We the undersigned subscribers being citizens of La Salle & Kendall counties, and living East of Fox River, would respectfully represent, that the country and villages on the East Bank of Fox River, between Ottawa [and?] ^in^ La Salle County & Oswego in Kendall County, are as densely populated as perhaps any part in the North of the State of Illinois, that Post Office privileges are highly appreciated, by most of the inhabitants and that without such privileges these homes are rendered nearly valueless, That the Post Office at Newark has been supplied by some cross mail, and mostly by a cross mail from Bristol in Kendall County being across Fox River, that by said cross mail the inhabitants and a large extent of country adjacent have been supplied, receiving letters and papers from Chicago on the East and from Ottawa on the West, in about as many days as it would require hours for a regular mail to pass, that the crossing Fox River is many times difficult, and often hazardous, that the delays and uncertainty of the mail, have made it necessary for any person doing business, to procure other means of forwarding information than said cross mail; that settlements on the East Bank of Fox River have been deprived the privilege of a Post Office as there was no mail passing up and down the Fox River, that no mail can be serviceable or profitable to the inhabitants on the East Bank of Fox River between Ottawa and Oswego but a mail running directly between Ottawa and Naperville via Norway, Newark & Oswego, that the market towns are situated either on Lake Michigan East, or on the Illinois West, that all the main roads are leading to said points That the circumstance of Fox River and the Timber on the East Bank of said River causes an extended settlement up and down Fox River, that one of the principal roads from Ottawa to Chicago passes up and down said River upon the East Bank via Naperville That your Petitioners highly approve of economy in the Post Office Department, but not to that degree which would render the institution useless. That your Petitioners really believe that such route through its Offices would pay its way, That your Petitioners would ask for a little indulgence while the country is yet new and its resources hardly developed, and would earnestly solicit and petition your honorable body, to pass an act creating a Post route from Ottawa via Norway, Newark, Oswego, to Naperville.