become our indispensable duty to prosecute all, who wilfully
violate the laws with respect to the Lord's Day.

And we hereby request all persons, to abstain on the Lord's Day
from travelling, from worldly business and amusement, and thus
relieve us from the painful necessity of prosecuting for a
violation of the laws of the State.

[_Signed by the Tithingmen of Concord, N.H. Salem, N.H. Bradford,
Ms. Andover, Reading, Tewksbury, Beverly, Manchester, Hamilton,
Ipswich, and Wilmington._]

Aug. 6, 1814.

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BOSTON JUNE 1.--At the meeting on Monday last, the town of Boston
evinced its good sense by voting to postpone the choice of
_Tythingmen_ till the first Monday of March next. We venture to
assert, that in no district in the universe, of the extent and
population of Massachusetts, is the Sabbath more decently and
_sincerely_ observed.

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Law against keeping barber's shops open on Sunday morning in Salem in
1804:--

SUNDAY LAW IN SALEM--BARBERS' SHOPS 80 YEARS AGO.

Correspondence of the Salem Gazette.

BOSTON, Aug. 5.

About 1804 your Selectmen ordered that after a given date no
barber's shop should be kept open on Sunday morning. There was no
appeal from their mandate. The fatal last Sunday arrived; the
customers of the esteemed Benj. Blanchard, whose shop was at the
upper part of Essex street, opposite the Endicott and Cabot
mansions, came as usual to have their hair tied; it was the epoch
of queues, and it was necessary to their aspect in church that
their back hair should be artistically bound with ribbon and
their heads nicely pomatumed, even though, like Bonaparte, they
shaved their own beards. This last Sunday it was observable that
each gentleman, in his turn, after being barbered, instead of
hurrying off as usual, resumed his seat. As the second bell began
to ring, the last customer was accomplished, and the whole
company rose from their chairs, filed out into Essex street,
formed a line in front of Mr. Blanchard's shop, and gave three
rousing cheers; then, like Burns's "Twa Dogs, each took off his
several way," some to Dr. Barnard's North