DOI: 10.7910/dvn/r79urn
title: Passed Resolves; Resolves 1906, c.65, SC1/series 228, Petition of William Wade Ryan

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Racial discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500521"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500521&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: New Bedford &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William J. Bullock, Bristol; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Wade Ryan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth M. Ryan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H.W. Haskins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James E. Reed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Walter F. Wiggins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edwin B. Jourdain&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John C. Guinn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Carter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaiah C. Dade&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel T. Frame&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Ayler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Corinne L. White&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward D. Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Milly Patterson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret Mann&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Georgiana Lamar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank T. Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert C. Munroe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William David Dunn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank H. Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lightfoot Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew M. Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Burnett D. Griggs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph S. Webster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1906-04-09,1906-04-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 9, 1906 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 10, 1906 and placed on file &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 36 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, placed on file &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 6 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 6 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, Virginia, includes addresses, rev., reverend, towns next to names including Fairhaven &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1906, c.65, passed May 7, 1906 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;