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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520837

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Leominster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Joel Smith
2. Timothy Lincoln
3. Frances H. Drake

Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-19,1855-03-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 19, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 19, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 87

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 44

Female signatures: 34

Other male signatures: 4

Unidentified signatures: 5

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [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

Additional archivist notes: William C. Nell's handwriting on many of the petition wrappers for this Act

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.