Senate Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 12027, SC1/series 231, Petition of Walter F. Channing

Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381164 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George T. Bigelow, Suffolk; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures:Walter F. ChanningJohn A. AndrewJohn W. BrowneRobert F. WallcutCharles K. WhippleLouis Dwight Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-16,1847-02-17 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 16, 1847 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 17, 1847 and concurred Total signatures: 6 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: members of the executive committee of the Boston Society for the aid of discharged convicts Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1847, Docket 12027 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.