Remonstrance against levying an additional tax to build a schoolhouse in Southport

No 1. Remonstrance Lowell -Laid on Table Feby 8.

To the Honorable the Legislature of the Territory of Wisconsin

Your petitioner would respectfully represent that he has been informed that a petition has been sent to your honorable body tasking permission to raise an additional tax of five hundred dollars for the purpose of building a school house in school district no 2 of the town of Southport Racine Co.

In remonstrating against the passage of such a law your petitioner would state that three hundred dollars has already been assessed for that purpose and is now in process of collection-and he can see no reason why so large a sum as eight hundred dollars should be necessary in so, small a district.

The amount of tax would fall with peculiar severity on a few property owners in the district, and if the proposed law should pass, your petitioner would be called upon to pay over $50 on his proportion of the tax all the living at least one mile from the proposed site of school house-and this at a time when county and town taxes are very high, the prices of produce low, and the general state of business renders it almost impossible to obtain money

in any way-

Your petitioner would therefore remonstrate against any law being passed by your Honorable body authorizing the laying of any additional tax in said school district. And your petitioner will ever pray &c

Southport Jan 27. 1847

H.W. Turner