Senate Unpassed Legislation 1856, Docket 18736, SC1/series 231, Petition of Calvin Cutter

Petition subject: Protection and relief for the citizens of Kansas Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858622 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Warren Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Harrison Bliss, Worcester; committee on Kansas Resolutions Selected signatures:Calvin CutterNelson CarpenterJohn H. Powers Actions taken on dates: 1856-02-29,1856-03-11,1856-03-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 29, 1856 and laid on the table and received in the House on March 11, 1856 and taken from the table and referred to the committee on Kansas Resolutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 14, 1856 and concurred Total signatures: 58 Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, received, taken from the table, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Kansas territory, repeated invasions, Border Men of Missouri, property and provisions destroyed, suffering for the necessaries of life, constitutional provisions for their relief, free state citizens, protection, six months, two volunteer armed regiments Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18736 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.