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Memorial of Farmers and Graziers of Philadelphia, 1830

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 140
Scope and Contents In Senate of the United States, May 24, 1830. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Marks, from the Committee on Agriculture, made the following report: the Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the memorial of a number of farmers and graziers of Philadelphia, and some adjoining counties, in Pennsylvania, report ...[Washington, D.C. : Printed by Duff Green, 1830]. 8 p. Imprints 4793.Concerning the petitioners' prayer that such alterations and additions to the duties now...
Dates: 1830

Handwritten Table of Contents, 1830

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 141
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Handwritten Table of Contents to a formerly bound sammelband of government documents, most from 1828-1830. 8 p, of which 2 are written upon. First page is presumably FFEP of the bound volume, signed by H.D. Gilpin. Gilpin was Attorney General under President Van Buren.

Most of the titles are represented in this collection of Petitions.

Dates: 1830

Memorial of the Estellville Convention, 1831

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 142
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Memorial of the Estellville convention, upon subject of a road from mouth Shelby Creek, Kentucky, to a point south of Lynville Mountain, North Carolina. December 13, 1831. Referred to the Committee on Internal Improvement [Washington, D.C.,] 1831. 7 p.

Representatives of 4 Southern Appalachian states seeking federal funding for an new interstate road.

Signed in print: Alexander Lackey, President.

Dates: 1831

Petition of Journeymen Tailors of Philadelphia, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 143
Scope and Contents Journeymen Tailors -- Philadelphia. Petition of 276 Journeymen Tailors of the City of Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Injuries which They Suffer in Consequence of the Present High Duties Upon Woollen Cloths, and Praying that They May be Reduced to 25 Percent Ad Valorem. January 23, 1832. Referred to the Committee on Manufactures., January 24, 1832. Printed by order of the House of Representatives. [Washington, D.C.] 4 p. Seeking to reduce duties on woolen cloths imported into the...
Dates: 1832

Petition of the Journeymen Tailors of Philadelphia, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 144
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Petition of the Journeymen Tailors of Philadelphia, Complaining of the oppressive operation of the present Tariff of Duties and praying for a reduction of the duties on Woolens. January 30, 1832. Referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 4 p.

Request to roll back tariffs to where they were in 1816 on woolens imported into the United States.

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Dates: 1832

Memorial of Citizens of Pennsylvania on Import Duties, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 145
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Pennsylvania -- Modify Tariff. Memorial of Citizens of Pennsylvania, Praying for a Reduction of the Duties on Imports. March 6, 1832. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 1 sheet (1 p.).

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Dates: 1832

Resolves from Maine Legislature to Reduce Tariffs, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 146
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Maine--Legislature of the State of. Reduce Tariff. March 26, 1832. Resolves respecting the Tariff. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 1 sheet (2 p.)

Signed in type by various officers of the State of Maine

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Dates: 1832

Memorial from Sundry Inhabitants of Philadelphia, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 147
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Memorial from Sundry Inhabitants of Philadelphia, Praying that the duties be equalized on Silks from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, and elsewhere, etc. May 30, 1832. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 1 sheet (2 p.)

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Dates: 1832

Petition of Merchants of the City of New York, 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 148
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New York -- Duty on Linens. Petition of Sundry Merchants of the City of New York, Praying for a Reduction of Duty on the Fabrics of Linen. June 18, 1832. Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 1 sheet (2 p.)



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Dates: 1832

Memorial of Manufacturers of Iron, of Philadelphia , 1832

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 149
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Memorial of Manufacturers of Iron, of Philadelphia, praying for a reduction of duties on Iron, etc. July 2, 1832. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C.] 1832. 1 sheet (2 p.)

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Dates: 1832