Senate Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 11633, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel J. May

<p>Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858207">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858207</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Lexington </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry Wilson, Middlesex; committee on public charitable institutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel J. May</li><li>Nathaniel Mulliken</li><li>Sullivan Burbank</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-14,1845-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 14, 1845 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 15, 1845 and concurred with instructions to be printed </p> <p>Total signatures: 48 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39 </p> <p>Female signatures: 4 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["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: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Potentially some names from outside of Lexington </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11633 </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>