Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of Lewis Holmes

<p>Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668948">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668948</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1861-01-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Mitchell Hooper, Bridgewater; committee on the personal liberty laws </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lewis Holmes</li><li>Horace Ames</li><li>Frederick Crafts</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-16,1861-01-17 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on January 17, 1861 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 163 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 163 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters </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: 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>