Remonstrance against repealing an act relating to county offices in Sheboygan County

No 1

Remonstrance of David Giddings and 35 others, inhabitants of Sheboygan Co. against the repeal of an act Relating to the County affairs of Sheboygan County Approved Jan. 13 1840

M.C. Darling (1843)

Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary Jany 16 1844 John Catlin Chief Clerk

To the Hon. the Council & House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin

We the undersigned inhabitants of the county of Sheboygan, having understood that a petition had been presented to your honorable body, asking that an act passed and approved Jan. 13th 1840, entitled an act relative to the county officers of Sheboygan County may be repealed. Would respectfully remonstrate against the prayer of said petition for the following reasons viz, that a large portion of the permanent inhabitants of said county reside at the Falls or West of it and at a great distance from the Town of Sheboygan the county seat of the county, and it would prevent all of those citizens from holding office, in the county were they obliged to keep them at the county seat; and there are not voters enough in the Town of Sheboygan the county seat, to hold the several county-offices, unless we give them 3 or 4 a piece. And they are most of their men who have but little interest in the county, there being but one tax payer in the whole Town. And besides the law as it now stands can do no harm of a majority of the inhabitants wish to have the officer held at the county seat, they can elect such men as will keep [illegible]. We therefore hope the law will not be repealed until the county shall be organized for Judicial purposes.

Sheboygan Falls Dec. 28, 1843 [Signature Block]

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