Your petitioners would respectfully represent that their town is situated on the Hamilton, Rossville Darrtown and Fairhaven Turnpike road, which commences at the town of Hamilton in the County of Butler and State of Ohio and runs North West nearly in a direct line to the City of Richmond in the County of Wayne and state of Indiana passing through the following ^places^ at ^each of^ which a Post office is now established viz Darrtown, Morning Sun Fairhaven ^ in Ohio ^ and Beechymire ^in Ohio^ and Boston in the state of Indiana, On this Turnpike road there is no mail rout established, though it is in full use and Messrs J & P Voorhees & Messrs Gilbert and Millikin have each a daily line of accommodation coaches running to and from each terminating point. The whole distance is Thirty six miles. Your petitioners therefore respectfully ask that the said Turnpike road may by law be declared and established as a post road, and that a daily mail be put thereon[...?]under such regulations as your Honorable body may in your wisdom think best to devise. Your petitioners would respectfully suggest that so much of the mail rout by which they are now served

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as lies to the Northward of Oxford Butler County Ohio may in the propriety and without public injury be abolished as the only Post office that would be left without a mail is Sugar Valley. This last named office is 5 miles S. West from the town of Eaton Preble County Ohio. and Six miles ^N.W.^ from the nearest point of the proposed rout and is surrounded by an intelligent and enterprising population who would feel aggrieved if their post office were abolished. To avoid any just cause of complaint a mail might (at a trifling expense) be taken from Eaton to Sugar Vally and back to Eaton once a week, which is all the mail accommodation they have at present. Your petitioners believe that the amount of mail accommodation asked for is not more than will be paid for by the income from postage. There are now received at our Post office about 150 weekly news papers and other periodicals exclusive of other mail matter and your petitioners have no doubt that the number will be greatly increased if mail facilities are increased. The amount of trade of our Village has for the [few?] last year been considerable—varying from $20.000 to $50.000 or more per annum, and such is the demand for intelligence on the state of the markets, trade and business generally that an express mail has been put upon the road, by which much of the

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legitimate mail matter is already taken from the Post Offices, and unless some relief is afforded by increasd mail facilities, that arrangement will will take the greater part of the business of carrying mail matter

The other Post offices ^places^ through which the proposed rout passes are surrounded by a population equally enterprising and intelligent with our own and will no doubt pay their equal share of the expense, and your petioners will ever pray &c.