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Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763658

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: [Worcester?]

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: I.W. Derby, Charlestown; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Henry Chapin
2. W.W. Rice
3. David Manning Jr.
4. Otis E. Putnam
5. Isaac Mason
6. Amos Webber
7. William G. Beckton
8. [Israel Matthews?]
9. Thomas Robinson
10. G. Chatman
11. Julius W. Jackson
12. Henry Johnson
13. Amos F. Johnson
14. William Bowers
15. Edward B. Gimby
16. Henry T. Cheever
17. George W. Gale

Actions taken on dates: 1874-01-15,1874-01-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1874 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1874 and concurred

Total signatures: 30

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 30

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: To rescind and annul the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1874, S 26 adopted resolutions

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.