Passed Resolves; Resolves 1897, c.72, SC1/series 228, Petition of Charles B. Stone

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455151 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William L. Reed, Boston; committee on the state house Selected signatures:Charles B. StoneWarren R. PrescottGeorge G. BentleyMartin Gallagher Actions taken on dates: 1897-03-03,1897-03-04 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 3, 1897 and referred to the committee on the state house and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 4, 1897 and concurred Total signatures: 22 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 22 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, Com Maj GS Stearns Post 149, P.C., P. Commander, Q.M., 5th Maine Regt, [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: memorial tablet to Major George Luther Stearns, Civil War, military service, enlistment of colored troops, Governor John A. Andrew, Memorial Hall, state house, Grand Army of the Republic Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1897, c.72, passed May 14, 1897 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.