Petition.

[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1833]

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Petition from inhabitants of New Salem, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts legislature. The petitioners note that "a great proportion of the farms in many towns in the interior of the state, are subjected to mortgages mostly to corporations, and persons in the city, and trading towns, the yearly interest of which in many cases is equal, at least to one half of the net income, and the number is continually increasing, that this annual drain is constantly lessening the resources of those, who are subject to it, and exposing the equities of redemption to forced sales at every pressure in the money market, and subjecting the tenants to inevitable insolvency." (Page [1]). The petitioners request relief for those impacted, including a reduction in taxes owed.

Petition addressed to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives from inhabitants of New Salem. The petition is signed at end by William Whitaker and fourteen others.

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