We the undersigned citizens of the counties of Clark and Coles, in the state of Illinois, would respectfully represent, and show that the people of the towns and villages, and their surrounding adjacent country herein after named, are destitute of mail facilities and benefits, and pray your Hon, body to pass a law, establishing a mail route, from the town of York, in Clark County, via Melrose, Martinsville & Salisbury, to Charleston in Coles County, the distance of forty miles.

This route will connect at each end, with other important mail routes, and the populations thereon require the benefits of mail facilities, to those points, which cannot be supplied in any other manner.

And we your petitioners will ever pray &c