To the Honorable Legislature of the State of Texas:

The undersigned citizens of Washington Co. not being residents of the territory of the proposed new county, but being fully persuaded that our fellow citizens who petition you, have suffered many evils, and knowing the great inconvenience and expense to which they have been subjected for many years in consequence of their remoteness from a county seat, beg that their petition for a new county may be granted them with the following described boundaries, to wit:

Beginning in Washington on the Western branch of the H&TC R. way, 3 miles east of Ledbetter, thence to Alligator Creek, down Said Creek to Turkey Creek, down Turkey Creek to Cedar Creek, down Cedar Creek to its confluence with the Yegua, thence up the Yegua to the mouth of the West Yegua. Thence to the S. E. corner of the Bynum League in Burleson Co. Thence with the East boundary line of Said League, continuing the same direction to the Milam County line. Thence with the line of Milam and Burlison [sic] Counties to the West corner of Burlison [sic] County, thence East with the Burlison and Bastrop County line to the S. W. corner of the G. Eschberger Survey. Thence in a direct line to the S. W. corner of the J. H. Bostwick League in Bastrop Co. Thence to the N. W. corner of the Muckey League. Thence to the S. W. corner of the David G. Green Survey in Fayette County, Thence in a direct line to the S. corner of the John Pain Survey, thence in a direct line to the point of beginning.