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Petitions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Wilford Woodruff, and others petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 14: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550761], Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Petition to the Postmaster General of the United States, copy, asking for a post office in the Council Bluffs area, to be called Tabernacle Post Office. Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, and Wilford Woodruff among names included. Date of production not identified.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified

Collection on New Mexican territorial history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1509
Abstract

Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.

Dates: 1526-1924

Countries, visits and general--Brazil, 1916-1933

 File
Identifier: MSS 8680 File TSA_PER_122_1_2_424
Scope and Contents

Includes a copy of a peteition issued by the scouting association in Brazil to the Brazilian government protesting the regulation of scouting by the government. Contains a letter and Brazilian scout propoganda sent by a judge who was also a scoutmaster in Brazil. Dated 1916-1933.

Dates: 1916-1933

Documents and corresponding affidavits, 1838-1842

 Series
Identifier: MSS 942 Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Each folder containts a document, coded HR 27A-G10.1 or something similar, relating an instance of persecution, and is accompanied by anywhere from 7 to 61 affidavits.

Dates: Other: 1838-1842

Moses Franklin Farnsworth papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1678
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, record books, pension petitions, certificates, pamphlets, articles of incorporation, poems, blessings, poems, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Farnsworth's activities particulary in the Mormon Church. Included in the collection are letters from the fourth president of the Mormon Church, Willford Woodruff, patriarchal blessings, letters relating to Mormon polygamy, and a book recording the work done in the Manti Temple of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1870-1900

Food Services petition and reports, 1964

 File — Box 313: Series 7 [Barcode: 31197239259796], Folder: 28
Identifier: UA 1086 Series 7 Sub-Series 8 File 6

Friends of the Battalion, 2012

 File — Box 53: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644753], Folder: 28
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 306
Scope and Contents

Contains Friends of the Battalion articles of incorporation, by-laws, membership cancellation petition, correspondence, copied photo, and newsletter. Materials dated 2012.

Dates: 2012

William Adams Hickman petition

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310747]
Identifier: MSS SC 1288
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed petition. This petition is a "writ of prohibition" of John M. Wallace to the Honorable Charles E. Sinclair, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, by Wallace's attorney, William A. Hickman. The item claims that Justic of the Peace, Jeter Clinton, collected illicit fines from a Utah "gambling house."

Dates: 1859

John Steele and Hans Anderson letter and petition to Byron Groo, 1907 January 30

 Item — Box 2: Series 3; Series 4; Series 5; Series 6 [Barcode: 31197231564276], Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 3 Item 21