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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11665842

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Kansas

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on public charitable institutions

Selected signatures:

1. John W. Scott
2. Alfred Gray
3. John James Ingalls
4. W.W. Updegraff

Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-25,1861-02-27,1861-02-28

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 25, 1861 and laid on the table and ordered to be printed and received in the Senate on February 27, 1861 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 28, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 4

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, printed, received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: The legislative assembly of the territory of Kansas, speaker of the house of representatives, chief clerk of the house of representatives, secretary of the council, president of the council

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Support and resources for Kansas, suffered, summer, one of the most severe droughts, hardships, severity and extent of the calamity, thirty thousand persons, outside resources, harvest, provisions and clothing, seed wheat, corn, potatoes, beneficiaries upon eastern liberality, dry grass, prairies, starvation, cattle, roads, food, appeal, office of the relief committee at Atchison, private donations, spring planting, extreme trial, severe weather, storms of snow, territorial relief committee, funds,

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, communication of the governor, referred to committee on public charitable institutions

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.