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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670507

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Prince, Essex; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. John Bailey
2. Anna T. Bailey
3. Rachel Gilman

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 117

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 45

Female signatures: 51

Unidentified signatures: 21

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], ["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: One female is in the male column

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.