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Petition subject: Against the repeal of the Missouri compromise

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455889

Date of creation: 1854-01

Petition location: Northborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Clark, Northborough; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Cyrus Gale
2. Anson Rice
3. Warren Fay

Actions taken on dates: 1854-02-06,1854-02-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1854 and referred to the committee on that subject and received in the Senate on February 7, 1854 and concurred

Total signatures: 72

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 72

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1854, c.6, passed February 19, 1854

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.