JUNE 15, 1812
Mr. Rhea made the following report:
The Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, to whom was referred
the memorial of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, have had the same under consideration, and
do respectfully report:
That, heretofore, during the present session of Congress, petitions
of the Synod of Presbyters, and other citizens of several Christian
denominations, residing in the western part of the United States, were
referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads; that the
prayers of the said petitions were, in their object, design, and end,
similar to that of the memorial of the said reverend General Assembly
that your committee, after having had the aforesaid
petitions under consideration, reported thereon or the third day of
January last past:
" That, however desirable it would be to advise the adoption of such
regulations, relative to the carrying and opening ofthe mail, as might
meet the views of the venerable Synod of Pittsburg, and the other
petitioners, your committee cannot, at this peculiar crisis of the
United States, recommend any alterations in the law regulating the
Post-office Establishment, and do respectfully submit the following
resolution:
"Resolved, That the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petitions."
And the same resolution was afterwards concurred in.
Your committee further report, that there doth not appear any reason
to induce a change or alteration of the report made in the case of the
petition of the venerable Synod of Pittsburg; nor hath any reason
occurred to induce your committee to report on the memorial now under
consideration, different from the report on that petition; they do,
therefore,
respectfully submit the following resolution:
Resolved, That the memorialists have leave to withdraw their memorial.
All which is respectfully submitted.
(SOURCE OF INFORMATION: 12TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION, SUNDAY MAILS.
COMMUNICATED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 15, 1812, '"
American State Papers," Class X, Volume II, page 194. AMERICAN STATE
PAPERS Bearing On Sunday Legislation, Revised and Enlarged Edition,
Compiled and Annotated by William Addison Blakely, Revised Edition
Edited by Willard Allen Colcord, The Religious Liberty Association,
Washington D.C. 1911, pp 181-82)
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