Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of Charles Thompson

Petition subject: For the repeal of the personal liberty laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668952 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Charlestown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Columbus Tyler, Somerville; committee on the personal liberty laws Selected signatures:Charles ThompsonTimothy SawyerEdward Lawrence Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-26,1861-01-28 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on January 28, 1861 and concurred Total signatures: 53 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861 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.