Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.256, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Brainard

Petition subject: School discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670511 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Haverhill Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Simonds, Haverhill; committee on education Selected signatures:Samuel BrainardJames M. GoodrichElbridge Sheldon Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-21 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1855 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence Total signatures: 328 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 285 Other male signatures: 18 Unidentified signatures: 25 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, non voters, [other males], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.256, passed April 28, 1855 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.