To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State in Congress Assembled
We the undersigned Citizens of the State of Iowa feeling the needsesety of additional
mail facilities would respectfully request the establising of a mail Rout from Mount
Pleasant to monro City via Deeds mill, Brighton and Oskaloosa in said State
| W H Wallace | John P. Grantham |
| Silas Deeds | Presley Saunders |
| James W. Porter | Jackson Lee |
| A. B. Porter | Elwood M Vantress |
| John F. Morton | Samuel Brazelton |
| J C Ray | Reuben Burr. |
| James A. Hill | J H Jenks |
| Thompson & Morton | Robert Wilson |
| Johns & Randolph | Ambrose Rueker |
| George Moore | H F Newlon |
| Elijah Beers | H Higgins |
| Wm P. Wightman | James Farmer |
| E. M. Paul | D N Cook |
| R Allen | John Vandyke |
| Wm A Calder | James Cooper |
| W P Brazelton | George Brown |
| Robert Miller | James Higgins |
| Jno S Bartruff | |
| A. J. Huestes | F A O Payne |
| D. Gilchrist | J D Ellis |
| Henry C. Saunders | S D Cook |
| E. A. Hill | D J H[?] |
| E Prince | John M. Tee |
| Walter Craig | William Calvin |
| J S Douglass | |
| Dani Daniel Stouton | David Patterson <Page 2>
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| A[ Launons?] | |
| S L. Howe | David Cowan |
| George Stickel | |
| Lamton Tucker | |
| P Burr | |
| [?]. C. Tiffany | |
| John Davis | |
| David Pickering | |
| Martin M Millan | |
| James Young | |
| Harvy Darneille | |
| John W Nason | |
| Adamson Bentley | |
| Wm D Allbaugh | |
| J Jeremiah Hewitt | |
| James Hamlin | |
| Martin Casaday | |
| R. M. Pickel | |
| John Burgess | |
| Garret Jeffery | |
| John Hanawalt | |
| John. L. Waitman | |
| Thos Hedge | |
| J. C Hall | |
| J S McClure | |
| John Barry | |
| John. Bowman | |
| A. McKinney | |
| B F Stephenson | |
| Hiram Messer | |
| [?] york | |
| Joseph Colwell | |
| Levy McCown | |
| Calvin Cooper | |
| Isaac A Shultz | |
| Willim karr <Page 3>
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| Beshaeer Bowman |
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Mr Wm Thompson EsqW Washington city &cTrenton, Iowa,
Jan. 21.
Jan. 21.
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Iowa
The Petition of Wm H. Wallace and 88 other Citizens of the State of Iowa, praying for the Establishment of a Mail Route from Mt Pleasant via Deed’s Mills, Brighton & Oskaloosa to Monroe City.”
The Petition of Wm H. Wallace and 88 other Citizens of the State of Iowa, praying for the Establishment of a Mail Route from Mt Pleasant via Deed’s Mills, Brighton & Oskaloosa to Monroe City.”
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February 15, 1848, Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.
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[...?] Refer to Post Office & P. Roads
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Wm Thompson
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,