Petition of Rebecca Davis to the Massachusetts General Court
To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Respectfully represents Rebecca Davis of Boston in the County of Suffolk, that she is a member of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians, that she receives from the Commonwealth annually the sum of fifty dollars, that she is seventy-six years of age, that said sum of fifty dollars (which is granted to her during her life) is insufficient for her comfortable support.
Wherefore, she prays that an additional sum of fifty dollars may be granted to her, the same to be payable to the Guardian of said tribe to be by him expended and paid for her benefit.
And as in duty bound will ever pray,
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Witness: |
Witness, Charles Endicott |
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Legislative Action: |
Petition of Rebecca Davis of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians for fifty dollars per year in addition to the fifty dollars now received from the State, Presented by Mr. Baxter of Boston. House of Representatives, January 23, 1867. Referred to the Committee on Finance, 1 W. S. Robinson, Clerk. House of Representatives. January 24, 1864, Reported back and referred to the Committee on Claims. Sent up for concurrence, W. S. Robinson, Clerk. Senate. January 25, 1867. Concurred, S. N. Gifford, Clerk |
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Docketing: |
No. 15. |
- 1. Deleted Text: sent up for concurrence