Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edward Y. Perry

Petition subject: To define rights on railroads Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858141 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Hanson Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Abel G. Duncan, Hanover; committee on railways and canals; committee on that subject Selected signatures:Edward Y. PerryJob LutherMary B. Perry Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-17 Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1842 and concurred Total signatures: 33 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14 Female signatures: 18 Unidentified signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [note: I have noticed on a few petitions that it appears that the legislature cut the petitions to their current shape after they were sent to the committees] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 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.