Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Bourne Spooner

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670480 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Plymouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles O. Churchill, Plymouth; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Bourne SpoonerSouthward BarnesHarvey Weston Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-13,1855-02-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on February 14, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 231 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 231 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 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.