To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Kansas: We, the undersigned, respectfully ask of your Honorable tody to so amend the Act incorporating the City of Wyandot passed 1858 by the Kansas Territorial Legislature, as to exempt our farms a map of which we herewith present for your Honorable consideration. We would represent that the act of incorporation above alluded to was not submitted to a majority of us for our consideration and assent and that it was passed the Legislature without our knowledge, and that after its enactment a petition similar to this was entrusted to a member of a former Legislature some five years since who never presented it. We also represent that these farms are our Homesteads on which most of us, have lived for many years, and from which we derive our chief means of support and only certain incomes, and that the women signing [Page 2] are widows excepting who is the guardian of fatherless children whose lands are included in the city of Wyandot by said act of incorporation These facts being indisputable, we ask that our petition be granted for the reason that the said Act of incorportion is oppressed in that it imposes on us heavy municipal Taxes, while in reality by our isolation from the city proper, it is no advantage to us; that while by our State constitution the xxx One Hundred Sixty Acres is exempted for a Homestead from execution we being included xxx city limited to but one acre, and also because the the municipal authorities, while the said act is in being, have the power to force streets and alleys through our orchards gardens door yards and houses, thus destroying our houses of long standing which to most of us are very dear from past associations with the loved ones who made them for us.