Passed Resolves; Resolves 1844, c.87, SC1/series 228, Petition of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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:10455880 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Concord Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Anthony Wright, Concord; committee on the amendment to the Constitution Selected signatures:Ralph Waldo EmersonLidian J. EmersonRuth EmersonEliza H. GallupJohn GarrisonFrancis BigelowWilliam WhitingAnne M. WhitingHelen ThoreauCynthia ThoreauJohn ThoreauPeter HutchinsonNancy HutchinsonJane ThoreauMaria ThoreauMary BlanchardPrudence Ward Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-06,1844-02-07 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1844 and referred to the committee on the amendment to the Constitution and received in the Senate on February 7, 1844 and concurred Total signatures: 259 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 91 Female signatures: 153 Unidentified signatures: 15 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Includes notes next to signatures 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.