Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Jackson H. Pickering

Petition: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858332 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Salem Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frederick Robinson, Essex, joint committee on slavery Top signatures:Jackson H. PickeringEdward HooperHelen M. CoffinJohn CassellMercy CassellBets ey Blanchard Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1851 and referred to the joint committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 71 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33 Female signatures: 38 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [females of color], [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harv ard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.