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Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668904

Date of creation: 1861-01-12

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Cary, Foxborough; committee on the personal liberty laws

Selected signatures:

1. Calvin Fisher Jr.
2. Amos A. Wiley
3. William Cowell

Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-29,1861-01-30

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on January 30, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 165

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 165

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Notes next to signatures, two texts

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.