Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Enoch Lewis

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858227 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Barnstable Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joint committee on slavery Selected signatures:Enoch LewisIsaac HodgesJuliet C. Lewis Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1851 and referred to the joint committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 360 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 239 Female signatures: 101 Other male signatures: 4 Unidentified signatures: 16 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated 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.