Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Eben Howes

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858714">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858714</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Dennis </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James S. Howes, Dennis; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Eben Howes</li><li>Dean Sears</li><li>Joshua Hall</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence </p> <p>Total signatures: 82 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 44 </p> <p>Female signatures: 34 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </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 1860, leave to withdraw </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>