Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of John Marston

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670488">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670488</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Dorchester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Thayer, Boston; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Marston</li><li>Mary C. Marston</li><li>Sarah A. Thomas</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-07,1855-02-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 7, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on February 8, 1855 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 44 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 15 </p> <p>Female signatures: 18 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 1 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 10 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, others, [females], [other males] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 </p> <p>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.</p>