Petition for seeking reimbursement for money paid to substitutes in the draft held in the 9th ward of Milwaukee

Mem No 9S

Petition of Emanuel Hannah & Jacob Leich 9th ward city of Milwaukee

2/3 Wilson Ref to Jud Com 2/5 Rep back witht amd. recom. to com on claims 2/12 Rep back with rec that the prayer of the Petition be not granted and put on Journal & are postponed until the 13th int 2/19 Ref to Select com consels of Wilson Morris & Hemmingway 2/24 Rep back by Bill No 147S

2/5 Rep back witht. [illegible] to com. on claims 2/12 Com P. until Friday 2/19 Ref to Select Committee Wilson Morris & Humphrey 2/7 Wilson Jud. Com

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10 Mem. No. 9S

To the Honorable Senate and Assembly of the State of Wisconsin in Legislature Assembled

Your petitioners would respectfully represent to your Honorable Body that they are citizens of the 9th ward of the City of Milwaukee and by order of the Governor of the State were drafted to serve in some regiment to be sent from this State & that the people of said ward were not credited with the full number, which they had sent to the war either through the negligence of officers of regiments appointed by Governor of this State, or from other causes: that consequently a larger number (although the people of said Ward protesting) than is right or in law, should have been drafted, were drafted from said ward, that your petitioners were among the persons drafted and employed substituteat a great cost to themselves; that one of the persons Emanuel Hurn employed so substituteNicolaus Huff and paid him therefore the sum of three hundred dollars, and other Jacob Leich engaged Carl Lan as a substitute and paid him the sum of three hundred dollars, that said two substitutes were clearly received and sworn into the United States service. But said substitutes with 47 others, were afterwards discharged by order of the Governor of this State on the ground of our drafts and because a sufficient credit has not been given. That your petitioners were forced notwithstanding the allegation of an over draft from said 9th ward, to report at Camp Washburn, and

either to be sworn into the service, or pay said sums for substitutes, that had the draft been for the proper number, they should have escaped entirely from said payment, that this taking them as aforesaid was therefore unjust and illegal, and that they were improperly compelled by the powers of this state to pay said sums for substitutes; that they are poor and have families dependant on them for support and can not afford to lose said sums, and that inasmuch as they were so wrongfully forced to pay by the powers of this State, they have a just and equitable right to reimbursement from this State's treasury, Your petitioners therefore would respectfully pray that said sums may be repaid to them by this State, and will ever pray.

Emanuel Hunn Jakob Leish