Passed Acts; St. 1865, c.277, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Gridley Howe

Petition subject: Discrimination and places of public amusement Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520842 Date of creation: 1865-02 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Samuel Gridley HoweJohn M.S. WilliamsCharles FieldGeorge WheelwrightAlbert WrightJohn HaynesJohn WillardFrancis W. BirdGeorge StearnsJohn DwightCharles W. SlackJames WalkerDaniel ThaxterEdward TowneAdolph VoglHenry DuttonSamuel JohnsonDudley WilliamsHorace PlummerJohn Wilson Jr.Charles A.B. Shepard Actions taken on dates: 1865-02-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1865 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 47 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47 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: discrimination on account of color or race, admission, theatrical exhibition, public show, public amusement or exhibition of any description which by law is required to be licensed, theater, theatre Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1865, c.277, passed May 16, 1865 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.