The undersigned memoralists citizens of Jasper ^& Newton^county^s^, respectfully ask leave to represent to your hoⁿ bodies that they labour under great inconvenence for want of such mail facilities as (not only) the growing (but present) importance of the country justly entitle them to expect. That they live in a section of the state that is in every particular strictly agricultural—the occupation of the citizens being principally stock raising & from the very nature of their calling it is highly important to their interests they should know the state of the market at the earliest possible opportunity. In order to represent this matter more clearly & to present the claims of your memoralists in its propper light before your honourable bodies they should ask leave to make the following representation. During last Spring when least it was expecte–immediately after the U.S. Arms had been triumphant at Buenavista—when all were expecting an early adjustment of our Mexican difficulties, a demand was occasioned for cattle at Independence & Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri frontier to supply the quarter masters department. The farms of your memorialists were well stocked with that article but in consequence of the tardiness of the mails their cattle was purchased by speculators & jobbers from in & about Independence for much less of their real value & within 150 miles of the Market. The undersigned attribute it to the tardiness of the mails alone that a few men a very few were enabled, to realize fortunes off of the hard earned industry of the country. Your

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Memoralists would represent the above as being only one of the many inconvenience under which they labour in consequence of the want of propper mail facilities They are of opinion that a country producing an amount of stock far greater than most portions of ^Southern^ Missouri is entitled to such mail facilities as will keep them advised at the earliest moment of any change in the market favorable to their interests & be a preventative in future from their being imposed upon by speculators & sacrifizing their property.

Your memoralists would further state that they rarely if ever, are in receipt of the St Louis mail under ten or 14 days, when under an arrangement they propose they will receive it in from six to 8 days

In consideration of the premises above set forth & the interests your memoralists feel in the news of the day—in receiving their papers pamphlets documents &c in a reasonable time they are induced to ask of your honourable bodies the passage of an act establishing a semi weekly mail rout from Boliver in Polk county via Greenfield Dade county, Oakland Laurence county, Carthage Jasper County, Union Grove to Neosho the county seat of Newton County. Your memoralists would represent that by establishing the proposed route many sections of the country could be accommodated with mail facilities with but little expense to the department by cross & connecting routes In conclusion your memoralists would respectfully ask of your hoⁿ bodies as early consideration of this Memorial as is convenient & they will even pray &c