Passed Acts; St. 1865, c.277, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Gridley Howe

<p>Petition subject: Discrimination and places of public amusement </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520842">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520842</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1865-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Gridley Howe</li><li>John M.S. Williams</li><li>Charles Field</li><li>George Wheelwright</li><li>Albert Wright</li><li>John Haynes</li><li>John Willard</li><li>Francis W. Bird</li><li>George Stearns</li><li>John Dwight</li><li>Charles W. Slack</li><li>James Walker</li><li>Daniel Thaxter</li><li>Edward Towne</li><li>Adolph Vogl</li><li>Henry Dutton</li><li>Samuel Johnson</li><li>Dudley Williams</li><li>Horace Plummer</li><li>John Wilson Jr.</li><li>Charles A.B. Shepard</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1865-02-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1865 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 47 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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: discrimination on account of color or race, admission, theatrical exhibition, public show, public amusement or exhibition of any description which by law is required to be licensed, theater, theatre </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1865, c.277, passed May 16, 1865 </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>