Senate Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 11633, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry I. Bowditch

Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858206 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry Wilson, Middlesex; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures: Henry I. Bowditch Joseph Southwick William C. Nell William P. Atkinson John Rogers Josiah Wolcott William Waterson Marjoram John J. Mitchell Bela Marsh William I. Bowditch Wendell Phillips Charles Spear Robert R. Crosby Henry J. Prentiss Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-16,1845-01-17 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 16, 1845 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 17, 1845 and concurred Total signatures: 35 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript : Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, West Roxbury, New Bedford, Holliston, Northampton, Quincy, Lynn, Stoneham Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11633 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.