Your memorialists, citizens of the County of Daviess and State of Missouri, respectfully represent to your honorable body, That a large portion, of the citizens of northwestern Missouri and particularly your memorialists, endure much inconvenience, from the lack of such mail facilities, as are granted to a vast majority of our fellow citizens of the United States.

Your memorialists respectfully represent, that under the present mail arrangements, the packages of newspapers and letters for Gallatin the county seat of this county, meander from one county seat to another east of us, until they are, from two to four weeks in coming from St Louis, to Gallatin, a distance of 280 miles, under such arrangements, your memorialists are completely, [?], of the privilege of newspapers, public documents, and private intelligence within reasonable time, of their publication,

Your memorialists, therefore, in view of remedying, the bad arrangements of our mail facilites, solicits the attention, of your honorable body, to the establishment of a mail route from Brunswick Chariton County, by way of Utica Livingston County to Gallatin the County seat of this County, a distance of about sixty miles, which would be a branch of the great mail route from St. Louis to Fort Leavanworth, & which would give us our mail in about five days from St Louis, instead of three weeks, as under the present arrangements. In conclusion your memorialists, asks that, the above route, may be established, which will extend to our frontier county, in a reasonable degree those facilities and privileges, that a large portion of our fellow Citizens of other States, have.