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Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668981

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gloucester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frederick Barden, Newton; committee on the personal liberty laws

Selected signatures:

1. Luther D. Pettengill
2. James Knight Jr.
3. Joseph Hayward
4. T. Sewall Lancaster

Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-23,1861-01-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 23, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on January 24, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 491

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 491

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: 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. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861

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.