Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Curtis Chamberlain

Petition: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858369 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Southborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Lovett Fay, Southborough; committee on the subject of slavery; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Top signatures:Curtis ChamberlainWilliam Co llinsLucy Chamberlain Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-11,1851-02-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 308 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not ide ntified as non-legal): 149 Female signatures: 133 Other male signatures: 15 Unidentified signatures: 11 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents 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.