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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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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