Senate Unpassed Legislation 1871, resolution indefinitely postponed, SC1/series 231, Petition of J.B. Smith

<p>Petition subject: Racial Discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950591">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950591</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1871-03-16 </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George F. Richardson, Middlesex; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>J.B. Smith</li><li>Edward N. Kirk</li><li>G. Haven</li><li>Samuel E. Sewall</li><li>Julia Ward Howe</li><li>Robert F. Wallcut</li><li>John A. Goodwin</li><li>Addison Boyden</li><li>A.W. Merriam</li><li>Elizur Wright</li><li>James W. Dunphy</li><li>William H. Brewster</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1871-03-17,1871-03-18 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 17, 1871 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 18, 1871 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 38 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 23 </p> <p>Female signatures: 1 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 14 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: others, [females], [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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: that representatives in Congress adopt measures for the protection of lives and civil rights of loyal citizens in southern states </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>