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Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Bourne Spooner

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Title Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Bourne Spooner
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5NIQ8
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670480

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Plymouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles O. Churchill, Plymouth; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

  1. Bourne Spooner
  2. Southward Barnes
  3. Harvey Weston

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-13,1855-02-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on February 14, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 231

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 231

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
concurred
received
received
referred
Printed
Charles O. Churchill, Plymouth; committee on federal relations
Bourne Spooner
Harvey Weston
Southward Barnes
citizens
legal voters
No
231
231