Passed Resolves; Resolves 1844, c.87, SC1/series 228, Petition of Nathaniel Holmes

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:Nathaniel HolmesJohn DyerJames 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.