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To the Honorable Legislature of Wisconsin sendeth Greeting

Whereas we understand that a Bill has passed the Senate to legalize the Neenah Rail Road bonds or the issuing of them to the Chicago & North Western Company therefore we the legal voters & citizens of the Town of Neenah do most earnestly remonstrate against any act of the Legislature giveing validity to said bonds or the issuing of the same as the conditions of the ordinance on which said thirty thousand dollar bonds were voted have not as yet been complied with such an act of the Legislature we feel would do very great injustice to your petitioners. And as in duty bound we will ever pray.

Jany 28, 1861

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