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To the honourable the Council and House of Representatives
of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin.

The Memorial and Petition of Leander Judson of the
County of Iowa in the Territory of Wisconsin
Respectfully sets forth

That in the year
1837. by an acta Resolution of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin
it was provided and enacted to this effect, "That the Secretary of
"said Territory be and he is hereby authorised to employ some suitable
"Person to draft a large map of this Territory, comprising the whole
"extent, from the latest survey and examinations: that he cause
"the same to be lithographed, and the boundary lines of the several
"Counties as laid off and established, to be coloured or shaded, and
"that he have three hundred copies stricken off for the use of the
"Legislative assembly."

That in pursuance of the provisions and enactments
aforesaid, [William B. Slaughter?], then Secretary of the Territory
aforesaid entered into a verbal contract and agreement, in the
said year 1837, with [Leander Judson], your Petitioner to draft
the said Map according to the provisions aforesaid.

That the Terms of the said agreement were as follows.
[Leander Judson] agreed to perform the work of drafting the
said Map in the manner prescribed by Law.

[William B. Slaughter] agreed to furnish said [Judson] with
moneys, from time to time, on account of said work.

[Leander Judson] proposed to do the said work of drafting, for
the sum of Two Thousand Dollars.

[William B. Slaughter] did not agree to this sum, but proposed
that when the work was completed, the same should be submitted
to the Legislature, and the compensation would then, more
properly, be determined by themselves in taking into view the
labor and value of [M^r Judson]s work.

The proposition of compensation was thus left open between
[M^r Slaughter] and [M^r Judson].