We the undersigned inhabitants of the village of Brooklyn & vicinity in the County of Jackson & State of Michigan would most respectfully represent, that we labor under great disadvantages & inconvenience, in respect to our mails—which by the Established route, pass through our village only once a week East & west, and, then, from such points as to Cause great delay in the Conveyance of our mail matter, out and in, from those channels by which we are most nearly approached by the great mails through our state

Such a Mail being wholly inadequate to the wants of a reading intelligent community—and the business demands of a place of growing importance we have been compelled, consequently, to order a large amount of our mail matters through another Office (four miles distant) which has greatly curtailed the revenue of our own. To secure to ourselves those facilities, which the exigences of a business and enterprising Community demands we have maintained, for some time past, by individual subscription, an express between this place and Grass Lake, three times a week, at an expense [?]

By this express we are Enabled to get Mail matter from Detroit on the same day it is mailed there, and our Eastern and southern mail matter from five to seven days sooner than by the old established route in Mail matter from Boston New York and the City of Washington by means of our express reach us sooner than our own Coun County papers, published at Jackson, only fifteen miles distant. By the present mail route these pass us at Napoleon, only four miles distant, and then go a circuit of thirtyfive, and by the delays Consequent upon a tri-weekly & weekly route are from seven to ten days in reaching us [?]

We therefore petition that a Mail route be immdiately established from this place to Grass Lake a distance of only twelve miles. Communicating at the northern extremity with the Michigan Central Rail Road, intersecting the Clinton & Jackson Mail Route at Napoleon, & terminating at this place, (Brooklyn). also that the mail be carried three times a week, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays from Brooklyn to Grass Lake & back the same days, so that we may be possessed of those facilities of communication which the business & importance of our locality demands. and your petitioners will Ever pray &c