To the Hon Senate & House of Representatives of the United States.

Your Petitioner William R Thompson of Ann Arbor Washtenaw County & State of Michigan humbly shows unto your honorable bodies That on the 27^th day of October AD 1835 he made a contract with Hon Amos Kendall then Postmaster General to carry the United States mail for the term of four years from the first day of January AD 1836 from Detroit to Marshall a distance of 113 miles Tri-weekly & received therefor the sum of $11798.. $449.50 quarterly as per said contract no 1703. that said route soon after its commencement was run daily by four horse post coaches instead of tri-weekly as per the said contract. for the first two years from Detroit to Marshall & the last two years from Ann Arbor to Marshall. & in addition to said route he was compelled by said P.M. General to run a stage & carry the mail Tri weekly from Ann Arbor to Dexter & back & supply the post office at Scio village which places were directly off from route 1703. that during the time he run said route & particularly in the year 1837 his expenses were much more than his receipts being oblige to add to his teams & coaches to run the route daily. & paying high for feed & as high as $1.50. to $2.00 per bushels for oats &c. & that during the four years he suffered a great loss in running said routes daily instead of tri-weekly & in consequence of the contracts being let at so low a rate & by being obliged to run to Dexter a place not intended to be embraced in the contract situate six miles off from route 1703. & which has always been

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let as a seperate contract since.

And he prays that your honorable bodies may take the matter into consideration and grant to him such allowance as the nature of the case may admit & as equity & good conscience require