DOI: 10.7910/dvn/jkto5
title: Passed Resolves; Resolves 1857, c.064, SC1/series 228, Petition of Levi Baker

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670608"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670608&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Yarmouth &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the judiciary; committee on claims &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Levi Baker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Hall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phillip Vinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Orin Howse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1857-02-10,1857-02-12,1857-03-05,1857-03-06,1857-03-11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 10, 1857, where it was laid on the table, printed, and re-opened on February 12, 1857 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the Senate on March 5, 1857 and reported back and referred to the committee on claims and concurred in the House on March 6, 1857 and reported back on March 11, 1857 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 4 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, printed, re-opened, referred, received, reported back, referred, concurred, reported back &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: undersigned, ship master, part owners of the Nymphus C. Hall, ["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;: Manuscript &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: Appropriation to enable these men to test the constitutionality of the search law in Virginia, act, Captain, deprived of his vessel, inspection, certificate, fines, suits, bonds, sureties, payments, coaster, city of Norfolk, Dennis, schooner, master, owner of one half, cargo of fish, cargo of corn and fruit, New Bedford, without any disguise or concealment, having on board no colored person, gentlemen, New York, passengers, searching officer, port, seized, violation, certificate of inspection, merchants, legal counsel, oppressive and injurious, coasting trade, violation of the constitutional rights of the citizens of the United States, penalty, rights, application, forty merchants of Norfolk to governor of Virginia, representative of the rights and interests of all that class of persons, compromise, assert his ultimate rights, tribunals, supreme court, condemnation, inferior court, court of appeals, relief, writ of error, litigation, expensive, services of proper counsel, Richmond, Washington D.C., payments, for the benefit of a large class of their fellow citizens, resist an unjust and burdensome discrimination against the whole coasting trade, appropriation, attorney general &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1857, c.64, passed May 19, 1857 &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;