Petition for Stricter Obscenity Laws, 1887

The petitioners cite court rulings that held that the Comstock Laws did not cover a writing, no matter how obscene if it be deposited in the mails in a sealed envelope.

Petition for Stricter Obscenity Laws 1887

Anthony Comstock formed the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 to enforce and strengthen obscenity laws. This petition appealed for laws covering items mailed in sealed envelopes.

National Archives, Records of the United States House of Representatives