House Unpassed Legislation 1878, committee on military affairs - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of George B. Richmond

<p>Petition subject: Military companies </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950530">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950530</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1877-12-10 </p> <p>Petition location: New Bedford </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hosea M. Knowlton, Bristol; committee on military affairs </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>George B. Richmond</li><li>Charles W. Clifford</li><li>George Marston</li><li>Wendell H. Cobb</li><li>John Wing</li><li>H.W. Wentworth</li><li>George F. Kingman</li><li>Charles B. Hillman</li><li>Frederick A. Washburn</li><li>William H. Allen</li><li>Edmund Anthony Jr.</li><li>William S. Cadwell</li><li>J. Henry Jennings</li><li>Edward Johnson</li><li>H.B. Clarke</li><li>John B. Shepherd</li><li>Joseph Buckminster</li><li>Rodney French</li><li>E. Thornton Jr.</li><li>Horatio Hathaway</li><li>Edward C. Jones</li><li>Robert T. Barker</li><li>James Taylor</li><li>John Hastings</li><li>S.W. Hayes</li><li>Morgan Rotch</li><li>William Phillips</li><li>William H. Sherman</li><li>Henry C. Russell</li><li>H.W. Parker</li><li>William Ferguson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1878-02-05,1878-02-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1878 and referred to the committee on military affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1878 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 69 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: ["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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Schouler Guards </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1878, committee on military affairs - leave to withdraw </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>