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Petition subject: American Peace Society

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520835

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Orin Fowler, Bristol; committee on public charitable institutions

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Brooks
2. Lewis T. Stoddard
3. George C. Beckwith

Actions taken on dates: 1848-01-29,1848-01-29

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 29, 1848 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and received in the House on January 29, 1848 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: American Peace Society

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: On behalf of the American Peace Society

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1848, c.23, passed February 24, 1848

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.