Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Velorous Taft

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858721 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Upton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry D. Johnson, Upton; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Velorous TaftGeorge E. GoreHarvey Ruggles Actions taken on dates: 1860-01-24,1860-01-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 25, 1860 and concurred Total signatures: 57 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Not sure on first petitioner's last name, basing it upon census records/historical houses in Upton Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw 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.