Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of S.R. Herrick

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858381 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Pepperell Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint special committee on slavery Selected signatures:S.R. HerrickJohn MaceMary Bowers Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 31 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 Female signatures: 6 Other male signatures: 2 Unidentified signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males] 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.