House Unpassed Legislation 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions, SC1/series 230, Petition of Gorham B. Howard

<p>Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950485">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950485</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: North Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: E. Loring Thayer, North Bridgewater; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gorham B. Howard</li><li>Rufus E. Brett</li><li>Henry A. Brett</li><li>Lyman Clark</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1873-03-05,1873-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1873 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1873 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 118 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 118 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: voters, ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: To rescind and annul the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions </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>