That throughout their whole Territory, from the Rio Grande to the
Rio Colorado, six hundred miles, there is no Court of Record, andno redress except that inefficiently administered in a Justice's
Court, for civil injuries or crimes.

That the population of the Territory is much greater than was
that of Kansas or Nebraska or Washington Territory, at the time
of their organization, and that it is steadily increasing, and
will, under the influence of the Road and Mail Bills of the last
Congress, be greatly augmented.

That there are no post routes or mail facilities throughout the
Territory, and that finally, we are cut off from all the comforts
of civilization--and that we claim, as a right, that protection
which the United States should everywhere extend to her humblest
citizen. Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that the Gadsden
Purchase may be separated from New Mexico and erected into a
separate Territory under the name of Arizona, with such
boundaries as may seem proper to your honorable bodies, and that
such other legislation may be made as shall be best calculated to
place us on the same footing as our more fortunate brethren of
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington, that we may
be enabled to build up a prosperous and thriving State, and to
nourish on this extreme frontier a healthy national sentiment.
And we, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

[Signed by more than five hundred resident voters.]