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Petition to Prohibit Transportation and Opening Mail on the Sabbath, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 116
Scope and Contents Report of the select committee, to which was referred sundry petitions, remonstrating against the practice of transporting and opening the mails on the Sabbath, and praying a discontinuance thereof. March 1, 1817. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 9 p. Shaw 42736Includes (p. 2-6) the report of the postmaster general, dated General Post Office, February 20th, 1817 and signed on p. 6: R.J. Meigs, Jun. Recommendation that...
Dates: 1817