The undersigned Inhabitants of the counties of Will and Iroquois in the state of Illinois respectfully represent that the rapidly growing importance of the Section of the Country we inhabit in business & population in our judgement claims of the National legislature an increase of Mail facilities in Opening new channels of intercourse between the interior and the great commercial thoroughfare of our state, the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and to this end we pray, your Honorable body’s to Establish a mail route between Joliet Will county Illinois and Lafayette in the state of Indiana, and Your Petitioners as in duty bound &c &c