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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500501

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William L. Reed, Boston; committee on the state house

Selected signatures:

1. Mark C. London
2. Robert A. Bell
3. John J.H. Snow
4. William H. Rich
5. Samuel Washington
6. William Williamson
7. Henry C. Comish

Actions taken on dates: 1897-03-03,1897-03-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 3, 1897 and referred to the committee on the state house and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 4, 1897 and concurred

Total signatures: 28

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, post no.134 Dept of Mass G.A.R. Boston Mass, Comd Post 134 G.A.R., S.V.C., Adjt., Past Comdr., Sergt Major, Post 134, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: memorial tablet to Major George Luther Stearns, Civil War, military service, enlistment of colored troops, Governor John A. Andrew, Memorial Hall, state house, Grand Army of the Republic, includes addresses

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1897, c.72, passed May 14, 1897

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.