Passed Resolves; Resolves 1840, c.12, SC1/series 228, Petition of George M. Rice

Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935181 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Worcester Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Lincoln, Worcester; committee on claims Selected signatures:George M. RiceBenjamin P. Rice Actions taken on dates: 1840-01-21,1840-01-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1840 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 22, 1840 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Requesting reimbursement of expenses incurred in recovering the liberty of Sidney O. Francis, a colored boy, a native of Worcester, the son of free parents, kidnapped, kidnapping, carried away for the purpose of being sold into slavery, mayor of Fredericksburg, Virginia, John Dickenson, Pearly Shearer, Dickenson Shearer, Elias Turner, Palmer, Benjamin Clark, suspicious circumstances, evidence, detention of abductor, personal sacrifice, released, restored to his parents, trial, expenses, time, labor, Resolves 1839, c.66, passed April 8, 1839, services, recovering any citizen of this commonwealth imprisoned in another state on suspicion of being a slave, remunerated, liberation Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1840, c.12, passed February 28, 1840 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.