To the Honorable, the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the Congress of the United States.
The Petition of the undersigned, Members of the Legislature, and officers of Government,
of the State of Mississippi, respectfully shows unto your Honor: That, that portion
of the Citizens of the said state of Mississippi, resedent on, and adjacent to, the leading road from the Town of Raleigh in Smith County, to
Ellisville, in Jones County, as will also, the citizins of said Towns of Raleigh & Ellisville, are in pressing need of additional mail facilities:
Your petitioners therefore, pray your Honorable body to establish a mail Rout, from the said Town of Raleigh, to via Smith’s and Fayetteville ^& Coates’ mills^ to Ellisville, to the end, that certain contemplated Post Offices, on, and at, the
ends of said rout may be supplied with the mails.
And as, in duty bound, your petitioners will ever pray &c.
Jackson, Mississippi, 6th Jany. 1848
| Jas E Harrison | D. Lipscount. Pres Senate |
| Robt S Green | A W Ramsay |
| A. H. Pegues | |
| Jas McDugold | R O Beene |
| O. R. Singleton | Wm P. Carter |
| J, V, Hodges. | Wm R Carmon |
| J Massie |
John J Pettus
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| Felix Labaune | |
| C C, Sharpe | |
| a. w Dabney | |
| John J. McRae Speaker of the House | |
| R. G Steele | |
| Geo. T. Swann. | |
| Richd Griffith, Treasr | |
| Price [L?] [Fael?] publish[?] of the mississippian |
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Petition of sundry citizens of Mississippi praying the establishment of a mail route
from Raleigh Smith Co to Ellisville in Jones County—State aforesaid
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Referred to the Committee on Post Office & Post RoadsA. G. Brown
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James
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Petition of the Legislature of Miss—praying for a mail Route from Raleigh to Ellisville.
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January 26. 1848 Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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Petition of Members of the Legislature of Mississippi, for a mail route from Raleigh,
Smith County, to Ellisville in Jones County.
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A. G. Brown
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 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