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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670511

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Haverhill

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Simonds, Haverhill; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Brainard
2. James M. Goodrich
3. Elbridge Sheldon

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 328

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 285

Other male signatures: 18

Unidentified signatures: 25

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, non voters, [other males], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.256, passed April 28, 1855

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.