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Petition subject: Taxation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950603

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles H. Litchman, Marblehead; committee on constitutional amendments

Selected signatures:

1. B.F. George
2. James White
3. Samuel W. Douglass
4. James Driscoll
5. John B. Willard
6. Nicholas Hochstuhl
7. Martin W. Tewksbury
8. Charles Fritz
9. George B. Ressler
10. Erdmann Schroeter

Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-28,1879-01-29

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1879 and referred to the committee on constitutional amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1879 and concurred

Total signatures: 47

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: for the abolition of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, political morality, unncessary hardship for the poorer classes, violation of the spirit and even the letter of the 14th amendment, constitution, representation, includes addresses, towns next to names including Boston, Chelsea

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action

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.