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Petition subject: Against the gag rule

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956371

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Newton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Sprague Jr., Plymouth; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Sanford Leach
2. Sereno Howe
3. Elijah W. Tucker

Actions taken on dates: 1840-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 10, 1840 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 27

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: members of the Newton Theological Institution, ["members of the Newton Theological Seminary"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: From the Newton Theological Seminary, religious

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 788

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.