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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148855

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Scituate

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee; committee who have under consideration the subject of the willful destruction and casting away of ships and cargoes

Selected signatures:

1. Paul Merritt
2. Ward Litchfield
3. Martin Merritt
4. Isaiah Alden

Actions taken on dates: 1824-05-29,1824-06-01,1825-01-15,1825-01-15

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 29, 1824 and committed to report and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 1, 1824 and concurred and received in the Senate on January 15, 1825 and committed to the committee who have under consideration the subject of the willful destruction and casting away of ships and cargoes and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 15, 1825 and concurred

Total signatures: 20

Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred, received, committed, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Inhabitants of the town of Scituate

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: To alter and amend the law respecting stranded property, sea coast, vessels, wrecked, saving lives, property, plundering, theft, shipwrecks, stealing

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1825, Docket 8130

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.