Passed Acts; St. 1968, c.719, SC1/series 229, Petition of Robert H. Quinn

Petition subject: Racial discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455093 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Robert H. Quinn, Boston; committee on rules; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Robert H. QuinnMaurice A. Donahue Actions taken on dates: 1968-03-25,1968-04-03,1968-04-04 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 25, 1968 and referred to the committee on rules and received in the House on April 3, 1968 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 4, 1968 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: provision be made for preliminary hearings after findings by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination that no probable cause exists for crediting allegations in complaints alleging discrimination, towns next to names including Boston, Holyoke Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1968, c.719, passed July 19, 1968 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.