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Petition subject: Taxation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950605

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Taylor, Suffolk; committee on taxation

Selected signatures:

1. E. Worthen James
2. Dennis O'Connor
3. George I. Hoitt
4. Samuel C. Hayes
5. Thomas H. Freeman

Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-09,1879-01-10

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 9, 1879 and referred to the committee on taxation and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 10, 1879 and concurred

Total signatures: 14

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: that the qualification for voting by the payment of a poll tax be abolished, political morality, violation of the spirit and even the letter of the 14th amendment, constitution, representation

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action

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.