "Oconto River" aforesaid in Sec : No 30. in Township No 28 N of Range No 21 up as far as the North line of Township No Twenty Nine (29) in the Range of aforesaid, (a distance averaging 8 or ten Miles) is of an average width of the hundred and fifty feet and of sufficient depth to navigate Boats thereon with a draught of two feet, and if kept from obstruction would afford great conveniences as a Public Highway --

We therefore pray your Honorable Body to declare said River, between the Boundaries named, a Navigable Stream, and also to dedicate the same by a Public Act to the use of the Public as a common Highway --

D. Jones Edmond Onthraihe Frank Gonya John P. Arndt Ed Hicks A B Williams Alfie Pellon Wm Winegar Joseph Paranto James W. J in? Washington Parish Byron Winigan ? Nelson Langton

W. Lewins Chas Kitchen P. W. Caldwell P. White John W. Dunlop John T. Syudan ? James H. Home Daniel Butler O. P. Knapp C. S. Whulock Aust. D. Quindred William D. Colburn D. M. King Thomsa Bennett James McGuire Peter Burnett E. HOrt D. W. Bromley John P. Dousmave ? Wm Dicksom ?