ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Marriage laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455136

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Cambridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Harry N. Stearns, Middlesex; committee on legal affairs; joint committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Hollis R. Bailey

Actions taken on dates: 1913-01-14,1913-01-22,1913-01-23

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 14, 1913 and referred to the committee on legal affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 22, 1913 and referred in non-concurrence to the joint committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 23, 1913 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizen, on behalf of the Board of Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States, chair

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Uniformity of marriage laws

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1913, c.360, passed March 26, 1913

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.