Senate Unpassed Legislation 1854, Docket 13960, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis B. Fay

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448952">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448952</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1854-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Low, Suffolk; joint special committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Francis B. Fay</li><li>Emery B. Fay</li><li>John J. May</li><li>Samuel Hull Jr.</li><li>George Merrill</li><li>Charles Spear</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1854-02-27,1854-02-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 27, 1854 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 28, 1854 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 47 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens </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: Reverends </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 13960 </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>