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Petition subject: To allow access to courts

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381175

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: New Salem

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Whiting Griswold, Franklin; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. James Knight
2. Gardner Rice
3. Charles A. Perry
4. William Cogswell
5. Robert Cook

Actions taken on dates: 1851-04-18

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 18, 1851 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 9

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 9

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters of the town of New Salem

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: believing the denial of access to the courts of justice of the commonwealth to any citizens of the United States an infringement of their rights and liberties

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13236

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.