Senate Unpassed Legislation 1854, Docket 13985, SC1/series 231, Petition of S. Snow

<p>Petition subject: Against new slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381180">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381180</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Saugus </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Clark, Northborough; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>S. Snow</li><li>Edward Hitchings</li><li>William H. Newhall</li><li>John Armitage</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1854-02-14,1854-02-18 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1854 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 18, 1854 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 55 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Essex county, remonstrate, remonstrance, passage of any act of congress organizing Nebraska or any other portion of the territory ceded by France to the United States which shall admit of the introduction of slavery into any territory from which it was excluded by the Missouri Compromise </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 13985 </p> <p>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.</p>