Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles Beecher

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858732 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Georgetown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Hood, Georgetown; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Charles BeecherJoseph H. SeaverWilliam BoyntonJohn BagleySamuel PlumerMoses Carter Actions taken on dates: 1860-01-30,1860-01-31 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1860 and concurred Total signatures: 577 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 261 Female signatures: 254 Other male signatures: 24 Unidentified signatures: 38 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [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: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Important documents in folder; Reverend Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw 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.