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1. Fragment of the header of a petition to the Detroit Common Council, urging for the enforcement of existing laws against the sale of liquor on Sunday, and for passage of further laws to close "all saloons, stores, and public places, such as necessity does not require to be kept open," as well

2. Fragment of the header of a petition to the Detroit Common Council, urging for the enforcement of existing laws against the sale of liquor on Sunday, and expressing displeasure with the Common Council's failure to heed previous petitions on the matter

3. Fragment of the header of a petition to the Detroit Common Council, urging for the enforcement of existing laws against the sale of liquor on Sunday, as the continuing sale contrary to the law threatens "the safety and existence of its government, as a similar spirit in the South now threatens the national existence