should prohibit the forwarding of
mails and the delivery of letters on Sunday, individuals and the
Government will be obliged to resort to such temporary
arrangements for transmitting intelligence as their respective
exigencies may require; and such temporary arrangements, while
they will be attended with increased expense, will be productive
of far greater inconvenience and disturbance to the religious
public, than can justly be complained of under the present
system.

_Resolved_, That a committee be appointed, who shall be
instructed to prepare a memorial to Congress expressive of the
views of this meeting, whenever in their opinion, circumstances
shall render it expedient to present such memorial; and such
memorial shall be submitted by them for approbation, at a meeting
to be called for that purpose.

_Resolved_, That the committee appointed in conformity to the
foregoing resolution, shall be authorized to call future
meetings, to correspond with citizens of other towns, and
generally to take such measures as they may deem expedient for
the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of this meeting.

The following gentlemen were appointed a committee to perform the
duties specified in the two last resolutions, viz. George
Cleveland, Dudley L. Pickman, Willard Peele, Perley Putnam,
Philip Chase, Stephen White, Gideon Tucker, Nath'l Frothingham,
Stephen C. Phillips. The Committee was authorized to fill any
vacancies that may occur in their number.

_Voted_, That an attested copy of the proceedings be published in
the several newspapers in this town, and in one or more of the
newspapers in the city of Washington, and that an attested copy
be also forwarded to the Post Master General.

The meeting was then dissolved.

PERLEY PUTNAM, _Chairman_.
BENJ. KITTREDGE, _Secretary_.

[B] _Extract from Regulations respecting Post Offices_.--"At Post
Offices where the mail arrives on Sunday, the office is to be kept
open for the delivery of letters, &c. for one hour or more after
the arrival and assorting of the mail; but in case that would
interfere with the hours of public worship, then the office is to
be kept open for one hour after the usual time of dissolving the
meeting for that purpose."