Senate Unpassed Legislation 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action, SC1/series 231, Petition of E. Worthen James

<p>Petition subject: Taxation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950605">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950605</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Taylor, Suffolk; committee on taxation </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>E. Worthen James</li><li>Dennis O'Connor</li><li>George I. Hoitt</li><li>Samuel C. Hayes</li><li>Thomas H. Freeman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1879-01-09,1879-01-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 9, 1879 and referred to the committee on taxation and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 10, 1879 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 14 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14 </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: that the qualification for voting by the payment of a poll tax be abolished, political morality, violation of the spirit and even the letter of the 14th amendment, constitution, representation </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1879, S 152 refused 3rd reading - no further action </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>