Senate Unpassed Legislation 1871, resolution indefinitely postponed, SC1/series 231, Petition of Lewis Hayden

<p>Petition subject: Racial Discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763566">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763566</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George L. Ruffin, Boston; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lewis Hayden</li><li>H.B. Wood</li><li>Peter H. Nott</li><li>Elizur Wright</li><li>John T. Sargent</li><li>Charles K. Whipple</li><li>David Pulsifer</li><li>Lewis Gaul</li><li>John J. Smith</li><li>Walter A. Kezar</li><li>Charles Millett</li><li>George H. Hale</li><li>Henry Endicott</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1871-03-09,1871-03-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1871 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1871 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 49 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 49 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: others, [males of color] </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: that representatives in Congress adopt measures for the protection of lives and property of loyal citizens in southern states, civil rights, numerous lawless outrages, bands of armed men, [includes impressions of fingerprints] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1871, resolution indefinitely postponed </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>