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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670497

Date of creation: 1845-01-28

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Harris, Nantucket; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Nathaniel Fitzgerald
2. Henry W. Swaim
3. James H. Barnard

Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-04,1845-02-05

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1845 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 5, 1845 and concurred

Total signatures: 129

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 129

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Against the petition of Edward Pompey

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.214, passed March 25, 1845

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.