Author: White, Peter, trustee; Hart, Edwin, trustee; Sholes, Henry O., trustee; Butler, Daniel, trustee; Last, John, clerk; Whitney, Daniel, president.
Title: Memorial of the President and Trustees of the Town of Green Bay Wiskonsin [Wisconsin] Territory, Praying the Confirmation by Congress of the Act of the Legislative Assembly of Wiskonsin [Wisconsin], Incorporating Said Town. June 1, 1840.
Description: Washington, D.C.: Blair & Rives, printers, 1840. 1840. - Octavo, 9-3/4 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. A 2 page broadsheet, being the address by the president and trustees of the town of Green Bay "To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled". The top edge is lightly darkened with a couple of tine tears and a crease to the right corner. There is some minor insignificant foxing to the top and bottom. Very good.

Senate document, 26th Congress, 1st session, no. 504. "Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed".

Two years after Wisconsin Territory was formed, the borough form of government for Green Bay was approved by the territorial Legislative Assembly in 1838. Under this act the people of the town elected up to six trustees and a president to perform the necessary duties of levying taxes and making the improvements needed in the town. In the following legislative session adjustments were made to the law and were approved by the votes of a majority of the residents. Following this, the Legislature received a petition from some of the residents wanting the law repealed. Again a vote was held and a majority voted to retain their act of incorporation. In the document at hand, the trustees are requesting relief from a resolution introduced by John Pope, Chairman of the Committee on Territories in the House of Representatives, that would disapprove of the acts passed by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory. The document is signed in print by four trustees, Peter White, Edwin Hart, Henry O. Sholes , Daniel Butler and the President Daniel Whitney. It is attested to by the Clerk, John Last. Very good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; HISTORY; INCORPORATION; LOCAL POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; GREEN BAY WICSCONSIN; WISKONSIN TERRITORY; US SENATE DOCUMENT; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE; BLAIR & RIVES PRINTERS; 26TH CONGRESS; JOHN POPE; COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TERRI

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