House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 788, SC1/series 230, Petition of Sanford Leach

<p>Petition subject: Against the gag rule </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956371">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956371</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Newton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Sprague Jr., Plymouth; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Sanford Leach</li><li>Sereno Howe</li><li>Elijah W. Tucker</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-03-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 10, 1840 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence </p> <p>Total signatures: 27 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: members of the Newton Theological Institution, ["members of the Newton Theological Seminary"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: From the Newton Theological Seminary, religious </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 788 </p> <p>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.</p>