We the undersigned being impressed with the importance of the establishment of a semiweekly mail route between Peru on the Illinois River, and Daysville on the Rock River by the way of Perkins Grove, the east end of Palestine Grove, thence by the west end of [Sulet?] Grove to Lee Centre, thence by the way of Franklin Grove and Lighthouse Point to Daysville would most respectfully request of your Hon. Body that route may be granted. The line of such a rout being about fifty miles in length will extend from its intersection of the Chicago and Springfield route at Peru the head of navigation on the Illinois River and the terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, through a tract of country possessing natural advantages inferior to none in the West, and embracing numerous large settlements which are being rapidly increased by immigration from the Older States, and would terminate by intersecting the Rockford and Dixon route, and also one that we understand is contemplated between Madison and Daysville and affording in its passage Post Office facilities to a number of extensive settlements that from their importance are deserving of them, but which from their situation at a distance from any mail route and now destitute.