House Unpassed Legislation 1862, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of John A. Page

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018098">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018098</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1861-04-04 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Tracy P. Cheever, Chelsea; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John A. Page</li><li>Horatio Smith</li><li>Charles H. Nudd</li><li>John Newell</li><li>Levi Whitney</li><li>Isaac B. Rich</li><li>George W. Thompson</li><li>Charles L. Farwell</li><li>Francis Hamilton</li><li>William Evans</li><li>William B. English</li><li>George W. Young</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1862-04-07,1862-04-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on April 7, 1862 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 8, 1862 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 27 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27 </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: suitable buildings, care, comfort, shelter, subsistence, clothing, and schooling for any negros coming to Massachusetts from any state in rebellion against the federal union or Washington D.C., District of Columbia, teachers, appointments, instruction, ordinary facilities in the schools be extended to their children </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1862, 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>