Passed Acts; St. 1862, c.44, SC1/series 229, Petition of William Ropes

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520841">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520841</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William B. May, Roxbury; committee on public charitable institutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Ropes</li><li>Albert Fearing</li><li>A.R. Thompson</li><li>A.M. Blasden</li><li>[George W. Blagden?]</li><li>James C. Dunn</li><li>Ezra S. Garrett</li><li>James Savagae</li><li>James Hayward</li><li>Thomas S. Mileau</li><li>B.C. Clark [Benjamin C. Clark]</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1862-01-18,1862-01-21 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 18, 1862 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and received in the Senate on January 21, 1862 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 11 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: subscribers, ["others"] </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: Massachusetts Colonization Society, colonize on the coast of Africa free people of color with their own consent, real and personal estate, [includes notes approving publication, certification of publication of petition in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Oliver Warner, secretary of state, Charles F. Dunbar, one of the proprietors of newspaper, witnessed by justice of the peace, and notice on application] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1862, c.44, passed February 28, 1862 </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>