Senate Unpassed Legislation 1854, Docket 14175, SC1/series 231, Petition of Justin Jones

Petition subject: State printers Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858479 Date of creation: 1854-01-16 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas H. Russell, Boston; joint special committee on petition of Dutton and Wentworth Selected signatures:Justin JonesMoore CrosbyGeorge C. RandHervey UphamJames M.W. YerrintonJames B. YerrintonLoring MoodyRobert RobertsSamuel May Jr.William C. NellRobert MorrisJohn Andrew Actions taken on dates: 1854-01-23,1854-01-24 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 23, 1854 and referred to the joint special committee on petition of Dutton and Wentworth and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 24, 1854 and concurred Total signatures: 471 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 471 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: practical printers and others, [males of color], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Free Soil, Whigs, Dutton and Wentworth, printers of the state, Boston Evening Transcript, newspaper, White and Potter, Boston Daily Commonwealth Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 14175 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.