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RESOLUTION <br /> Ij <br /> July 4, 1833, the Marshpee Indians demand the right to <br /> 1 rule themselves and the right to live under the Constitution <br /> as all other free men within the confines of the Common- <br /> wealth of Massachusetts. That the Government of the State <br /> protect and cherish and to consider our people as useful <br /> members of society instead of being deprived of liberty and <br /> property; not to be alienated from the praying Indians, as <br /> it was done by the coming of the white man and the negro. <br /> Having theretofore being distressed and degraded, and <br /> robbed daily,we have taken measures to put our town officers <br /> to act instead of whites and having acquainted the. Governor <br /> of our affairs and resolution, he has nothing against our <br /> putting them in force. And now we would say to our white <br /> friends, we are wanting nothing but, our rights betwix man " <br /> j <br /> and man. <br /> And rest assured said resolution will be enforced after <br /> the First day of July, 1833. Done at the National Assembly <br /> of the Marshpee Tribe and by the authority of the same. <br /> DANIEL AMOS, President <br /> ISRAEL AMOS, Secretary <br /> �T <br /> I <br /> I: <br /> `Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- <br /> sentatives in the General Court assembled, and by the <br /> authority of thesame, as follows: `' <br /> Section 1. The District of Marshpee is hereby <br /> abolished, and the territory comprised therein is <br /> hereby, incorporated into a Town by the name of <br /> Mashpee . . ." <br /> May 28, 1870 <br />