Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel Smith

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858757 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Harwich Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward Smalley, Harwich; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Samuel SmithRichard BakerThankful Smith Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-16,1861-01-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1861 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1861 and concurred Total signatures: 53 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25 Female signatures: 28 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Note on circulation; M.D. next to a signature Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw 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.