Passed Acts; St. 1854, c.371, SC1/series 229, Petition of B.C. Clark [Benjamin C. Clark]

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935187 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Otis Rich, Boston; several names from a committee Selected signatures:B.C. Clark [Benjamin C. Clark]William FreemanOtis RichOtis ClappEli ThayerMoses KimballThoms RussellSamuel PerkinsCharles A. WellsWinslow LewisHenry H. ChamberlinFrancis W. BirdAlbert WrightAaron JosselynGeorge P. BowersCharles SewallWarren BurtonBenjamin PondHiram BosworthJames ConverseHenry WilsonWilliam B. WashburnCharles HaleVelorous Taft Actions taken on dates: 1854-04-08,1854-04-11 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 8, 1854 and referred to a committee and received in the Senate on April 11, 1854 and concurred Total signatures: 62 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 62 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Emigrant Aid Company, association, to aid and protect emigrants from New England and from the Old World in settling in the West, homes, education, rights, privileges, free labor, property, Kansas, free state, slave state, Eli Thayer, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 20,000 immigrants, Missouri, Bleeding Kansas, Alexander H. Bullock, Edward Everett Hale, Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka, Osawatomie, Amos Lawrence Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1854, c.371, passed April 26, 1854 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.