Passed Acts; St. 1934, c.61, SC1/series 229, Petition of Charles Forest Nelson Pratt

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455102">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455102</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Forest Nelson Pratt, Saugus; committee on insurance </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles Forest Nelson Pratt</li><li>Carl A. Woekel</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1934-01-16,1934-01-17 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1934 and referred to the committee on insurance and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1934 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: insurance companies be prohibited from discriminating on account of race or color in issuance of policies and bonds for compulsory liability insurance on motor vehicles </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1934, c.61, passed March 2, 1934 </p> <p>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.</p>