Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of Seth Crowell

<p>Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668869">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668869</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1861-01-22 </p> <p>Petition location: South Dennis </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alpheus Hardy, Norfolk; committee on the personal liberty laws </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Seth Crowell</li><li>Obed Baker</li><li>Joel Nickerson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-05,1861-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate in May, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the House in June, 1861 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 69 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 67 </p> <p>Female signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [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: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861 </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>