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Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935182

Date of creation: 1864-01-05

Petition location: South Yarmouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: M.S. Underwood, Dennis; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Levi Baker

Actions taken on dates: 1864-01-13,1864-01-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 13, 1864 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 14, 1864 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a citizen, master and part owner of the schooner Nymphas C. Hall of Yarmouth engaged in the coasting trade

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: vessel, seized and sold by the authorities of the state of Virginia for alleged violation of the search law of that state, 1856, test the constitutionality of the law, suit, never finished, expended sum, appropriation

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1864, c.34, passed March 22, 1864

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.