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Petition subject: State printers

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858480

Date of creation: 1854-02-01

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William A. Crafts, Roxbury; special committee on the petition of Dutton and Wentworth

Selected signatures:

1. Marshall P. Wilder
2. Horace B. Sargent
3. John M. Bradbury

Actions taken on dates: 1854-02-09,1854-02-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1854 and referred to the special committee on the petition of Dutton and Wentworth and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1854 and concurred

Total signatures: 31

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 31

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Free Soil, Whigs, Dutton and Wentworth, printers of the state, Boston Evening Transcript, newspaper, White and Potter, Boston Daily Commonwealth

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 14175

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.