The microfilm of Legislative Petitions can be borrowed on Interlibrary
Loan. Make certain that you know the county or city and the box number.
Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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Is the microfilm available for interlibrary loan?
Thanks.
Leslie Anderson Morales
Reference Librarian
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2420
(703) 838-4577 x213
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Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
>The Legislative Petitions Database is a finding aid to the petition
>collection. You have to view the petitions on microfilm, but often
>times a docketing on a petition will indicate whether the petitioner
>succeeded or failed. If enactment of a law was the object of the
>petition (which was usually the case, whether to obtain a divorce, move
>the courthouse to some other person's property, create a new county,
>increase a veteran's pension), then the quickest way to ascertain the
>outcome is to search the annual publications of the laws of each
session.
>
>Brent Tarter
>The Library of Virginia
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>Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at
>http://www.lva.virginia.gov
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>Pardon me if this is too naive of a question: I suppose it would take
>additional research to figure out whether the petition was granted or
>not? If the relief sought was a new law, whether the law was passed?
>
>
>Joe McCollum
>Knoxville, TN
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