Your Petitioners, citizens of Hardin and Allen counties, Ohio, would most respectfully represent to your Honorable Body that they are at present most unfavorably situated, in consequence of having no convenient mail facilities, by which a part of them are almost deprived of the inestimable benefits derived through the medium of the Post Office Department

That a part of them, citizens of the central southwestern part of Hardin County, are compelled to travel a distance of from 7 to 10 miles to arrive at a Post office; and citizens of Roundhead and South-western limits of Hardin, and South-eastern parts of Allen counties, sending or receiving letters or papers to and from Kenton (the county seat of Hardin) and the East, are compelled to suffer a mail delay of from 5 to 8 days, in consequence of the mail having to pass from Kenton south to Bellefontaine in Logan County, a distance of 24 miles; and thence northwest to Roundhead, 16 miles; making a total length of mail rout, 40 miles; (whereas the distance direct from Kenton to Roundhead is only 14 miles) and consequently, citizens of Kenton and Eastward are subjected to a similar grievance.

Your petitioners would further say, that Hardin County and especially that part extending from Kenton to Roundhead is rapidly settling with an active and tolerably enterprising population, and the want of a convenient mail facility is felt each succeeding day more and more grievously, and your petitioners would further say, that the establishment of a Post Rout from Kenton to Roundhead would prove no burden to the Post Office Department, as they honestly believe. They therefore pray the Establishment of a Post Rout from Kenton to Roundhead, in Hardin County, Ohio, and the Establishment of a Post Office at Forest, Hardin county Ohio, equidistant from Kenton and Roundhead, and the appointment of John R. Gunn Post Master,

and as in duty bound your petitioners will pray.