To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States

The petition of the undersigned citizens of Berks and Montgomery Counties in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Respectfully Sheweth that owing to the change of circumstances and various other causes they labour under disadvantages for want of a Mail Route from Boyerstown to New Hanover, ^Frederick &^ Schwenks’ Store to Perkiomen Bridge, a draft or plot whereof is herewith presented And that if the proposed route from Boyerstown to Perkiomen Bridge were Established there would be many advantages and conveniences conferred on the citizens of the said Counties and the public generally which it is impossible to Enjoy under the present arrangement of the mail routes in their vicinity, That said Boyerstown which is in said county of Berks and the other above mentioned places which are in said county of Montgomery, are connected with routes already Established, but that they would be productive of many benefits which they are at present incapable of producing if they were formed into a route as above proposed

They therefore humbly pray your honourable bodies to Establish by Law a Mail route as above mentioned from Boyerstown by New Hanover, ^Frederick^ and Schwenks’ Store to Perkiomen Bridge a distance of miles And[?]