House Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 4232, SC1/series 230, Petition of Francis Jackson

<p>Petition subject: Request to use chamber </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005535">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005535</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Jenkins, Andover; committee on public buildings </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Francis Jackson</li><li>Samuel May Jr.</li><li>Robert F. Wallcut</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-19,1855-01-24 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on public buildings and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1855 and concurred and determined to be inexpedient by the committee on public buildings on January 24, 1855 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, inexpedient </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, president, secretaries </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, hall, House of Representatives, annual meeting </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1855, Docket 4232 </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>