Passed Acts; St. 1845, c.214, SC1/series 229, Petition of Peter Macy

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670498 Date of creation: 1845-01-24 Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Wood, Nantucket; committee on education Selected signatures:Peter MacyGilbert CoffinMary Ann Miller Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-29,1845-01-30 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1845 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 30, 1845 and concurred Total signatures: 235 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 137 Female signatures: 80 Unidentified signatures: 18 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: To aid the petition of Edward Pompey Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.214, passed March 25, 1845 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.