To the Honorable Cave Johnson p m General of the united states
the undersigned your pertitioners would Respecfully Represent that a mail rout is necessary for the accommodation of the inhabitants living upon said rout said rout commencing at [?] st charles Kane county from thence to fairfield from thence [?] [?]ns from thence to Line post office from thence to Huntley Grove from thence to Brody Grove from thence pains point from thence to oregon city ogle county the distance is about fifty five miles that there’s but two post office on said rout the Line post office Joseph shaw p m Dekalb County supplied from avon and pains point office Mr stinson post master supplied from sycamore the inhabitants on this Rout have suffered serious inconvence by the nun establishing of a mail rout as above set forth and post office at a more conveint distances most of the inhabitants on said ^this^ rout living from ten to fifteen miles from a post office and your pertioners would Request that a mail rout should be established as soon as may be on said rout and in duty bound would ever pray
Russel Huntley
J M Jewell W G Harvy Williams
Constant Reynolds Charles Morgon
George W [Ferguson?] Patk Keane
William D Street Ziba Morgan
B W Rathbone John Mulberry
Elijah Cooley W Bowen
D Biggers Dexter Pease
[?] Reynolds T. C. Wetmore
[Mills?] Stuart Nathan [Bothrop?]
[?] D Earl
M H Dimick P[?] B Earl
[?]Helleston James Pasley
Wm [?]
A S Helleston Elihu Hill
Joseph Hiland F Love
John Hilands Eli B. Gilbert.
Lyman B King G W Love
E J S Fairbanks Steven Pan[?]y
Henry Trumun Ephm Spalding
Justin Rolph Henry Hopkins
Orlando Carter Jno Coakley
Jared Carter Joshua King
John Duffey William Clemans
Clark Carter John Drummond
Smith. D. Baldwin Charles Dugdi[?]l
J [?] Chapman John Whiteman
J. R [?]itt[?]
John M Goodell L C Burben
Robert Blake Lenmon [Hintly?]
James Blake Henry Barber
Clark L Barber Lyman Barbee
[Bemig?] Shurburn George W Lyon
Nathaniel Lilly Jonathan Lyon
Boyd Wilkison C. L. [?]
John Wilkison Jos Clark
Washington Paddock Zelina Felt
Obadiah Merrill stephen Gledden
Oysott Lyon Levi Howard

Handwritten Document Signed, 1 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,