Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Alexander Foster

Petition subject: For Boston police to be appointed by the state Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858748 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; special committee on that subject Selected signatures:Alexander FosterWilliam B. BrownBenjamin F. RobertsMary R. WallcutJosiah HenshawJohn S. RockRobert R. CrosbyJohn C. HaynesJames M.W. YerrintonElbridge SpragueGeorge C. CabotJoseph A. HowlandJames RedpathHenry J. PrentissOtis G. CheeverWilliam EverettAdams TwitchellCharles K. WhippleJohn T. SargentL. Spooner [Lysander Spooner?]Henry A. StoneRobert MorrisGeorge T. GarrisonWilliam C. NellDaniel F. ChildHoratio JenkinsCharles BuffumEdmund QuincyGeorge A. NoyesWilliam L. Garrison Jr.George P. BradfordJoseph James LockeSamuel May Jr.John B. BaileyLoring MoodyCharles W. EldridgeWendell Phillips Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-11,1861-02-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1861 and referred to the special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1861 and concurred Total signatures: 181 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 120 Female signatures: 4 Unidentified signatures: 57 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including [Acton?], Methuen Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, 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.