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To the Honorable Legislature the Senate and Assembly of Wisconsin.

Your undersigned petitioners-members of the Muskego Lake Fishing Club", would respectfully represent, that they have horror struck received the [lamennable?] news that your-honorable Bodies are inundated by Petitions for the passage of a Liquor Law, similar to that of the State of Maine, and that there is reason to believe you were in favor of such a law.

-Hon., the undersigned peaceful and industrious citizens of said state, engaged in the very lawful and respectable business of fishing, would humble remonstrate against such a legislative step, considering it a heavy calamity to the said ancient fishing institution and to the creatures enterworked to their care, for the following weighty reasons:

1. Because they do really believe, that is the case of such law being passed, the day population, living for 20 miles around the Muskego Lake, would, in want of any [illegible] beverage, Lake [recourse?] to the water of that Lake, in order to quinch their thirst, and as water is generally recognized as a necessary element for the fishes, you are aware that they are in imminent danger of getting deprived of this their first necessity of life, and although our fundamental laws recognize but the right of man to life, yet we from the world known benevolent impulses of your [humble?] hearts, you would may anonymously extend this great right even to the [illegible] beings enterworked by the scripture to the kind care of the Lord of Creation.

2. Because by such a drainage of the Lake, and congruent examinations of the [farming?] tribe, the undersigned companies would really be precluded from the extension of their right to the pursuits of happiness, so guaranteed by our Magna Cherta, to every citizens, even to your humble fishing petitioners.

3. Because first, in a Baked or fried? state of existence could not [illegible] but in a distilled or brewed kind of water, there being an old golden rule of medical diet, that fish, in order to be