Petitions for clemency were signed by 70, 000 people in Ireland and 10, 000 people in England.

In 1898 President of the United States William McKinley signed the treaty of annexation for Hawaii, but it failed in the Senate after the 38, 000 signatures of the Ku ’ e Petitions were submitted.

Petitions against the unpopular treaty had gathered 1, 900, 000 names

Petitions signed by California state voters equal in number to 12 % of the last vote for the office of governor ( with signatures from each of 5 counties equal in number to 1 % of the last vote for governor in the county ) can launch a gubernatorial recall election.

Petitions were launched in several areas, but only one received the signatures of 20 % of eligible parents, the level needed to trigger a ballot.

Petitions and signatures were gathered to be sent to Governor Herbert H. Lehman to ensure Marble Hill's status to remain part of Manhattan.

Petitions are commonly used in the U. S. to qualify candidates for public office to appear on a ballot ; while anyone can be a write-in candidate, a candidate desiring that his or her name appear on printed ballots and other official election materials must gather a certain number of valid signatures from registered voters.

Petitions presented to Council between March 30, 2005 and November 20, 2005 totaling 7, 380 signatures opposed the sale of the property, the destruction of the building, and the loss of much-needed public park and recreational lands.

Petitions require signatures equal to eight percent of registered voters to appear on the ballot for a law, or ten percent for a constitutional amendment ( see below ).

Petitions for war furlough required the signatures of all active members, the director of bands or other faculty member who was an honorary member of the fraternity, as well as the signature of the college or university president.

Independence First launched an e-petition through the Scottish Parliament website which gained over 1300 signatures but was subsequently rejected by the Public Petitions Committee in November 2006, voting six to three to note the position and close it with no further action.

We your Humble Petitioners Living at a great Distance from ye Center of the Towne Some of us nine or ten Miles and Consequently at a very great disadvantage in joining with them all Publick Town affairs, being encouraged Partly by our Living in that Part of ye Town that was Laid out for what was called ye upper Parish and Partly by ye Kind Reception our Request met with which we made to ye Town for a dismission but more particularly by our Confidence in your Honors desire to Promote ye Happiness of every Part of ye State Humbly Pray that Honors would take our Case into your Serious Consideration and grant that we together with all those Live in sd Upper Part may be Erected and Incorporated into a body Politick and Corporate to have Continuance in ye Name of Northfield with all such Powers and Authorities Privileges Immunities and Franchises with other Parishes or Towns in this State in General hold Enjoy with your Petitions as in duty bound Shall forever pray .”

Over the next seven years they lived comfortably in their rented flat in Chelsea, supported by Childers's salary — he had received promotion to the position of parliamentary Clerk of Petitions in 1903 — his continuing writings and, not least, generous benefactions from Dr Osgood.

In the autumn of 1910 Childers resigned his post as Clerk of Petitions to leave himself free to join the Liberal Party, with its declared commitment to home rule, and in May 1912 he secured for himself the candidature in one of the parliamentary seats in the naval town of Devonport.

Petitions on his behalf were presented to parliament, so strongly worded that the petitioners were committed to prison.

* Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions

Each House of Parliament has standing committees like the Business Advisory Committee, the Committee on Petitions, the Committee of Privileges and the Rules Committee, etc.

* 1st Vice Chair of the Committee on Petitions Michael Cashman MEP

* 1806 Remarks on the two last Petitions in the Lord's Prayer ...

One of the leaders in using the phrase, and in advancing the argument that slavery was a " positive good ", establishing the proper relation between the races, was John C. Calhoun, most notably in his Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions.

* Text of Calhoun's " Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions "

* Report of the Special Committee of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada, on the Petitions Against the Road Laws and the Office of Grand-Voyer, 1830

More recently, since February 2007, he has been chairman of the Primary Industries and Resources Standing Committee and the National Capital and External Territories Standing Committee, as well as being an inaugural member of the Standing Committee on Petitions which was established to receive and process petitions to the Federal Parliament from citizens and groups.

In the Petitions Committee, where he is first vice-chair, Michael Cashman has been working on the so-called Spanish Land Grab crisis .< ref >

* 1998-99-Member, Committee on Petitions Member, Committee on Petroleum and Chemicals

He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Petitions and the delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries.

On 13 June 2004 he was elected member of the European Parliament, and when the Parliament convened he was elected Chair of its Committee on Petitions.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

The second petition was considered by the Petitions committee on 15 March 2010.

Petitions were circulated against Bishop Basil at the Cathedral and on the Internet.

However, as it was seen to be desirable that Crown contractors could obtain redress, lest they be inhibited from taking on such work, the petition of right came to be used in such situations, especially after the Petitions of Right Act 1860 simplified the process.

He is also a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a substitute for the Committee on Petitions, a member of the delegation for relations with South Africa, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Canada.

Petitions can also be brought forward by any EU citizen on a matter within the EU's sphere of activities.

He is member of the European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Petitions, as well as the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China and a substitute member of the Committee on Environment and Public Health and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

In the period from 2004-2009 he was also member of the Committee of Petitions, and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, as well as the Delegation for the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

As a MEP, she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Petitions, as well as a member of the delegation to the EU – Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe.

* 1653: Petitions were lodged to try to stop the Duke of Northumberland's River from being reopened.

Petitions were a common form of protest and request to the British House of Commons in the 18th and 19th centuries, the largest being the Great / People's Charter, or petition of the Chartists.

On 16 June 2010 he resigned as Convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee after being overheard making comments about the physical appearance of a female member of the audience during a break in committee proceedings.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Petitions could be submitted to the editor ( as magistrate ) in full view of the community.

The Head of the Department of Petitions is charged with processing petitions and requests for social aid addressed the King, the Queen or other members of the Royal Family.

Petitions for the House of Lords to review the decisions of lower courts began to increase once again.

The House of Lords appointed a Committee for Petitions.

Petitions to the House of Lords did not have to seek reversal of lower court judgments ; often, petitions were brought directly to the Lords without prior consideration in the inferior judiciary.

Petitions and proposals were repeatedly submitted to the state legislature to issue paper currency.

Petitions were signed by residents and taken to the Town Board.

Petitions against senators Lena Taylor ( D ), Spencer Coggs ( D ), Mark Miller ( D ), Glenn Grothman ( R ), Julie Lassa ( D ), Fred Risser ( D ), and Mary Lazich ( R ), were unsuccessful.

Nomination Petitions can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Nomination Petitions can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Nomination Petitions ( for party members ) and Nomination Papers ( for Independents ) can be obtained at the Commissioners Office in the Snyder County Courthouse.

Petitions arrived at Downing Street, one after the other, for weeks.

Petitions submitted by the colonies were officially ignored by Parliament.

Petitions from enterprises concerned with the number of acquittals, such as those from the bleaching ground proprietors, forced a Committee to be set up in 1819.

From Petitions to Partyism: Antislavery and the Domestication of Maine Politics in the 1840s and 1850s.

Petitions for justice were normally addressed to the King and the Curia, but in 1280, Edward I instructed his justices to examine and deal with petitions themselves as the Court of King's Bench.

Petitions were passed around in all Paris neighborhoods to try and influence the government.