DOI: 10.7910/dvn/eqpsh
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Alexander Foster

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: For Boston police to be appointed by the state &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858748"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858748&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; special committee on that subject &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary R. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Henshaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John C. Haynes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James M.W. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elbridge Sprague&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George C. Cabot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph A. Howland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Redpath&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis G. Cheever&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Everett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adams Twitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;L. Spooner [Lysander Spooner?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry A. Stone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George T. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Horatio Jenkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Buffum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George A. Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William L. Garrison Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George P. Bradford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph James Locke&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Loring Moody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Eldridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-11,1861-02-12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1861 and referred to the special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1861 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 181 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 120 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 4 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 57 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including [Acton?], Methuen &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;