House Unpassed Legislation 1879, committee on retrenchment - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of Frederic Dwight

Petition subject: Interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation law, and colonization Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763608 Date of creation: 1879-01-20 Petition location: Agawam Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James H. Bryan, Westfield; committee on retrenchment Selected signatures:Frederic Dwight Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-21,1879-01-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1879 and referred to the committee on retrenchment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 22, 1879 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: stay law, relief of farmers who are straitened by mortgages, homesteads, legal tender law, abolition of the monopoly of the Boston and Albany R.R., railroads, includes note and address Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1879, committee on retrenchment - leave to withdraw 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.