Garland Petitions For and Against the Repeal of "An Act to Restrict Sale of Intoxicating Drinks" (1847)
Maine State Archives, Department of the Secretary of State, Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta ME 04333-0084
To the Hon. Senate & House of Representatives in Legislature assembled,
The undersigned residents of Garland -- believing that the public welfare will be greatly promoted by the existence and operation of the law restricting the sale of intoxicating drinks, passed at the last session of the Legislature, respectfully but earnestly remonstrate against its repeal.
| George Curtis
William Sargent Moody Bailey H. L. Oak T. T. Clark Henry B. Miller Thad. P. Irish Eliah Stewart Lebbeus Oak Edson L. Oak N. J. Johnson Isaac Haskell Joseph True Bildad A. Haskell Noah Swett Wm. Reynolds Justus H. Jackman Geo. R. Coffin S. P. Sargent |
David Fogg John S. Figg William F. Haskell Lorenzo Oak Zebulon Knight Horace? Lyford John Treadwell Joseph W. Lyford Samuel W. Knight Alfred H. Skiner Wins Preble Lyndon Oak John B. Springall Otis? Straw Aaron Hill John Batchelder Josiah Bartlett Petatiah Came Hiram Lyford Giles Straw |
To the Hon., the Senate and the House of Representatives in Legislature Assembled:
Profoundly impressed with the conviction that the law of last sesion, entitled "An act to restrict the sale of intoxicating drinks," is wrong in principle, oppressive in detail, and calculated fearfully to increase the evils it was professedly designed to suppress, the undersigned, citizens of ______ [blank spot, not filled in] respectfully urge its unconditional appeal. February 1847.
| John Trefetheren, Garland
Charles Hayes, Garland, [Illegible], " " Seneca, P. Hayes?, " " John Pilsbury, " " J? Hodson?, Pitsfield James H. Gulliner?, Garland M. G. Flanders, " " L. G. Flanders, " " |
H. H. Gordon, Garland Samuel Curtis J. S.? Brown, Esq. James P. Copeland W. A. Copeland John Hayes John H. Prescott John Williams Jonathan Lyford Jonathan C. Davis D. L. Hayes Ruben Otis Merriam Flanders |