Resolved that the committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire
into the expediency and propriety of repealing so much of the 13th section of the
act of the third day of March 1847 entitled an act “to establish certain past Routs and for other purposes” as prohibits editors and publishers of newspapers from sending their papers to subscribers,
by mail, free of charge or postage
within to the distance of thirty Miles from the place of pubication, and that said Committee
report to this House ^upon that subject^ at its earliest convenience
J. D. Cummins
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Mr Cummins
Mr Cummins
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Res.
Cummins
Cummins
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For repealing so much of the 13th
Sec of the 3d March 47 as prohibits editors &c from sending their papers by mail free of charge.
agreed to.
agreed to.
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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB,