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To the Hon. J. T. Herrick,
Judge of the 19th Judicial District, State of Kas.

We, the undersigned electors, of Sun City. Barber county, Kansas, do hereby respectfully petition your honor to declare said town incorporated under the laws of the State of Kansas, as a city of the third class, by the name and style of the City of Sun, with the following described boundaries, to wit:

Beginning at the section corner at the northeast corner of section one (1), township thirty-one (31), south of range fifteen (15), west, thence west along said section line two miles, thence south one mile, thence east two miles, thence north one mile to place of beginning, intending to incude sections one and two in said township and range.

We hereby certify that the number of per-sons within said boundaries exceeds two hundred and fifty and is less than two thousand. Viz: Two hundred and seventy.

We would also petition you to appoint T. P. Witaker, Dan Cornue and Louis Lockert as judges. F. N. Salyers, and J. J. Miles as Clerks, and T. H. Caallison, J. V. Fishburn and H. E. Van Trees as canvassers of the first election for officers of said corporation: and we would ever pray.

PETITIONERS.

Robt. A. Neff, editor Sun City Union
F. J. Saunders, merchant
P. A. Whitaker, liveryman
T. P. Whitaker, hotel
H. E. Van Trees, attorney
J. R. Lamport, merchant
Geo. N. Neff, harness and saddlery
F. N. Salyer, druggist
T. B. Reynolds, liveryman
J. G. Taylor, artist
H. L. Salyer
Capt. Prater
J. P. Jayne
Aleck Shields, carpenter and builder
Louis Bisantz, dealer in hardware
W. E. Fulton, proprietor restaurant
R. Markham
Jacob Meries, merchant
Jacob R. Cornue
C. E. Washburn, billiard hall
James J. Miles, hotel
John V. Fishburn, notary public
Joseph Daizell
W. H. Dorsett, grocer
A. M. Harris
E. A. McMichael
I. L. Frymyer
W. H. Taylor
J. M. Bush
J. A. Mason
Peter J. Mertes, boot and shoe maker
F. M. Rice
Bridge Strode, boot and shoe maker
? C. Tripp
J. H. Rice
J. R. Smith, M. D.
Geo. W. Hall
Jos. A. Siddail, carpenter
Jos. J. Stout, blacksmith
W. A. Campbell, real estate agent
C. H. Douglass, merchant
P. B Ayers, attorney
Jesse Twity
John Moran, blacksmith
Sidney J. Graham, carpenter
J. P. Murphy
Louis Lockert

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