House Unpassed Legislation 1862, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of James Fernal

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018100">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018100</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1863-02-10 </p> <p>Petition location: Rockport </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Bremner, Rockport; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James Fernal</li><li>S.P. Randall</li><li>Charles Knowlton Jr.</li><li>James Clark</li><li>Eben Pool Jr.</li><li>William Low</li><li>John H. Manning</li><li>Joseph Haskins</li><li>James Knight</li><li>Albert Sanborn</li><li>George Witham</li><li>Benjamin Knight</li><li>Edward Maguire</li><li>Joshua Tarr</li><li>Eben Blatchford</li><li>George Elwell</li><li>Joshua Sanborn</li><li>Lyman Pool</li><li>Edward Slocum</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1863-03-07 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and concurred in the Senate on March 7, 1863 </p> <p>Total signatures: 42 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred, sent, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, ["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: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: To pass a law forbidding any more persons of color from coming into the state of Massachusetts to become citizens of the state, Essex county </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1863, 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>