Senate Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 11633, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edward W. Watson

Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858208 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures:Edward W. WatsonDavid H. FreemanMary B. AlexanderBourne SpoonerIchabod MortonJohn M. Goodwin Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-28,1845-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1845 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1845 and concurred Total signatures: 65 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32 Female signatures: 26 Unidentified signatures: 7 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Clark's Island, Duxbury, Plymouth, Boston Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11633 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.