House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1910, SC1/series 230, Petition of S.G. Howe [Samuel Gridley Howe?]

Petition subject: For a law to prevent and punish kidnapping Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005502 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis W. Bird, Walpole; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:S.G. Howe [Samuel Gridley Howe?]Samuel MayWalter ChanningFrancis JacksonSamuel E. SewallJoseph SouthwickWilliam C. NellThomas T. BouveGeorge William BondTheodore ParkerJohn W. Browne Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-24 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary. Total signatures: 12 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a committee appointed by a meeting at Faneuil Hall on the 24th of September last, committee of vigilance, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1847, Docket 1910 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.