House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathan Hallet

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481499 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Yarmouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ezekiel Crowell, Yarmouth; special committee on the subject Selected signatures:Nathan HalletJohn HawesJames Knowles Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-20,1849-02-21 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1849 and referred to the special committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 21, 1849 and concurred Total signatures: 16 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 16 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A 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.