House Unpassed Legislation 1879, committee on federal relations - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Giles Dix

<p>Petition subject: Constitutional convention </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763635">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763635</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1879-01-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Peabody </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Russell, Boston; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Giles Dix</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-30,1879-01-31 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 1879 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1879 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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: Unique text, Andrew Jackson, tariff, state sovereignty, national sovereignty, federalism, George Washington, King George III, Lord North, Samuel J. Tilden, religious, Philadelphia, national constitution, federal constitution, articles of confederation, additional documents include lengthy letter, correspondence to Senator James B. Beck at Peabody, reconstruction, Daniel Webster, Calhoun, Virginia, Carolina, New York, national unity </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1879, committee on federal relations - 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>