Memorial of Wm. Woodbridge, D. Thompson, F.E. Eldred, N.W. Brooks, Porter Kibbee and others, tax payers of the city of Detroit, praying for relief against taxes and other burthens in the Ninth Ward of Detroit.

[Michigan?] : [publisher not identified], [1861]

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Memorial to the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives from citizens of Michigan, which begins, "The undersigned, citizens of Michigan, and husbandmen, free­holders, or cultivators of the soil, residing in that part of the county of Wayne, which recently constituted a part of the political township of Springwells, ask leave, renewedly, but respectfully, to say to your honorable body, that they feel greatly aggrieved by the operation of the act of the 12th of February, 1859, entitled 'an act to enlarge the corporate limits of Detroit.' By that act, without their agents, your memorialists, and the agricultural district in which they live, have been placed under the rule of the municipal corporation of Detroit, and made subject to all its stringent, arbitrary and despotic ordinances, and unjust exactions; they humbly, but earnestly pray, that they may be relieved from these great and unjust oppressions, by a repeal of said act." (Page 1). The memorial is dated February 17, 1861 and is signed by William Woodbridge and 18 others.

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Memorial of William Woodbridge, D. Thompson, F.E. Eldred, N.W. Brooks, Porter Kibbee and others, tax payers of the city of Detroit, praying for relief against taxes and other burdens in the Ninth Ward of Detroit