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Petition subject: Gag rule

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455454

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gloucester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Eleazer Boynton, Gloucester; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Jacob Bacon
2. George Clarke Jr.
3. John Ellery

Actions taken on dates: 1838-04-09,1838-04-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 9, 1838 and referred to the committee on slavery and laid on the table in the Senate on April 10, 1838

Total signatures: 59

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 59

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Protesting the "gag rule" resolution of December 21, 1837 and arguing for the right to petition

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.75, passed April 23, 1838

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.