Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Reuben Emerson

Petition: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858354 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: South Reading Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward Mansfield, South Reading; joint select committee on slavery Top signatures:Reuben EmersonDaniel W. PhillipsElbridge Sweetser Actions taken o n dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 244 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 244 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters < p>Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Women started to sign the petition and were crossed out; "m.d."/doctor next to a signature Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archi ves 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.