Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Joel Smith

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670471">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670471</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Leominster </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Cook II, Bellingham; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joel Smith</li><li>Frances H. Drake</li><li>Charles Pierce</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-24,1855-03-25 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 24, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on March 25, 1855 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 91 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 45 </p> <p>Female signatures: 35 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 6 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["others"] </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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 </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>