Lawrence Public Library

Massachusetts Office of the Secretary certificate, 1956

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Massachusetts Office of the Secretary certificate

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Certificate (47 x 34 cm.). At top of the page is a facsimile of the original petition for city status for the town of Lawrence dated Feb. 11, 1853. The bottom half of the document reads: "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary Boston, March 21, 1956 I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true photo static copy of petition of the selectmen of the Town of Lawrence, dated February 11, 1853, praying that a city government may be erected and constituted in the Town of Lawrence; and that the same is on file in the Archives Division of this office. Witness the great seal of the Commonwealth Edward J. Cronin Secretary of the Commonwealth." The document is signed by Cronin and the seal embossed