Petition, July 20, 1840
Theme: Representation & Reception
Date: July 20, 1840
Type: Letter
Name: Petition
Originating Collection: Reproduction of item 605, Series 1081, Fonds 200, courtesy of City of Toronto Archives
Text in letter:
Petition, July 20, 1840, stating:
To his Worship the Mayor and the Corporation of Toronto. The subscribers of this humble petition represent to his Worship the Mayor, and the Corporation, that they have remarked with sorrow that the American Actors, who from time to time visit this City, invariably select for performance plays and characters which, by turning into ridicule and holding up to contempt the coloured population, cause them much heart-burning and lead occasionally to violence. They therefore respectfully entreat His Worship, and all those to whom the right pertains, to forbid in future the performance of plays likely to produce a breach of the public peace.
Your petitioners are, in all dutiful respect to you, Her Majesty’s devoted and loyal subjects.