Public petitions. Return of the number of petitions presented and printed in the five years ending 1858, with the total number of signatures in each year; and the average number of public petitions presented and printed, and signatures; also, abstracts of the sums paid for printing, folding, &c., reports and appendixes, and indexes to reports and appendixes on public petitions in the year 1857-8; and of the sums paid for printing folding, &c., distinguishing the cost of paper, of the reports and appendixes, and indexes to reports and appendixes on public petitions, for five years ending 1858, showing the total and average expense (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, no. 346, of session 2, 1857). 1858 [electronic resource].