Abbreviations used
Date January 21 1871
County Carleton
Place Woodstock
Newspaper Carleton Sentinel
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
To the Warden and Council of the Municipality of the County of Carleton - We the undersigned Residents, Freeholders, Traders and Mechanics in the Parishes of Wilmot, Wicklow, Simonds, Peel and Kent ... feel desirous to facilitate the present contemplated Railway from Woodstock to Riviere du Loup .... And therefore pray your Honorable Body to take stock in said Railway if built by the valley of the Saint John River, and according to charter, to the amount of $ 100,000, to be made taxable on the property of the County, and to sanction a memorial to Governemnt to aid and assist by grants of wild lands, the Company who will build said Railroad and Bridges. (signed) Dennis McGAFFIGAN, Charles R. UPTON, Charles KEARNEY, Steven G. BURPEE, J.P., W.D. ESTEY, J.P., Robert REED, J.P., Aaron PERKINS, J.P., Isaac PERKINS, Richard WHEELER, Samuel COGSWELL, James BUCANNON, Joshua HARTLEY, Robert KERR, John D. BAIRD, Louis TRACEY, Wilmot BALLOCH, David BURT, John A. OWENS, Zeph MILLS, J.P., Rev. M. McDONALD, James SLOAT, Edward WHEELER, Thomas TOMBS, George FOSTER, Amos HARTLEY and 300 others. (see original)