Senate Unpassed Legislation 1856, Docket 18580, SC1/series 231, Petition of D.D. Kelly

<p>Petition subject: For the repeal of the 1855 personal liberty bill </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666567">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666567</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Calvin P. Hinds, Boston; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to the bill concerning the rights and liberties of the people of Massachusetts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>D.D. Kelly</li><li>Benjamin Bayley</li><li>Edmund Snow</li><li>Henry J. Fowler</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1856-03-21,1856-03-24 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 21, 1856 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to the bill concerning the rights and liberties of the people of Massachusetts and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 24, 1856 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 41 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 41 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [many additional documents in folder] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18580 </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>