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Petition subject: For Boston police to be appointed by the state

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11665839

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: New Bedford

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Watson, New Bedford; joint special committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Rodman
2. William S. Clark
3. Simeon Rice

Actions taken on dates: 1861-03-05,1861-03-06

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 5, 1861 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 6, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 222

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 222

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Includes "Pastor of the 2nd Baptish Church" next to a signature, religious, right of assembly, held subordinate to the will of the mob, intervention and protection

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw

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.