Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Jarvis Lewis

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858347 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Waltham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint special committee on slavery Selected signatures:Jarvis LewisWilliam FarwellMary A. Farrar Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-21,1851-02-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 22, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 67 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51 Female signatures: 16 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 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.