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Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950598

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J.A. Cummings, Somerville; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Herbert E. Hill
2. W.E. Halladay
3. W.W. Sprague
4. J.H. Soule
5. George B. Clarke
6. George W. Burroughs
7. Herbert N. Sargent
8. John Kennedy
9. James Daily
10. Henry W. Rowe
11. David B. Nye

Actions taken on dates: 1874-02-10,1874-02-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 10, 1874 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1874 and laid on the table

Total signatures: 42

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: soldiers and sailors in the army of the Union during the late rebellion, Col 10 Mass., ["soldiers and sailors in the service of the Union during the rebellion"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Against rescinding and annuling the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1874, S 26 adopted resolutions

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.