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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670503

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Charlestown

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

Selected signatures:

1. John B. Bailey
2. Sarah P. Baxter
3. John A. Nowell
4. Edwin Garrison Walker

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-08,1855-02-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 228

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 191

Female signatures: 30

Other male signatures: 1

Unidentified signatures: 6

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], ["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: Signed by David Walker's son

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.