Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of Lewis Bates

<p>Petition subject: To define rights on railroads </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858173">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858173</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Taunton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lewis Bates</li><li>T. Carpenter Brown</li><li>George E. Shattuck</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 55 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 </p> <p>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.</p>