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Printed broadside, with numerous pencil corrections and emendations to the text. 42x21.5 cm (16½x8½").

The township of Mayfield was formed in 1855, in what is now southern Palo Alto. It was considered by Leland Stanford as an appropriate site for the University he was founding in honor of his deceased son, but the town refused to ban alcohol sales. Palo Alto, just to the north of Mayfield, was thus formed, as a temperance town, and home to the new institute of higher learning. The two towns co-exited, though Palo Alto was to gain the upper hand, and in 1925 annexed the town of Mayfield, and the two became one. This rare piece of Mayfield ephemera is evidently a proof or preliminary printing, with numerous pencil corrections and changes, including the date (slightly over a month's delay), some details of the work being done, the resolution number, etc. No copies of either the present example or a changed version are listed in OCLC/WorldCat.