Petition of Sally Burr to the Massachusetts General Court

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts                     

The subscriber respectfully represents that she is a member of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians, that she is in feeble health and unable comfortably to maintain herself.  She, therefore, prays that the sum of one hundred dollars may be granted annually for her benefit, and that the same be made payable to the Guardian of said tribe and by him expended for her benefit.