House Unpassed Legislation 1906, H 267 referred to next General Court, SC1/series 230, Petition of William L. Newton

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763591">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763591</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 L. Newton, Boston; committee on probate and chancery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William L. Newton</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1906-01-17,1906-01-18 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 17, 1906 and referred to the committee on probate and chancery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 18, 1906 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>Identifications of signatories: citizens </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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: race suicide, prevent discrimination by landlords against tenants with children, housing </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1906, H 267 referred to next General Court </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>