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Petition subject: 3 items: no slavery, especially not without due process; no discrimination; to define rights on railroads to prevent insulting or assaulting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670565

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Provincetown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stevens Hayward, Middlesex; committee on the Constitutional amendment

Selected signatures:

1. Nathaniel Holmes
2. John Dyer
3. James Cook

Actions taken on dates: 1844-01-23,1844-01-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 23, 1844 and referred to the committee on the Constitutional amendment and received in the House on Janaury 24, 1844 and concurred

Total signatures: 40

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 40

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"], ["inhabitants"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1844, c.87, passed March 15, 1844

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.