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The Bralimin_s of 'Poona by their petition dated 27th February, 1856 opposed the measure and expressed their opinion that those who are in favour of the measure must not be Hindus.

The Poona petition throws light on the manner in which signatures were collected to the memorials to be presented to Government. It appear that one "Aba Bhusari" (a grocer) went round to collect the signatures and in token of having effected the collection, wrote his name at the left-hand top corner. Some of the overly circumspect signatories superscribed an endorse- ment, "signed as being against re--marriage" just below their signature, to ensure that the sig- nature pages were not attached to a memorial on some other subject. It is remarkable that the signature of collector "Aba Bhusari" has not appended his signature in the general catenna of signatures, probably because, not being a Brahmin, he had no need of any such law. Though the signatures are mainly in Devenagari and modi script, an occasional Telugu signature appears and the use of the Pei sian word "Bin" for "son of" was also common. The signatures on petitions emanating from Bengal were mostly in English or in Bengali, but an occasional "Shri Ram Dayal Tark Vachaspati" in Devnagari also appears.