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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858583

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Fall River

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jonathan E. Morrill, Fall River; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Arad Gilbert
2. George B. Stone
3. Caleb Cook

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-19,1855-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 19, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 188

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 188

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: ["legal voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.