To the Hon; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress
assembled,
The undersigned Petitioners residing in the County of Crawford Ohio, Would respectfully
beg leave to suggest to your Honorable body that in our opinion, the public utility
and probably the economy of the Post office Department requires that there be at your
present Session some remoddling of the Mail Routes in this Vicinity
And firstly that a new Route be established form Bucyrus in the County of Crawford
to Republic in the County of Seneca, to embrace the Broken Sword, Lykens, and Bloomville
Offices a distance of twenty two miles twice a week, the Route from Bucyrus to Tiffin
be discontinued and the Post Office at Poplar (the only one left without supply by
this arangement) be supplied by Special Route
That Route No [272?] from Republic to Uper Sandusky to be continued as here tofore except that the bloomville
Offices be left out thereby Saving four miles each trip, as well as the Special Route
from Lykens to Broken Sword which would ^be^ supersceded by the new Route
| Anson Brown | James Wickham | Simeon Peck |
| John H Lucas | D. F. Haige | Y. M. Smith. |
| M E Waller | O. L. Brown | H Mattison |
| Nilson Gorsuch | Joseph Dellinger | Stephen Flowers |
| William Hanks | Peter Ditchey | Cephas Postle |
| Almon T Ranysom | John Slee | Benj Sweet |
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Lykens Feb 19th 1848Hon,, Rudolphus DickensonDr SirYou will please present the petition and by so doing you will much Oblige many Citizens
of of Crawford County
Yours very respectfullyAnson Brown<Page 4>
free
Lykens O
Feb 19
Hon,, Rudolphus DickensonM. C.Washington CityD.C.Feb 19
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Ohio, Crawford Co.
Petition for a mail Route from Broken Sword to Republic in Ohio
Petition for a mail Route from Broken Sword to Republic in Ohio
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February 28. 1848.
Referred to the Committee on the P office & R. offices
Referred to the Committee on the P office & R. offices
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R Dickinson
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The service asked in the 2d paragraph of the within petition cannot be ordered until congress have declared the
road from Broken Sword by Lykens & Bloomville to Republic a post route, by an act
passed for that purposeS. R Hobbie
28. Feby 1848.
28. Feby 1848.
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Dickinson
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,