1st Session. MEMORIAL OF A NUMBER OF CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, REMONSTRATING Against the passage of the bill (S. 378) "to amend and continue in force the acts to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington." JULY 16, 1840. To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: The undersigned, resident inhabitants of the city of Washington, being citizens of the United States, respectfully remonstrate against the passage of the bill reported in the Senate of the United States, during the last month, entitled "A bill to amend and continue in force the act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington," or of any bill containing some of the provisions which are embraced in that bill. If the undersigned supposed there was time, during the brief remainder of the present session, for Congress to act on the numerous details of a new charter for the city, they would respectfully recommend such leading features as they think their charter of government ought to imbody; but as they presume that Congress cannot now spare from the many subjects of national concern which press upon its attention, the time requisite for maturing a new charter, they will defer to the next session the submission of their views at large, and content themselves with merely protesting, as they now most respectfully do, against the passage of the bill above referred to. WASHINGTON, July 10, 1840. W. A. Bradley John Shaw Thos. Owen William Digges Thos. Collins John W. Ferguson Rezin Beck Richard McClosky S. G. Kneller & Co. E. H. Roper John Bates Frederick Bates Samuel Wroe Florence S. McCarthy Wm. Woodward Anthony Wagoner Wm. B. Laub J. T. Ryon & Co. J. H. T. Werner B. L. Jackson W. H. Stanford Wm. Easby Samuel White John W. Byram Charles Cumberland John Cumberland Alexander Maitland Wm. Dixon A. G. Herold Richard Hendley, jr. John Hoover Wm. H. Harrover George Lipscomb Joseph Smith James Baker William McAbie John W. Dexter Thos. Mooney Alexander McGonegal Henry Robey W. G. Howison Wm. F. Bender J. Francis Callan Alexander McWilliams Robert B. Boyd A. Addison G. Barnhill John Waters Samuel Farnler S. Hyatt Franck Taylor William Stewart W. Browne Wm. Cooper, Jr. B. O. Shekell Allison Nailor C. W. Boteler |