The committee, to whom were referred the petition of Elisha Huntington, and one hundred and ninety others, of Lowell, praying the Legislature to memorialize the Congress of the United States upon the existing state of the naturalization laws, asking for such alterations therein as would allow of free colored foreigners' becoming citizens of the United States, report the following resolves.

At head of title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, Feb. 1841

[Boston, Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1841]

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House (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives) ; 1841, no. 17.

"Resolved, that there is no reason why a Chinese, an African, a Malay, an American Indian, or any other free colored foreigner, possessing the intellectual and moral endowments necessary in a citizen, should not have the same privileges as an Englishman, an Irishman, a German, a Spaniard, or any other white foreigner. Resolved, that the Congress of the United States be requested so to modify its laws providing for the naturalization of foreigners, as to permit free colored foreigners to be naturalized, on the same favorable conditions as other foreigners."--Page 1-2.

Signed at end by Geo Bradburn, Chairman.

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