We the undersigned inhabitants living on the rout from Willmington to Pontiac beg leave to Represent

That whereas we have been for years suffering for the want of mail facilities have petitioned repeatedly without affect and whereas we are living in a direct rout from Chicago to Springfield and whereas the mail is now carried from Chicago to Wilmington on said rout thence off to Indiania and also from Springfield to Pontiac on said rout thence off the course to Ottowa leaving this link of forty three miles out of the link of communication destitute of any advantage of mails, and whereas there is now living on said rout at Mazon Settlement over fifty families all from eight to fifteen miles distant from any post office and where as we believe said rout would immediately become a source of profit to the department and whereas we are resolved never to weary in well doing but to continue our prayrs from year to year until they are answered. We would therefore respectfully solicit your honourable body to establish a mail rout weekly from Wilmington in Will County through Mazon Settlement Grundy County to Pontiac in Livingston County all in Illinois