Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.256, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Brainard

<p>Petition subject: School discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670511">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670511</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Haverhill </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Simonds, Haverhill; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Brainard</li><li>James M. Goodrich</li><li>Elbridge Sheldon</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-21 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence </p> <p>Total signatures: 328 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 285 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 18 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 25 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, non voters, [other males], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.256, passed April 28, 1855 </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>