Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9844, SC1/series 231, Petition of Cyrus Morton

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481611">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481611</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1835-12-15 </p> <p>Petition location: Halifax </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jabez P. Thompson, Halifax; committee on the subject thereof </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Cyrus Morton</li><li>Zebadiah Thomson Jr.</li><li>John Thomson</li><li>Ebenezer Wood</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1836-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1836 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof </p> <p>Total signatures: 83 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 83 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9844 </p> <p>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.</p>