Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Cyrus Gale

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670482 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Northborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Littlefield, Foxborough; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Cyrus GaleJoseph AllenJoshua Johnson Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-17,1855-02-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 17, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on February 19, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 41 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 41 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 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.