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Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455881

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the Constitutional amendment

Selected signatures:

1. Benjamin Rich
2. I. Ingersoll Bowditch
3. Samuel May
4. Samuel Appleton
5. Francis Bacon

Actions taken on dates: 1844-03-12,1844-03-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 12, 1844 and referred to the committee on the Constitutional amendment and received in the Senate on March 12, 1844 and concurred

Total signatures: 11

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: petitioners, ["merchants of Boston"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Boston merchants

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1844, c.111, passed March 16, 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.