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Petition subject: Military companies

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935189

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George P. Clapp, Boston; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Lewis Hayden
2. Thomas Dalton
3. Mark De Mortie
4. Edmund Jackson
5. Edward Lawton
6. Henry W. Johnson
7. John V. de Grasse
8. Edward Ruhler
9. Nelson L. Perkins
10. Lorenzo D. Johnson
11. John H. Sterling
12. Michael Onley
13. William Mannix

Actions taken on dates: 1863-01-28,1863-01-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1863 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 24, 1863 and concurred

Total signatures: 17

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

Males of color signatures: 17

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: To strike the word "white" from section 1, chapter 13 of the general statutes, military service, [doctor, M.D. next to de Grasse signature], ["…in order that the state may no longer stand in opposition to the patriotic desires of any portion of her citizens who are willing to give their service and if need be their lives in the cause of the Republic."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1863, c.193, passed April 27, 1863

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.