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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858514

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alanson Hawley, Springfield; committee on the judiciary; committee on federal relations; joint special committee on that subject; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. William F. Young
2. John Sawyer
3. John Taylor
4. Robert R. Crosby

Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-27,1855-01-30,1855-01-31,1855-02-03

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 27, 1855 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on January 30, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1855 and non-concurred and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 3, 1855 and non-concurred and insisst on the reference to the committee on federal relations

Total signatures: 47

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, sent, received, non-concurred, referred, sent, received, non-concurred, insist on reference

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32

Other male signatures: 15

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, others, [other males]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Very unique legislative path

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.