House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2157, SC1/series 230, Petition of L.B. Bliss

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481431">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481431</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1848-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Wilbraham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Smith, Wilbraham; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>L.B. Bliss</li><li>John Carpenter</li><li>Elisha Burr</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1848-03-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 27, 1848 and referred to the committee on that subject </p> <p>Total signatures: 37 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 37 </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157 </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>