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

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