House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Z.H. Howe

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481464 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Amesbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: R.H. Williams, Norton; joint special committee on that subject Selected signatures:Z.H. HoweWilliam NicholsMoses SawyerFrederic Sargent Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-15,1849-03-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 15, 1849 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 16, 1849 and concurred Total signatures: 21 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 21 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [payment] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A 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.