Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.256, SC1/series 229, Petition of John B. Bailey

<p>Petition subject: School discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670503">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670503</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Charlestown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John B. Bailey</li><li>Sarah P. Baxter</li><li>Rebecca Bearse</li><li>Lucinda Mitchell</li><li>Ann E. Bailey</li><li>John A. Nowell</li><li>Peter Randolph</li><li>Samuel Fowler Jr.</li><li>Elizabeth Fowler</li><li>Jacob Sampson</li><li>Edwin Garrison Walker</li><li>Wyatt Lee</li><li>Samuel Fowler</li><li>Mary Turner</li><li>Thomas Tompson</li><li>Bathsheba Fowler</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-08,1855-02-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1855 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 228 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 191 </p> <p>Female signatures: 30 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 1 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 6 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["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>Additional archivist notes: [David Walker's son] </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>