Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Josiah Rugg

Petition: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858339 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Leominster Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Clark, Northborough; joint special committee on slavery Top signatures:Josiah RuggMira S. RuggLydia Sprague Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-07, 1851-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 7, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 174 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 154 Female signatures: 13 Other male signatures: 6 Unidentified signature s: 1 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [\"voters\"], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available 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.