Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Calvin Whitney

Petition: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858358 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Westminster Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; special committee on the subject of slavery Top signatures:Calvin WhitneyJohn HeywoodHuldah B. Whitney Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-05,1851-03-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1851 and referred to the special committee on the subject of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 108 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53 Female signatures: 55 Identifications of signatories: inh abitants, legal voters, other persons, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealt h, 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.