Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Horace James

<p>Petition subject: Trial by jury </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670487">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670487</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Harrison Bliss, Worcester; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Horace James</li><li>Caleb Wall</li><li>A.G. Walker</li><li>Thomas Drew</li><li>Thomas Wentworth Higginson</li><li>Effingham L. Capron</li><li>Isaac Mason</li><li>John Milton Earle</li><li>Gerry Valentine</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-20 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations </p> <p>Total signatures: 144 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 144 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal voters, [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: Asking for a jury trial for any person who is claimed to owe service; signature of man who escaped from slavery, fugitive slave, and signature of Gerry Valentine, involved with Native American Party in Worcester </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 </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>