Senate Unpassed Legislation 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Furst

Petition subject: Taxation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763656 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles H. Litchman, Marblehead; committee on constitutional amendments Selected signatures:Joseph FurstJohn Divine[William Viehauser]Girard StammelJohn DahlEdward BurkeP.H. CortelloJohn M. BeckChristian Hohlfelder Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-28,1879-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1879 and referred to the committee on constitutional amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1879 and concurred Total signatures: 54 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 54 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: for the abolition of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting, political morality, unncessary hardship for the poorer classes, violation of the spirit and even the letter of the 14th amendment, constitution, representation Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action 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.