House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of John C. Ball

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029905 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Lock's Village Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Augustus L. West, New Bedford; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:John C. BallElijah Gardner Jr.Luther E. Cole Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-15,1859-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1859 and concurred Total signatures: 47 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25 Other male signatures: 22 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, [other males] 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: Are the signatures actually divided into legal voters? Some signatures copied Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected 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.