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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858371

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Georgetown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry H. Baker, Georgetown; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Charles E. Dorman
2. Paul S. Adams
3. Gilbert Hull

Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-30,1851-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 1851 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 291

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 176

Female signatures: 62

Other male signatures: 40

Unidentified signatures: 13

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Lead petitioner is not in the legal voters column

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162

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.