Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Alonzo Lewis

<p>Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858326">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858326</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Lynn </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frederick Robinson, Essex; joint committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Alonzo Lewis</li><li>Aaron Lummus</li><li>John Bailey</li><li>Aroline A. Chase</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06 </p> <p>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 </p> <p>Total signatures: 854 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 411 </p> <p>Female signatures: 359 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 18 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 66 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males] </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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 </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>