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To the Congress of the United States:
The undersigned, citizens ofRichlandcounty, Ohio, respectfully ask the passage of a law by Congress, for a Daily Mail Route from Pittsburgh, Pa., down the Ohio River by Steamboats to some convenient and suitable point, thence west through New-Lisbon, Canton, Massillon, Wooster, to Mansfield. We are assred by competent authority that contracts will be taken for the conveyance, during eleven months of the year, on so much of said route as requires steamboat transportation.
The steady and regular increase of the business and resources of the great west require increased mail facilities, and we respectfully but earnestly ask Congress to grant such an augmentation of the mail service, as will enable, not only the enterprising business man, but community generally, to enjoy the benefits of a Daily communication. The revenues of the Post Office Department, we are persuaded, will be considerably augmented under such an arrangement.
A J Endly John Barton
J. Parker Wm Kew
J C. [Frair?] J W. Abernethy
John Early S. Abernethy
Thos Paisley A. R. Patterson
John. W. Pugh John McCoy
S. J. Robison John King
J J Lovee
Wm [Mcnulty?] Samuel Baker
Samuel McHibber
C. F. Smith H M Killip
M. J. Phelps E. B. Fairbank
B. S. Runyan D [Runges?]
J S Simmons P. Bigelow
E. Wilkinson John Wood
J. H. Meagly Wm Y. Bruin
I. H. Wigle W. S. Hickox.
Jacob Steruch David Bushey
H Endly Robert Conn
J P [Meg?] J M Rowland
J Welden James E. Cox
David McCullough
E Shepard I. W. Lowry
T W Strong N C McCullough
P B Cornwall
francis H [Ammer?] I. H. Platt
N A Reicheneker Jakob. [?]
H, Maize
T. J. Roberts Jacob Kahler
John A Butler John Rickets
John Benney Solomon Wood
J. R. Weldon Jr Henry B. Horton
S Prentiss Jno. H. Charles
W. Akers Phillip Burnett
Jacob Chandler John Platt
G. F. Mitchell
E. B. McGlaughlin John R. Palmer
William Richart John Wm Gibson
Wm H Beard Isaac Callin
W. J. Richart Joseph smith
P L Haven Isaac Wheeler
J. H. Heldman J. P. Cunningham
Timothy Hinson William Perry
John McMann Semple Ross
David [Hi?] John Windligher
George Watson Miles Spaulding
John Wolf Thos W Cullen
John [Aungsh?] [?] [?]
Isaac Ferguson Wm Daniels
Harrison Ferguson Jacob Hammer
R H Burgl
James Dunsher
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Ohio.
The petition of 192 citizens of Richland Co Ohio asking the Establishment of a daily Mail route from Pittsburg Pa to Mansfield Ohio
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January 4, 1848 Referred to the Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads
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Com on the Post Office & Post roads
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J K Miller

Partially Printed Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,