Passed Acts; St. 1845, c.214, SC1/series 229, Petition of Harvey Crocker

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670499 Date of creation: 1845-01-28 Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Harris, Nantucket; committee on education Selected signatures:Harvey CrockerReuben AllenGeorge ClarkEdward Field Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-04,1845-02-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1845 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 5, 1845 and concurred Total signatures: 221 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 221 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Against the petition of Edward Pompey; chairman of school committee Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.214, passed March 25, 1845 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.