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Petition subject: To define rights on railroads

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858174

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Groton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George S. Boutwell, Groton; committee on railroads and canals; committee on the subject thereof

Selected signatures:

1. Luther Boutell
2. George W. Bancroft
3. Sarah E. Dickson

Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-15,1842-01-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1842 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1842 and concurred

Total signatures: 96

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 34

Female signatures: 38

Unidentified signatures: 24

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Abolitionist wafers

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057

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.