Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin P. Chute

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858407 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Ipswich Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Girdler II, Manchester; joint special committee on slavery Selected signatures:Benjamin P. ChuteJosiah CaldwellGeorge HaskellJames CaldwellJoseph H. CaldwellTyler Caldwell Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the House 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: 39 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, ["voters"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 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.