Passed Resolves; Resolves 1844, c.111, SC1/series 228, Petition of Benjamin Rich

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:Benjamin RichI. Ingersoll BowditchSamuel MaySamuel AppletonFrancis 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.