To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Territory of Florida is Legislature assembled: Your memorialists, citizens of the County of Alachua in the Territory of Florida would respectfully represent unto your Honorable Bodies: That the county of Alachua is about 120 miles in length and about 90 miles in width, that it embraces the settlements of Pilatlakaha, [?] Springs, Nine Mile Pond, Fort King, Ratcliffe's Springs, Micanopy, Fort Crane, Orange Creek, Number Two, Cedar Keys, Wacasassa, Wacahoota, Fort Tarver, Fort Clarke, Fort [?], Newnansville and others, that the said county from its great extent, the number of settlements, the amount of population, the difficulty of communication, and the confliction of interests, suffers great and manifest inconvenience in the transaction of its public business, that while some of the parties to actions in the county courts and some jurors and witnesses are obliged to travel only from ten to fifteen miles to the present county site, others are compelled to pass over a distance of 120 miles and expend their time and resources to the serious detriment of their family affairs and interests for an inadequate compensation. That justice and the laws cannot be administered with such necessary speed and effect as they would be if the judicial and executive bodies of the county presided over a smaller extent of the Territory, that the aforesaid county is fast filling up with an industrious population, numbers having located within the last year, that it is already one of the strongest and most thickly settled portions of the Territory, and that from its peculiar local position and the increase of inhabitants the present county of Alachua imperiously demands a division, and the organization of a new County, That your memorialists would further state that at the last term of the Superior Court for the Counties of Alachua, Hillsboro [Hillsborough] and Hernando, the question judicially arose as to what was the southern boundary of Alachua County when it was determined that Fort King and all the district south of it, to the heretofore supposed southern boundary of the County was excluded from said County, according to the boundary line defined by the act of the Legislature. Your memorialists would therefore ask that those of them who labour under these disabilities may be relieved and may be admitted into the new county which it is hereby proposed to organize. That in view of the premises above stated your memorialists would respectfully suggest that the new county to be organized be called Seminole [Seminole crossed out and replaced with "Emathla"] and that it be comprised within the following described boundary line as most in accordance with the wishes of the people viz: A line commencing on the north bank of the Withlacoochee River at the line dividing ranges 18 and 19, thence along said range line north until it intersects the township line dividing Townships 11 and 12, thence east along said line to Orange Lake, thence along the western and southern margin of said lake to Orange Creek, and along the south margin of said creek to the Oclawaha [Ocklawaha] River and along the south shore of said river to the intersection with the range line dividing ranges 26 and 27, thence south along said range line until it intersects the township line dividing Townships 20 and 21, thence along said township line due west to the Withlacoochee River, thence along the eastern and northern bank of said river to the place of beginning, according to a map of the county hereto annexed. In consideration of the reasons above suggested your memorialists would respectfully urge upon your Honorable Bodies a speedy compliance with the almost unanimous wishes of the people in a matter which they consider of most vital importance. And as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray &c 1. Henry E.W. Clark 2. James Garner 3. B.F. Anderson 4. Edw. S. Aldrich 5. A.B. Noyes 6. John L. Branch 7. William Johns 8. John McCaffry 9. Thos. Prevatt 10. J.B. Barns 11. Jas. Pendarvis 12. F. Galbreath 13. Neill McNeill 14. J.J. Harvey 15. Isaac B. Blanton 16. George Low 17. William Gibbons 18. William Bertine 19. Lend. Wilson 20. Fleming Bates 21. James Petitt 22. James Kelly 23. R.B. Sanchez 24. William Mayo 25. Levi H. Carter 26. George Sharyd 27. C. Friebley 28. John M. Costello 29. Henry Hope 30. D. Reinhardt 31. Phillip Dell 32. Charles Gibbons 33. Henry Moore 34. Jno. C. Richard 35. George L. Brown 36. Samuel Russell 37. 38. B. Dixon 39. John Woods 40. H.C. Wilson 41. N. Loombull [?] 42. Light Townsend 43. William T. Barnes 44. James Hague 45. George MacKay 46. Hope Mott 47. William Mott 48. Jos. G. Bell 49. James M. Sparkman 50. Hugh Morrison 51. William B. Munden 52. A.B. Sanchez 53. E. Connors [?] 54. Thos. C. Ellis 55. Louis Aldrich 56. Charles Russell 57. W.S. Olmsted 58. John Helvenston 59. J.W. Pearson 60. C.L. Dell 61. Francis R. Sanchez 62. R.G. Livingston 63. Simeon Dell 64. S. F. [?] 65. William Curry Jr. 66. Jno. B. Baxter 67. Stephen Tison [Tyson] 68. Jno. Parsons 69. Jno. B. Standly [Standley]