Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel May

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670485 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin H. Davis, Fall River; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Samuel MayWendell PhillipsJoel W. LewisFrank G. BrownWilliam Lloyd Garrison Jr.George T. GarrisonAaron A. BradleyJohn Q. AdamsAbby May AlcottLouisa May AlcottWells Brown [William Wells Brown?]William C. NellEffingham L. CapronOtis G. CheeverGeorge W. PutnamDaniel O'Connell Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-01,1855-02-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 1, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on February 2, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 166 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 107 Female signatures: 14 Other male signatures: 22 Unidentified signatures: 23 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated 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.