Passed Resolves; Resolves 1857, c.064, SC1/series 228, Petition of David K. Akin

Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455890 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Yarmouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on claims Selected signatures:David K. AkinIsaiah CrowellBraddock Baker Actions taken on dates: 1857-03-09,1857-03-10 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 9, 1857 and referred to the committee on claims and received in the House on March 10, 1857 and concurred Total signatures: 101 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 101 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: undersigned, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Levi Baker, Captain, test the constitutionality of the search law in Virginia, act, deprived of his vessel Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1857, c.64, passed May 19, 1857 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.