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Petition subject: Request to use chamber

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935291

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on public buildings

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. William Lloyd Garrison

Actions taken on dates: 1840-01-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1840 and referred to the committee on public buildings

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, president, corresponding secretary

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, hall, House of Representatives, annual meeting

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 750

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.