Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Elijah Hobart

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858726 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: South Hingham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel H. Whiting, Plymouth; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Elijah HobartMary W. GardnerCaroline Andrews Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-07,1860-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 7, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 8, 1860 and concurred. Total signatures: 82 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36 Female signatures: 40 Unidentified signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Petition text appears to be cut from a newspaper, includes directions above it Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw 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.