House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joel Emery

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481388 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Townsend Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Lane, Lunenburg; committee on that subject Selected signatures:Joel EmeryJames IngallsJohn P. ClementHannah ClementLucy SpauldingHannah Seaver Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-23,1846-01-24 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 23, 1846 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 24, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 24 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 15 Female signatures: 9 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["inhabitants"] 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: Note, circulated in one school district; newspaper Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815 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.