Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of James L. Alger

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481660 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Lynn Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Essex; committee on the subject Selected signatures:James L. AlgerHenry RhodesAaron ButterfieldHiram WestWilliam AbbotJohn TraskHannah AllenRebecca Rich Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-15,1843-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 15, 1843 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 16, 1843 and concurred Total signatures: 331 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 310 Female signatures: 13 Unidentified signatures: 8 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["citizens"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [female signatures separated in one section and not separated in another section] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312 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.