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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670493

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: South Reading

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Sweetser; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Eben Avery
2. John Gould
3. H. Seaver

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-28,1855-03-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 28, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on March 11, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 120

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 120

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.