Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.256, SC1/series 229, Petition of John B. Bailey

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670503 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Charlestown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on education Selected signatures:John B. BaileySarah P. BaxterRebecca BearseLucinda MitchellAnn E. BaileyJohn A. NowellPeter RandolphSamuel Fowler Jr.Elizabeth FowlerJacob SampsonEdwin Garrison WalkerWyatt LeeSamuel FowlerMary TurnerThomas TompsonBathsheba Fowler Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-08,1855-02-09 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 228 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 191 Female signatures: 30 Other male signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["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: [David Walker's son] 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.