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Petition subject: Abraham Lincoln legal holiday

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763627

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel J. Young, Boston; committee on legal affairs

Selected signatures:

1. Michael A. O'Brien Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1917-01-05,1917-01-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 5, 1917 and referred to the committee on legal affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 9, 1917 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: February 12th, legal holiday, Abraham Lincoln, includes address, Dorchester

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1917, H 64 committee on legal affairs - leave to withdraw

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.