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Re: LVA Legislative Petitions Database
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Leslie Morales <[log in to unmask]>
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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
http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/branches/lhsc.html


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?
>
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